Summer in the Black Forest was lively—full of noise and excitement. It was both the season of mating and the season of the hunt.
Orion woke from his slumber to the sounds of Rolan grunting and huffing outside his tent. He'd been back in Blackstone City for nearly a month now, and ever since his return, the city seemed to have been injected with new life—changing day by day.
"What was it Arch Elder mentioned last night, about wanting to activate something?"
Orion was still a bit groggy. Reaching over to the animal skins beside him, he noticed Lilith and Lysinthia were gone.
"Where'd they run off to so early?" he mumbled, yawning as he tried to stand up.
All of a sudden, a chill flickered across his forehead, and a spark of lightning burst from right between his eyebrows.
Orion froze in surprise—then chaos broke out.
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
