The dimensional portals closed with a dull crash that resonated through the dimensions, their rings of violet light gradually extinguishing until only a spectral echo remained in the air. Behind them, the draconic legions of the Ignivaras deployed in the night sky like a swarm of predators, their massive silhouettes obscuring the stars. The armada stretched for several kilometers, a military formation of surgical precision that testified to centuries of warrior experience.
They were now engaged in what would perhaps be their final campaign toward the East, where the walls of China awaited, standing like a millennial challenge to their devouring ambition. These legendary fortifications, reinforced by generations of human engineers and imbued with ancestral protection spells, represented far more than a simple obstacle they embodied the determination of a civilization to survive.
