The island screamed.
The horizon burned.
Moon Island—once a tranquil crescent of coral and jade cradled by the southern sea was no longer the paradise sung of by sailors. The sky had split open, crimson lightning stitching through black storm clouds as if the heavens themselves were being torn apart.
Below, the ocean boiled. Great plumes of vapor rose where dragonfire met seawater, turning waves into geysers that clawed at the bleeding sky. The cries of men, steel, and beasts merged into one terrible choir.
The G.P.F. defensive bastion, once the pride of the Federation, had become a graveyard of glowing wreckage.
War-mechs, plated in aurasteel, lay scattered like broken idols. Plasma cannons drooped, their barrels melted. The once-green jungles that encircled the island had turned to a wasteland of glass and ash.
Master Leo stood at the center of it all.
His once-white robes were charred and shredded; blood and soot masked his face. Blue-white arcs of uncontrolled lightning snapped along his arms, crawling like living veins of fury. His eyes—pale storm-silver—were fixed upon the sky where the shadow of a god loomed.
"Formation Delta-Seven! All units fall back!" he Shouted into the comm-link, but the line fizzled to static.
"Command! Respond!"
"—coastal wall breached—Sector Four—"
"—Null-Source readings rising—containment breach—"
The voices dissolved into noise.
Overhead, General Rudin—the Dragon of the Black Spire—descended through a cyclone of his own making.
Each beat of his wings sent out shockwaves that crushed the air into walls of pressure.
His scales, obsidian edged with veins of lava, gleamed like a living volcano. When he opened his mouth, rivers of molten energy flickered between fangs larger than siege towers.
"Beautiful," Rudin's voice rolled like thunderclouds grinding against mountains. "Your Federation's pride, melting under truth."
Leo lifted his staff—the Trident of Rael—and slammed it into the earth.
Lightning erupted outward, forming a spherical shield around the central command point.
It lasted three seconds before Rudin's next breath shattered it like glass.
"Lady Anya!" Leo shouted through the roar.
The air trembled with the roar of the Dragon General's forces, but Lady Anya appeared like a shadow cutting through the chaos. She moved with unerring precision, her lithe frame encased in dark, polished (2nd tire Soul steel) armor that clung to her form without restricting movement—plates etched with jagged silver runes that shimmered faintly in the stormlight. The armor was elegant, almost ceremonial, yet undeniably lethal, reflecting both her status and her mastery of combat.
Her twin blades gleamed in her hands, their edges catching the sporadic flashes of lightning overhead. Even in the heart of battle, her long, midnight-black hair, braided tightly at first and then streaming loose, whipped around her shoulders, framing a face sharpened by determination. Storm-gray eyes scanned the battlefield, cold and calculating, capable of piercing through both armor and deception. High cheekbones and a firm jawline gave her an unyielding presence, while her lips, pressed into a resolute line, betrayed neither fear nor hesitation.
Every movement she made radiated controlled power: the tilt of her shoulders, the flex of her fingers around the hilt of her blades, the roll of her boots on the wet, scorched ground—all spoke of a warrior who was as beautiful as she was deadly. Even in the roar of dragons and the clash of steel, she was an island of poise and lethal elegance, a figure who could turn the tide of battle with a single, calculated strike
She spun her dual blades, Whisper and Murmur, their edges trailing sound-waves sharp enough to shear steel.
"I'm here," she said through gritted teeth.
Her voice trembled only from exertion, not fear.
She had already killed three lesser drakes; their corpses smoldered in the ruins behind her.
Rudin descended, claws gouging trenches into the earth.
Behind him, two Abyssal Drakes swooped in formation, vomiting streams of plasma across the fleeing soldiers. The ground exploded, sending men and armor into the air like ragdolls.
Anya leapt from cover, crossing the field in a blur.
She sliced through one drake's throat, violet arcs bursting as Whisper cut through scales thicker than fortress walls.
The beast collapsed, its death-throes collapsing the northern ridge.
The second drake turned, roaring—but Leo's lightning intercepted, impaling it mid-air.
It fell like a burning comet into the sea.
Still, Rudin laughed.
"Do you think your toys matter?"
He raised his claw, holding the Null-Source Anchor—a black crystal pulsing with inner red light, its surface etched in an alphabet that predated the stars.
