Out of the Void

It had been 5 years since the Wandering Titan had attacked Sacred Valley. During this time Cradle had grown increasingly unstable beasts of the Void had been coming out of cracks and fissures in the ground and in space, half of the world was in chaos. On the other side, our friends were blissfully unaware of what was happening elsewhere. In a small shed in the outskirts of the Desolate Wilds, something was coming. Lindon finally was able to bring back dross but the changes to Dross himself was still unknown.

"Dross where are you are you there" Lindon called out "I'm here," Dross said

Lindon let out a sigh of relief and he felt something comfortingly settle into his head where it had been empty before.

"Apologies that I wasn't able to help you sooner," he said.

"Ehh it's fine I didn't feel a thing it was kinda like before the "Realization Cascade" he replied "

Wow, your mind has gotten a lot bigger since I've been gone, what are you guys now and where are the rest of you," Dross asked?

"I'm now a proper Sage and Yerin is a proper Herald too. Also, Mercy left to return to her clan and so did Eithan and he took Ziel with him. Little Blue left with Orthos to find something to do, and he should be back soon. But I don't know what they are now when they left they were all Overlords except for Eithan and Orthos who stayed. At this point, Orthos is almost peak Underlord. Yerin is trying to find the limits of moonlight bridge and how it works." he said

"That's a lot of progress how long have I been out, on second thought scratch that what's that above you?" he asked

Lindon's brow furrowed and he looked up while he did he thought to himself what is dross talking about nothing of much importance had happened since the battle for Sacred Valley. The Monarchs had been out of contact but that should be expected they had far more important things to deal with than themselves. The true reason that the Monarchs had been out of contact was that they were dealing with the void beasts on the other half of Cradle. Something thing had escaped and was heading right for him. Not because as he thought that he wasn't important enough to get their attention. As he looked up he felt something pulling him to whatever was above him. What he saw shocked him it was a dragon made out of darkness, he felt a resonance with it. He knew immediately what it was it was it was a creature of the void and it hungered to end all.

And it said

"Join us"

and all turned to black