The earth shattered, Degonris endured the devastation as landmasses tore apart and collided, gaping chasms appearing in several regions, their unfathomable depths like evil eyes spying on the sky; in other places, massive rock spires pierced through the land, revealing the grandeur of the fractured Degonris.
The trembling was like an enraged dragon roaring in this expanse of heaven and earth.
Within the Castle of Lostar, a sudden change occurred.
"Ah!!!"
Joshua's scream rang out during his ritual, Karen fell to the ground, her body smeared with fresh blood, but this blood was not hers.
Just as Joshua was about to embrace Karen and incidentally drink her blood, a ghastly wound suddenly split open across his chest, diagonally from the right to the left hip. It was like a fierce slash, nearly severing the new vampire king in two. Within the rend, blood cascaded like a waterfall, and Joshua howled, clutching his crumbling frame, his strength draining away with his blood.
