The devastation wrought upon the Ashen Ridge was sickeningly.
Sunny stood at the precipice of the shattered obsidian valley, his pale features frozen in a mask of chilling apathy.
The Orthodox Paladin phalanx, previously a gleaming bastion of extreme Yang-Fire, had been entirely reduced to a churning crater of liquefied flesh and shattered radiant armor.
Standing perfectly still amidst the bubbling gore was the Iron-Forged Ghoul Ape. The towering, dark-metal skeleton was entirely coated in a thick layer of boiled blood. Its necrotic, green eye sockets flared with violent, unstable energy. It had explicitly utilized its Marrow-Shattering Resonance to bypass the Paladins' holy shields, vibrating their internal organs into bloody soup.
Clutched within the Ape's massive, metallic fingers was a violently pulsating, golden-hued organ. It was the Sovereign-tier Abyssal Corrosive Core, forcefully ripped from the chest cavity of the fallen Orthodox Commander.
