Author's Note: Unedited Chapter
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Gustav stood at the edge of the newly formed crater on Planet Humbad, the air around him still crackling with residual energy.
The world, already desolate and broken, now bore the mark of his power, a scar across its surface where he had obliterated everything in the surrounding area. Dust hung in the air, caught in the strange, stagnant winds of the planet, but beneath the chaos of destruction, something stood untouched.
At the very bottom of the crater, gleaming in the dim, ashen light, was a statue.
Gustav's eyes narrowed as he observed it, noting its perfect, unmarred surface. The statue seemed impossibly out of place among the ruins of the planet, as if it had been preserved through eons of devastation.