Rudin drove it into the ground.
The sound was not of stone breaking, but of reality fracturing.
Every spirit vein screamed.
Blue-green energy shot skyward, twisting into dark red flame.
Anya froze mid-step. "No… That's—"
The island's qi field inverted; every source-node detonated in sequence, sending pillars of light and ash miles high.
All around them, soldiers clutched their chests and fell—drained of life as their spirit circuits collapsed.
Mechs shut down. Weapons turned to rust in seconds.
Anya's breath came sharp. "He's… killing the island."
Leo's voice cut through the storm, strained but resolute.
"He's reversing the flow—turning the leylines into anti-resonance!"
Rudin's grin widened. "Clever, mortal. You recognize extinction when you see it."
He unleashed his Annihilation Breath.
The world turned white.
Leo's lightning shield shattered instantly; the blast hurled him backward through collapsing walls.
He struck a broken tower, bones crunching, vision going black for an instant.
But his hands still moved. Instinct. Training. Will.
He forced the storm back into shape, conjuring chains of plasma that lanced into Rudin's chest.
The dragon staggered—barely.
He bared his teeth, molten blood spraying from the wound and hissing into vapor before it touched ground.
Anya was already moving.
She vanished into shadow-step, reappeared atop Rudin's shoulder, and plunged Murmur deep between scales.
The blade sank to the hilt.
Rudin roared, flinging his body side-to-side, the shockwave sending debris flying like meteors.
She held on, muscles screaming, armor shattering, until Rudin slammed his shoulder into a cliff.
The impact hurled her across the field; she rolled through molten rock, every inch of skin burning.
Her arm hung useless. Ribs cracked. But she rose again, spitting blood.
"Resisting," she snarled, "is all we've ever done."
Rudin's laughter echoed across the island. "Then die for your resistance!"
He charged, claws glowing with molten fury.
Leo thrust both hands forward, lightning arcing skyward before slamming down in twin bolts the size of towers.
They struck Rudin's chest—one, two, three times—burning through armor, staggering the dragon mid-charge.
But Rudin was ancient.
He twisted, tail whipping through the storm, striking the ground with a sound that erased all other noise.
The shockwave threw Anya and Leo aside like leaves.
All around, the last of the Federation's soldiers fought with dragons and died one by one.
Flamethrowers melted. Energy rifles misfired. Those who survived did so through instinct alone.
They were ants in the shadow of gods, clinging to hope that something—anything—could change the tide.
Anya crawled toward Leo, who was kneeling amid rubble, one eye swollen shut.
"Leo," she gasped. "We can't hold. The anchor's consuming the core."
He looked skyward through the smoke.
Above them, Rudin prepared another breath.
This one was not gold or red—it was black, threaded with silver.
A breath meant not to burn, but to erase.
Leo whispered, voice hoarse but unyielding:
"Then we die buying time."
And at that instant—
A single word cut through creation itself.
"Enough."
The word did not travel through air.
It moved through existence.
Flames froze. The ocean paused mid-wave.
Every sound collapsed into silence.
Even time itself seemed to wait for the next breath.
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•The Tremor of Awakening
The word rippled through existence.
"Enough."
It was not shouted.
It was spoken softly—yet it overruled creation itself.
The black fire in Rudin's throat flickered out like a candle before a storm.
His wings locked mid-beat.
The molten winds froze in their whirling chaos.
Flames turned still, hanging in the air like painted light.
Even the falling ash stopped between heartbeats.
A silence too vast for mortals filled the world.
Leo, half-buried beneath collapsed stone, blinked through blood and smoke. His lightning faltered and dimmed, reacting as if some greater storm had entered the field.
Anya's breath hitched. Her heartbeat—one moment frantic—slowed, steadied, then became painfully loud in the stillness.
The sea began to rise.
Not in waves. Not from motion.
It lifted—as if gravity had forgotten its purpose.
The waters around Moon Island swelled upward, forming translucent walls that encircled the shattered battleground. Beneath the glassy surface, something vast stirred—something that the world itself bent to accommodate.
A sound followed—a slow, sonorous thum that resonated in the marrow.
Then another. Thum. Thum.....
It was the sound of the planet's heart remembering its rhythm.
