[VOLUME 13: THE PRIMEVAL ASCENSION][ERA: THE POST-DIVINE AGE][LOCATION: THE PRIMEVAL SANCTUARY - APEX]
The descent of the Pantheon did not come with the howling winds or the chaotic blizzard of the pass. It came with a suffocating, unnatural silence.
Twelve true deities landed on the outer rim of the obsidian crater. They were towering, terrible figures clad in armor forged from compressed starlight and hardened nebula. They had no faces beneath their gleaming, blank visors—only the cold, unfeeling judgment of the cosmos.
At the center of the crater, sitting upon the shadowy altar, Elara's breath hitched. But the terror that usually accompanied the presence of such overwhelming divine power simply... wasn't there.
