The shadowy forest came alive with movement, the illusionary creatures that Zara had summoned creeping closer, their twisted forms barely discernible against the dark backdrop of the warped landscape. Their eyes glowed a sickly green, and they moved with an unnatural, jerking motion, their limbs long and spindly like nightmares pulled from the depths of someone's deepest fear.
Pyris stood still, his eyes narrowing as he sized up the approaching horde. "And here I thought we would play mind games, perfect!"
He could feel the pulse of their dark energy, a chilling coldness that crept along his skin like ice, trying to worm its way into his senses, to slow him down. But Pyris wasn't an ordinary man. He smirked as he let his Elemental Sovereign's Aura flare to life around him, his very presence bending the space around him, reshaping the forest.