The dragons above roared in confusion, their instincts shrieking warnings beyond reason. Several tried to flee. They could not. Their wings beat uselessly against unmoving air.
Every law they knew—the pull of gravity, the flow of qi, the very concept of time—was being rewritten.
From the sea, a figure rose.
At first it looked like mist, shaped by the wind.
Then it solidified: a man, barefoot, clothed in a tattered mantle of fur and stone-gray cloth.
His hair was silver, long and wet, his face lined like weathered granite. His eyes were half-lidded, calm—yet within them churned the weight of mountains.
He stepped onto the surface of the water, and each step turned the boiling sea beneath him cold.
By the time he reached the shore, the air itself bowed.
Rudin's voice broke the stillness, echoing in fragmented thunder:
"Who… dares interrupt me?"
The old man's gaze shifted lazily upward. "You talk too much."
As he Speak...
The Null-Source Anchor deep in island Shattered.
Not with noise—but with denial.
The black crystal disintegrated mid-resonance, erased from all known states of matter and energy, as though the universe itself corrected an error.
A shockwave rippled outward—not destructive, but restorative.
Spirit veins reknit. The poisoned air cleared. The ocean stopped screaming.
Every Remaining soldier, every dragon, every elemental flame felt it—an ancient authority that predated gods.
Anya fell to her knees, eyes wide. "That… that's not possible."
Leo's cracked lips trembled as he whispered, "Domain Law… no. That's beyond domain…"
Rudin staggered back, molten eyes dilating. "No… that presence… impossible. You—!"
The old man brushed ash from his sleeve. "Still loud," he muttered, almost to himself.
"Who are you?" Rudin demanded, voice shaking between rage and disbelief.
The stranger tilted his head slightly, like a man trying to remember a dream. Then he sighed.
"Last time you saw me, you were smaller. And crying."
The dragon's pupils narrowed to slits. "No… You—can't be—"
"Borin," the old man said quietly. "Of Kaelthar."
The name struck like a hammer.
The air thickened. Even the spirit of the island paused. The wounded soldiers who could still hear trembled.
That name belonged to myth—one whispered in the forbidden archives of the Federation's deepest vaults.
Borin.
The Mountain Heart Sage.
One of the Twenty Noblesse who walked during the Age of Cataclysms.
Rudin's molten scales flared. "You—should have been sealed!"
Borin looked unimpressed. "You said the same thing last time you ran from Kaelthar. You've learned nothing."
The Dragon General roared, the sound cracking the silence.
He unfurled his wings and rose into the air, molten trails blazing behind him.
"All units—burn the island!" he commanded.
Above, the surviving dragon army moved in perfect formation—scores of titanic shapes circling, their cores igniting into radiant death.
Each dragon opened its jaws, gathering the abyssal energy of the Black Spire lineage.
The sky turned into a single glowing furnace.
Borin did not move.
He raised one hand.
His fingers traced a circle in the air.
"Technique of the Earth's Heart: Worldfold Step."
Reality bent.
The sky folded inward.
The dragonfire reversed direction.
The sea curved upward like a mirror reflecting creation.
And in that reflection, everything burned—the dragons, their flames, their arrogance.
When the light receded, half the army was gone—dissolved into motes of dust that fell like rain.
Rudin screamed, fury shaking the air. "You ancient fossil! You dare—!"
"Dare?" Borin's voice remained calm, but the island itself responded. "You think this world still tolerates your kind?"
He stepped forward.
Each step caused the ground to hum like struck metal.
Mountains rose where his feet touched.
Lava turned to stone.
The fractured ley lines sang back into tune.
Rudin lunged, claw descending in a burning arc.
Borin caught it—with one hand.
No sound. No struggle.
Only inevitability.
"You should have stayed under your master's shadow," Borin said softly.
He squeezed.
The dragon's claw shattered.
Obsidian shards rained down like meteors.
Rudin shrieked, wings flaring, and unleashed the Abyssal Flame Core, a supernova of compressed dragonfire that could level cities.
The blast enveloped Borin completely.
For a moment, the island glowed brighter than day.
When the fire cleared, Borin still stood.
The sea beneath him remained untouched.
He sighed. "Loud."
Then, almost regretfully, he raised his palm again.
"Technique of the Mountain's Breath — Third Form: Return to Stillness."
The world obeyed.
