A cataclysmic explosion of violet energy surged outward, swallowing the entire battlefield in a blinding flare.
The air warped, distorting the space itself, and within the swirling storm of purple fire and darkness...
They began to emerge.
Then...
The earth shook.
A deafening crack split through the land as an enormous clawed hand erupted from the ground near the edge of the battlefield.
A second hand followed, digging into the scorched earth as a colossal figure began to pull itself free from the ground below.
Then another.
Across the battlefield, two monolithic beings... far larger than the stone guardians summoned by Ji Shuang began to emerge from the depths of the land.
The Paragons had returned.
The first to rise fully was a towering humanoid behemoth, nearly 500 meters tall and its body was forged from obsidian, as streaks of molten crimson pulsed through its jagged flesh like veins of lava.
