CHAPTER 231 — WHEN SOVEREIGNS DEFY HEAVEN
The sky above the shattered city had become something unnatural. Clouds no longer drifted; they twisted violently, pulled into spiraling currents by the overwhelming forces colliding above the skyline. Far below, entire districts burned while evacuation convoys pushed civilians toward the outskirts of the city and helicopters circled the disaster zone, though even they were beginning to retreat farther away from the epicenter of the battle.
Because above the city Heaven itself had arrived. Six radiant rings burned across the sky like newborn stars, each one slowly descending through the storm clouds. Their light was not warm and carried no glow of life. It was sterile, precise, the kind of light that erased things.
