Chapter 7 — Final Confrontation
Months passed beneath the Bloody Moon.
The world had changed.
Cities emptied. Governments collapsed. Humanity watched the sky in silence, waiting for the next sign of the Eclipse Sovereign.
But somewhere far from civilization, a different power continued to grow.
Aren Solvayne had not forgotten their first battle.
He trained relentlessly, pushing his body and power beyond every limit.
The light within him burned brighter each day.
Because he knew the truth.
The next time they met would decide everything.
And that day finally arrived.
A barren battlefield stretched across miles of cracked earth.
No cities.
No civilians.
No witnesses.
Only destiny.
Raun Veyrath stood calmly at the center of the wasteland, his coat shifting in the cold wind beneath the red sky.
Across the horizon, a blazing star appeared.
Aren descended from the sky surrounded by golden fire.
The ground trembled as he landed.
His power had grown far beyond their previous encounter.
Raun studied him silently.
"You've become stronger."
Aren's eyes burned like miniature suns.
"I didn't come here to prove that."
Golden energy erupted around him, expanding like a solar storm.
"I came to end this."
For a moment, the battlefield went completely silent.
Then Aren unleashed everything.
Light exploded across the sky.
His body rose into the air as massive wings of golden energy spread behind him.
Not just power—
But his lifespan.
His very existence.
Aren was burning his life itself to create something greater.
A miniature sun formed above his hands.
The heat alone caused the earth below to crack.
Mountains in the distance trembled.
Oceans far beyond the horizon stirred violently.
This was no ordinary attack.
This was extinction-level power.
Aren raised his arms and brought the star crashing down toward Raun.
The sky turned white.