Sound died.
Motion died.
The dragon army froze midair, their flames extinguished as if time itself had bowed.
Rudin tried to move, but his body no longer listened. His molten essence cooled to black stone, cracking as his energy bled away.
"Balance," Borin said simply, "is not something you dictate."
He clenched his hand.
The world answered.
The dragons shattered—thousands of tons of scaled flesh and fire turning into dust that fed the spirit veins below.
The sky cleared.
Only Rudin remained, broken and kneeling amid the ruin of his army.
"You…old fool" he rasped. "You can't kill us all… more will come… The Gates—will open again…"
Borin looked down at him, eyes calm and ancient. "Then let them. The world remembers its guardians."
He turned away.
Rudin roared, gathering what remained of his essence into one final suicidal surge. But before he could strike, Borin's gaze flicked back.
"Technique of the Earth's Heart — Fourth Form: Grave of Giants."
A single pebble lifted from the ground.
He flicked it.
The horizon shattered.
Rudin's body detonated into molten fragments.
When the light faded, nothing remained—not scale, not soul, not shadow.
Only silence.
Borin exhaled once more. "Peace, at last." and took steps ..first step..2nd step....3 and vanished.....
The sea sighed in response.
The wind began to move again.
The world resumed.
All that remained of Moon Island was a ring of smoke and stone—and the memory of a word that had stilled creation.
Leo and Anya stood together amid the ruins, too stunned to speak. feel like both are watching dream with open eyes.
The lightning around Leo's arms flickered uncertainly before fading.
Anya clutched her blades, whispering, "He killed them all… with a breath."
Leo stared into the horizon where the old man had vanished into mist.
"Not a breath," he said. "A reminder."
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•The Report and the Whisper of the Past
The sea swallowed Moon Island before dawn.
From orbit, the satellite feeds caught only fragments of the aftermath — concentric waves spreading across the southern hemisphere, atmospheric qi distortion readings peaking beyond measurable scale. The entire island chain glowed for three minutes before disappearing beneath the ocean, leaving only silence.
Then the feed went black.
When the data stabilized again, nothing remained.
No island.
No dragons.
No Null-Source residue.
Only a perfectly circular vortex — calm, symmetrical, and cold.
The storm clouds had vanished as if erased from existence.
___________
•The Debriefing Chamber, W.N. Headquarters
Two days later, deep beneath the World Noblesse Headquarters, a steel door groaned open.
Master Lee stepped inside.
The chamber was windowless, circular, its walls lined with projection Screen's and data-scrolls suspended in midair.
The air hummed faintly with sealed qi — a place where even echoes required permission to exist.
Three holographic projectors flickered on, replaying distorted fragments from the final Moon Island transmission.
Smoke everywhere.A dragon's roar.A single human silhouette walking on water. Then static.
Master Lee stood motionless as he watched the loop repeat.
His face, usually a calm lake of unreadable wisdom, was unreadable still — but the faint pulse in his jaw betrayed the storm beneath.
At the table sat Director Marlow, Chief of Strategic Intelligence, his cybernetic eye whirring as it parsed the corrupted footage.
Beside him, a young analyst whispered a nervous prayer before the images froze on the frame of the old man standing upon the sea.
"Magnify," Lee ordered.
The image expanded — grainy, blurred by the interference of divine energy.
The man's face came into focus: weathered, scarred, calm.
"Borin"
Lee's fingers tightened on the edge of the table. He said nothing for several seconds.
Director Marlow exhaled. "The energy readings before blackout matched no known element.
No leyline resonance, no divine source, no arcane category.
It's as if the world obeyed a… different constant."
"Report from surviving units?" Lee asked.
The analyst swallowed. "Less than five percent extraction rate.
All surviving G.P.F. soldiers report identical phenomena: cessation of time, reversal of Null-Source decay, spontaneous material restoration.
Witnesses describe… auditory paralysis. They all heard the same word: 'Enough.'"
Silence stretched.
Then Marlow leaned forward. "Sir, this power level—if verified—exceeds SS by unknown orders of magnitude. We thought the Twenty Noblesse were myth. Are you suggesting this old man—"
"I suggest nothing." Lee's voice cut through the air like a blade.
"Continue."
The chamber lights dimmed. A holographic schematic of Moon Island appeared, reconstructed from residual spatial readings.
