Cassie felt as though she were drifting through an endless ocean of nothingness.
There was no ground beneath her feet, no sky above her head, no wind, no sound, no sensation of warmth or cold. It was as if she had been cast outside the boundaries of the world itself, left floating in a silent abyss where even ti had forgotten how to move.
The darkness around her was not frightening.
It was peaceful.
Ancient.
Infinite.
And then, slowly, she opened her eyes.
For the first ti in what felt like an eternity…
Cassie could see.
The realization should have shocked her. It should have filled her with disbelief or joy or confusion. Yet strangely enough, none of those emotions ca.
Inside the dream, sight felt natural.
As though she had never been blind at all.
As though the endless darkness she lived with every day had only been a temporary veil covering sothing that had always belonged to her.
Colors blood before her eyes like flowing rivers of light.
Shapes ford.
The world awakened.
And then the vision began.
The Forgotten Shore appeared before her.
But it was not the ruined wasteland she knew.
It was alive.
The endless crimson sea still roared beneath the black heavens, and the towering crimson coral still pierced the skies like the remains of dead gods, but the shore itself was filled with life.
There were people everywhere.
Thousands upon thousands of them.
Stone roads stretched across magnificent cities built along the coast. Towering walls stood proudly against the sea winds. Lanterns illuminated the darkness with warm golden light, and countless voices echoed through bustling streets filled with rchants, warriors, children, and travelers.
The Forgotten Shore…
Had once been a thriving kingdom.
Cassie silently wandered through the vision like a ghost unseen by the living.
She saw children laughing while chasing one another across wide bridges.
She saw soldiers standing guard upon ancient walls.
She saw musicians playing soft lodies beneath moonlit balconies.
She saw ordinary people living ordinary lives beneath the crimson sky.
And sohow…
That felt more heartbreaking than anything else.
Because she already knew what this place would eventually beco.
Then suddenly—
The sky split apart.
A deafening sound echoed across the heavens like the scream of a dying world.
Every person below froze.
Fear spread across the kingdom instantly.
The crimson sea began to churn violently.
The heavens cracked open.
And sothing descended from beyond.
At first, Cassie thought it was a falling star.
A radiant object blazing through the skies.
But then she realized…
It had wings.
A colossal figure slowly descended from the torn heavens, its massive wings stretching so far that they seed to blot out the stars themselves.
Every feather shimred with impossible beauty.
Holy light radiated from its body like divine grace.
And yet…
Sothing about it felt profoundly wrong.
The being was beautiful beyond mortal comprehension.
So beautiful that rely gazing upon it made Cassie feel as though her soul were trembling.
But at the sa ti, it carried an overwhelming sense of terror that twisted her stomach into knots.
It was divine.
And profane.
Sacred.
And accursed.
A being that should never have existed.
A Nephilim.
The mont its feet touched the Forgotten Shore, disaster descended alongside it.
The crimson sea rose into monstrous waves that swallowed entire cities whole.
The skies ignited with pale fire.
Mountains cracked apart beneath invisible pressure.
The earth itself scread.
Cassie watched people flee in terror as the Nephilim walked silently through the collapsing kingdom.
It did not roar.
It did not laugh.
It did not even seem angry.
It simply existed.
And its existence alone brought ruin upon the world.
Then, just as the winged being prepared to leave the devastated shore…
Seven figures appeared.
Seven heroes stepped forward against the apocalypse.
Each one radiated terrifying power that shook the heavens themselves.
One wielded a spear forged from black lightning that split the skies with every movent.
Another carried a radiant sword brighter than the dawn.
One cloaked themselves in endless shadows that swallowed all light.
Another burned like a living star descended from the heavens.
The remaining heroes each carried overwhelming presences that distorted reality around them.
And despite facing sothing so monstrous…
None of them retreated.
Then the battle began.
The world shattered beneath their clash.
The sea split apart into towering walls of crimson water.
Mountains crumbled into dust.
The skies trembled endlessly as divine radiance collided against ancient power.
Cassie could barely comprehend what she was witnessing.
One mont, entire storms vanished beneath a single sword strike.
The next, fragnts of reality itself seed to break apart beneath the Nephilim's wings.
Golden blood rained across the sea.
A severed wing fell from the heavens like a dying moon.
The scream of the Nephilim echoed across the world like a hymn of mourning.
And finally…
After an unimaginably long battle…
The divine creature died.
But victory never ca.
Because the mont the Nephilim fell…
Sothing far worse awakened.
Cassie saw a sun rise above the crimson sea.
But it was not a normal sun.
Its light devoured everything it touched.
The skies burned away beneath its radiance.
The ocean evaporated.
Even shadows vanished beneath its hungry brilliance.
Then beneath the sea…
Sothing opened its eyes.
A vast ocean of darkness rose upward from beneath the world itself.
An abyss so deep that even death seed insignificant before it.
The remaining heroes desperately fought against both calamities.
One after another, they fell.
The warrior of lightning vanished first beneath the devouring sun.
Then the radiant swordsman disappeared into the endless abyss.
The burning star shattered apart beneath collapsing skies.
The sea turned crimson with their blood.
Still…
They fought.
Still…
They resisted.
