Suddenly The ground trembled with every thunderous stride the beast took—each step sinking deep into the soft, blackened soil, leaving steaming craters in its wake. The trees swayed as if cowering, their twisted branches reaching out like hands desperate to escape the chaos that followed. The air was thick—almost electric—with hatred and raw magic.
"You're mocking me!" the beast roared, its voice cracking through the forest like lightning. Its muscles tensed beneath the swirling darkness that cloaked it, and it raised its right claw, long and gleaming like dark blades, as it lunged forward in a blur of motion.
The obsidian golem met the charge head-on, each of its heavy steps crushing the earth beneath like stone drums. Its right arm shimmered, the surface shifting and reforming—molten lines of blue energy carving down its forearm until, with a flash, the limb hardened into a blade. The two forces collided mid-charge.
