In the first month of the year 2025, Earth changed forever.

  Monsters.

  Not the kind whispered about in bedtime stories. Not the shadows lurking in the corners of one’s imagination.

  Real. Towering. Unstoppable.

  Winged creatures that blotted out the sun, their screeches a prelude to despair. Colossal beasts whose every step cracked the earth, turning cities into graves.

  Mankind, armed with its greatest weapons, fought back.

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  But bullets only scratched them. Bombs barely slowed them. The weapons that once dominated battlefields were nothing more than firecrackers before devils of destruction.

  Humanity teetered on the edge of extinction.

  And then, amidst the chaos, a voice descended upon the world—

  The Tribunal.

  A decree. A judgment. A challenge.

  It did not weep for humanity. It did not offer salvation.

  It demanded they fight.

  Against creatures immune to steel and fire. Against an apocalypse beyond human comprehension.

  Against death itself.

  And those who answered that call—those who clawed their way through blood and despair, refusing to kneel before the trials—

  Were rewarded.

  Strength to tear monsters apart. Magic to rewrite the laws of nature. Swords that burned brighter than the sun.

  Power, not to save humanity—

  But to fight for survival.

  Yet, even with these gifts, even with warriors who could split mountains and summon storms—

  Hope still perished.

  Mankind, once rulers of the world, became nothing more than echoes in the wind.

  And Earth?

  It was no longer theirs.

  Humanity fell.

  Extinct.

  …But fate is never so simple.

  In the depths of despair, within the ruins of a future lost, the threads of destiny twisted once more.

  And someone—returned.

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  UPCOMING NEXT - CHAPTER 1 - The Returned.

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