---- Then we''ll be vulnerable, Adrian said bluntly.


    But if those monsters reach the capital, it won''t matter how many men we have stationed here.


    They''ll tear through us like wildfire.


    Edric nodded, though the tension in his face betrayed his doubts.


    Until Dom gets up Calm down Adrian.


    We will counter this- We can''t calm down Dom.


    They areing.


    Adrian bellowed.


    We''re on the verge of war.


    They''reingnot in hundreds, but in thousands.


    And they have only one aim- destruction.


    Adrian ces his hand on Dome shoulder and nods Call Doradora, Tixie And other Crets.


    We will be needing those who are loyal to us and who have faught this with us before.


    Dom''s eyes widen and panic fills the meeting room.


    ---- But why? What...


    what are you saying.


    Who areing- And that''s when Adrian deres.


    His tone clipped Father.


    He''singwith an army of monsters.


    Not just to reim the darkness but to steal the Light itself.


    And if we don''t fight back right now? There will be nothing lefi to save.


    Gasps erupted around the chamber.


    Panic and disbelief rippled through the room: And Adrian''s hands clench into his fists as he turned to the council, to dere Prepare for war to the end.


    ---- Chapter 428 6 months Later The Land of Light was no longer to same, it has changed.


    For the worse.


    Thend once resplendent with golden fields and bustling viges under a warn gentle sun, nowy in barren wastnds, nketed by ash and shadow.


    The skies filled with vibrant hues, were perpetually shrouded in a stormy haze.


    The air itself felt heavy,ced with the stench of decay and despair.


    And the sun that rose every day, only mocked the hope for a better future.


    The Monsters had imed thend as their own, they roamed freely across thends, their glowing red eyes cutting through the gloom like embers of hellfire.


    Their distorted forms patrolled what had once been thriving human settlements, turning homes intoirs and farnds into hunting grounds Humanity, now a scattered remnant, was either in hiding or enved by these creatures to be taken to him ---- Shattered families, wandering loners, and fractured.


    resistance groups.


    Once the beings of light have clunged to the life in shadows.


    They live in hiding, their days spent scavenging and nights consumed by fear.


    Everyone has abandoned the beings of light, the werewolves and crets, and the must brutal one came from their very king.


    King Adrian.


    The former King.


    He had gone underground Left those few Crets and werewolves, in the darkness to find their own way.


    Meanwhile the threat of a self proimed new ruler, raided the world.


    The King of these monsters.


    Everyone has heard of him...


    the Doctor behind this evolution.


    The Leader of VOG.


    He wasn''t here yet.


    But he will be soon.


    Waiting for his monsters toy the red carpet of blood for him for his wee: