Shi Ming landed gracefully despite his injuries, his scholarly robes billowing in the morning breeze. Blood trickled down his face from a gash above his temple, staining his collar crimson. The devastation of Crimson Moon City spread before him - buildings reduced to rubble, streets torn apart, fires spreading unchecked.
Above, more debris from Azure Mind Academy rained down. Books and scrolls fluttered like wounded birds, their pages scattering across the broken landscape. The screams of the injured mixed with the crash of falling stones.
Near the Blood Prison's entrance, a Skull Sect soldier lay motionless. His helmet had split open like a ripe melon, crushed by a massive chunk of masonry. Dark blood pooled beneath his head, seeping into the cracked stones.