A crater — perfect in geometry, impossible in physics — occupied the entire map.
"This is the aftermath," said the analyst. "No residual Null energy. In fact, the area emits stabilizing resonance—a self-sustaining ley equilibrium. The ocean above it is motionless, undisturbed by storms. It's as if the island was rewritten."
"Rewritten?" Marlow repeated.
"Reality recompiled," the analyst said softly. "As if a higher law overrode the physical domain."
Master Lee turned away, hands clasped behind his back. "And the identity of the Old man?"
The analyst hesitated, glancing at Marlow, who gave a subtle nod.
"Voice pattern analysis from combat recordings… matches one name."
She tapped the control rune. A projection of an old, sealed dossier appeared.
File: BORIN OF KAELTHAR
Designation: Defender-Class Noblesse
Last Recorded Activity: Year 210 of the Divine Calendar – Northern Continent War
Status: Deceased / Missing in Frozen Abyss
Rank: SS-Class (unconfirmed upper limit)
Affiliation: Order of the Mountain Heart (disbanded)
Known Abilities: Earth-Law Resonance Manipulation, Qi Compression, Domain of Stillness, Law Distortion Field
Warning: DO NOT ENGAGE. Authority-level beyond measurable parameters.
Master Lee closed his eyes. The faint hum of the projector pulsed like a heartbeat.
When he opened them again, the room seemed smaller.
"I was there," he said quietly.
The analyst looked up, startled. "Sir?"
Lee's voice was calm, but the memory behind it was not.
"The northern campaign. Kaelthar. Three centuries ago. I was a junior operative then — a courier. I never saw him directly, only his aftermath. An entire invasion force… frozen. Cities turned to stillness. The mountains themselves bowed for three days."
He exhaled slowly, the memory pulling at old scars.
"The archives recorded it as natural disaster. It wasn't. It was him."
After the meeting, Lee dismissed the others and descended alone into the Vault of Forgotten Names — a place few living beings had ever entered.
Two guards in (2nd tire Soul steel) armor bowed deeply and stepped aside.
The great door opened with a sigh, revealing an ancient library carved from black stone, its walls engraved with runes older than civilization.
The air smelled of dust, ink, and divine silence.
He walked to the deepest alcove, where sealed tomes rested under crystal stasis.
One bore the mark of the Twenty Noblesse — a symbol of twenty interlocked circles surrounding an unbroken star.
He placed his hand on the seal.
The lock recognized his authority. The runes flared open.
The tome unfolded, pages whispering like ghosts.
Names glimmered faintly across the parchment — names lost to time.
Borin of Kaelthar.
Azure king.
Seraph Vale.
And seventeen more, each carrying the weight of a legend.
Master Lee traced the name Borin with one trembling finger.
Beside it, an annotation burned faintly in red ink:
"Defender of the North. Keeper of Balance. Witness to the Lord's Departure."
Lee's breath caught.
He turned the page.
A sketch — faded, hand-drawn — showed Borin standing beside a figure cloaked in golden lightning and fire.
The Lord of the Realm.
"Yao Shan"
Lee froze, his heart pounding. "So that's why you disappeared," he murmured.
Memories surfaced — old reports, whispers of the Lord's last battle,the scattering of his blood and sealing the gateway of A legendary Realm where Saints Parish and Gods Fall, He had thought them legends.
But Borin's reappearance meant those legends were no longer stories.
They were warnings.
He closed the tome with a soft thud.
_____________
The Call from the Council
The communication crystal at his belt pulsed.
Lee pressed it to his ear.
"Master Lee," came Lady Anya's voice, ragged but composed. "We've completed the evacuation. Federation command wants a formal briefing. They're calling it the Kaelthar Phenomenon."
Leo's voice followed faintly in the background: "They're asking if we can weaponize it. Idiots."
Lee's eyes remained on the sealed tome. "Tell them to bury the data."
"Sir?"
"Erase every copy. Every file, every fragment. If the Council knows what truly woke on Moon Island, panic will spread across the realms."
A pause.
Then Anya spoke softly. "You think he'll appear again?"
Lee looked toward the chamber's far wall, where a faint tremor echoed through the stone — as if something vast had stirred far beneath the ocean.
