The Umbral Star dimmed. Then the world tore itself apart. Tsunamis swallowed coastlines. Earthquakes split cities. Mountain peaks crumbled into themselves. Across the Sea of Death, yawning fissures opened and slammed shut in violent rhythm. The sand sea vanished in an instant, devoured by surging walls of earth. Geysers erupted in random places, spearing hundreds of feet into the air.
Even Hurricane City, perched like a crown atop its sky-piercing peak, was not spared. The mountain groaned and shook, and a third of its summit sheared away, tumbling into the abyss below. It was the same everywhere—every land, every race, every living thing believed the world had reached its end.
The cause was singular.
One of the nine suns that spanned the sky began to retreat… until it vanished altogether.