Until eventually, only one remained.
The youngest.
Cassie could not clearly see his face.
Only a dark cloak fluttering endlessly in the wind.
He stood silently amidst the corpses of his companions.
His friends.
His siblings.
The people he failed to save.
Yet strangely…
He did not cry.
Not even once.
There was only silence.
A silence so deep it felt heavier than grief itself.
Slowly, the young hero wrapped himself within his dark cloak and turned away from the ruined world behind him.
Then—
He vanished.
As though reality itself had erased his existence.
The vision shifted once more.
Ti flowed forward like water slipping through open fingers.
Cassie suddenly found herself standing before the Crimson Spire.
The towering structure pierced the heavens like a scar carved into reality itself.
And at its base…
A skeleton rested silently against the crimson stone.
The skeleton wore the sa dark cloak.
Even in death, it remained curled against the spire as though still waiting for sothing.
Or soone.
Then the world shattered again.
The vision changed.
This ti, Cassie saw a magnificent castle standing beneath the crimson sky.
Unlike the ruined wastelands surrounding the Forgotten Shore, this place was alive.
Torches illuminated towering stone walls.
People walked through crowded courtyards.
Voices echoed through the halls.
Laughter existed there.
Hope existed there.
And among the countless people moving through the castle…
Cassie saw familiar faces.
Sunny.
Nephis.
Senrix.
Elysia.
And herself.
The sight filled her with strange relief.
Then, instinctively, Cassie understood sothing.
The castle was west of their current location.
Far away.
But real.
Then—
The vision changed once more.
Darkness swallowed everything.
And seven lights appeared before her.
Each light carried a different presence.
A different destiny.
A different truth.
The first light shimred with countless colors flowing endlessly like rivers of stars across the cosmos.
Beneath it sat a blonde-haired woman alone upon a stone cliff, silently gazing toward the heavens as though searching for answers hidden beyond the stars.
Cassie imdiately recognized herself.
Lonely.
Searching.
Waiting.
Then another light erged.
A darkness so deep that it swallowed every possible source of light around it.
Beneath the devouring darkness stood two figures.
One was a starving shadow that endlessly consud everything surrounding it, growing deeper and more monstrous with every passing mont.
The other resembled a star suspended between contradictions.
Light and darkness.
Night and day.
Creation and destruction.
The two figures stood together beneath the abyss like reflections that should never coexist.
Then another light appeared.
A blazing crimson fla intertwined with endless machinery and fractured technology.
The fire twisted and slowly transford into a half-human silhouette.
It turned toward Cassie.
And smiled.
Then ca the blinding radiance of the sun.
Underneath it stood a radiant angel crowned in divine gold, wielding a sword that illuminated the heavens themselves.
Its wings spread across the skies like judgnt descending upon the world.
Another light thundered into existence.
Storms roared endlessly beneath it.
Cassie saw a woman slowly drowning within an endless ocean of darkness while lightning endlessly split apart the heavens above her.
Then ca the blood-red moon.
Underneath it walked a cloaked man wielding a chained sickle, silently wandering beneath crimson moonlight like a hunter pursuing prey across eternity itself.
And finally…
The last light appeared.
Nebulous.
Shifting endlessly between impossible colors.
Beneath it floated a mirror.
And inside the mirror…
A human heart slowly beat.
Alive.
Watching.
Waiting.
The pressure suddenly beca unbearable.
The visions shattered apart like fragile glass.
The weight of knowing crushed Cassie's mind.
The burden of witnessing truths beyond mortal understanding beca too much for her fragile soul to bear.
And then—
"AHHHH!"
Cassie violently woke up with a scream.
Her entire body jolted upward.
Cold sweat covered her pale skin.
Her breathing was ragged and uneven as terror and excitent mixed within her expression.
Imdiately, everyone around her woke up.
Senrix frowned deeply and moved closer.
"Cassie? What happened?"
The blind girl turned toward them, still trembling slightly.
"A vision…"
Her voice shook.
"I had another vision…"
Sunny froze.
Even now, the idea of soone casually seeing fragnts of the future still felt absurd to him.
Or perhaps not just the future.
The past as well.
anwhile, Nephis had already half-risen from her resting place, her hand instinctively reaching toward her sword.
Her gray eyes sharpened instantly.
"Are we in danger?"
Cassie hurriedly shook her head.
"No! It's not that!"
Despite her pale face, excitent slowly appeared within her expression.
"I saw people…"
Her voice trembled faintly.
"A castle. A castle filled with people."
Everyone imdiately beca alert.
Cassie slowly raised her hand and pointed confidently toward the distant darkness.
"I don't know how far away it is…"
She swallowed softly.
"But I know it's in that direction."
Sunny, Nephis, Senrix, and Elysia exchanged uneasy glances.
Relief.
Hope.
Suspicion.
Fear.
All those emotions mixed together instantly.
Even though Senrix had massacred countless Nightmare Creatures in this region, none of them truly believed the Forgotten Shore had beco safe.
Not completely.
It was simply not that kind of place.
Cassie's delicate finger remained steadily pointed toward the west.
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A/N: the lights corresponds to seven deities but the people under them is not divine aspect users, though close enough to that.
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