"He never left," he said. "He's just watching. Waiting for the Return the of Some one."
The Whisper in the Depths
Far below the sea, where Moon Island once stood, the waters were unnaturally still.
At the center of the silent vortex lay a single stone platform, carved with runes of the old Kaelthar Language.
There, in the shadowed abyss, a faint light pulsed — slow, steady, like a heartbeat.
From the dark, a whisper echoed.
It was not human, nor dragon.
It was memory.
"He has awakened. One of the Twenty walks again. The balance shifts."
The voice rippled through unseen dimensions, reaching the halls of sleeping gods and forgotten empires.
_________
And somewhere beyond the mortal realm, In the Edge of Devine Realm
Amid the endless starlit expanse,the Keeper of Forgotten Memories Mei Ling The Celestial Veil, sat upon the swing woven from threads of pure constellation light. Her form seemed sculpted from moonfire and divine essence — tall, graceful, almost unreal. Her skin held a soft, luminescent glow, like jade kissed by starlight. Every line of her figure spoke of divine artistry — slender shoulders, an elegant neck, and arms that looked as if carved from translucent alabaster.
A silver mask covered the upper half of her face, yet through its delicate lattice shimmered eyes that seemed older than the heavens — eyes that carried entire galaxies reflected within their calm depths. Her lips were soft, rose-colored, touched by melancholy, as if every breath she exhaled carried forgotten hymns.
Her hair flowed in waves of silken black and silver, drifting weightlessly around her like strands of night itself — moving even when there was no wind. A celestial robe of pale blue and gold draped around her, layered like the petals of a divine flower, each fold lined with faint constellations that pulsed when her heart stirred.
Even in stillness, Mei Ling's beauty wasn't mortal — it was the kind that hurt to look at, the kind that whispered of both creation and loss. She was divinity in solitude, watching the seals of eternity fade one by one.
Suddenly, startled from her thoughts, she raises her head and looks in one direction. far from the expanse of her eyes.
A very big Ancient Alter suspended in distorted space, far from the expanse of her eyes.
On the Alter a teleportation Rune of Crystals on it carved to many seals.
A Faint Golden glow emerges for a moment and a Seal vanish.
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•IN the farthest expanse of A sealed broken gate In Void Space.
Far beyond light and shadow, where sound itself becomes an echo of eternity, Lin Xia moved — a living symphony amidst the ruins of space. Her figure was both lithe and powerful, a dancer's perfection honed by grace and precision. Her every motion seemed to shape the void around her, drawing curves of light through emptiness.
Her skin gleamed like molten pearl, smooth and pale with a faint silver undertone, as if starlight lived beneath it. Long hair streamed behind her like a river of shifting hues — black at the roots, deep violet at the tips, with flickers of red when her movements grew fierce. Her eyes glowed faintly with twin rings of gold and crimson, brightening each time her steps struck the metallic asteroid beneath her feet.
Her robe — woven from living threads of void energy — changed color with her rhythm: blue in tranquility, crimson in aggression, white in the moments between breaths. The fabric shimmered like liquid aurora, revealing glimpses of her flawless form beneath — not in a mortal way, but like a reflection of beauty beyond reason.
Every turn of her wrist left trails of light, every step a sound of ringing metal — beauty and danger perfectly entwined. When she whispered her hymn, her lips parted like a prayer, and the void itself trembled.
Lin Xia was not just a woman — she was the rhythm of the cosmos, a melody that could unmake the stars if her heart demanded it.
Lin xia Dancing garcefully on a metallic Asteroid big enough thousand yards.
Suddenly, her dance steps changed۔ her Robe changing colours with her each step. Wherever his feet landed, clear footprints would form on the asteroid hard surface.
The sound of his footsteps echoed in the Void like a musical beat...
Like the sound of an iron Hammer striking with Rhythm on a hard metal surface.
A strange light began to shine in her eyes.
Lin Xia: Completely lost in her dance She Murmuring, "it should be my first step of Crimson sky hymn"
"Five Flames Shall bind the broken sky, Five bead shall hold till star shall die,when red meets dawn the blood meet Sea,My soul Shall wake Remember Me"
her Murmur spread through Void like thunder,
The beauty lost in her dance, unaware that the words that came out of her mouth had unleashed a fierce storm.
To be continue....