The Breach Beneath
The sea bed splits.
From the blackest trench, the Drowned Leviathan erupts — a god-wrecked beast whose spine was once a sea-mountain, now laced with iron bones and Rotspire coral. Its maw is a whirlpool of death. Its eyes… burn with borrowed souls.
Vhorr-Kael floats just behind it, cloaked in sea-wrath and bone threads.
"Let the child of fire come.
Let him see what the Hollow does to gods."
Above, defenders falter as bone-wrought serpents surge forward. The Leviathan dives toward the Isles.
Scene II — Crown fire Awakens
Feng Xian emerges from a rising surge, coral shards wrapped around his arms, his eyes smoldering with ember light. Beside him, the Serpent Oracle's mark coils up his left arm — glowing in sync with the Seventh Crown, now floating just above his right palm.
He breathes in.
"This sea remembers you.
I bring fire it never forgot."
The Crown pulses. Memory sigils ignite in the water — glimpses of an ancient pact, when flame and tide once walked together. Spirits stir. The Crown remembers its rival.
Feng Xian rises on a tide-spear conjured from water and fire — the Crown's voice now clear.
"Claim what was broken. Light what was drowned."
He drives forward, trailing an aura of molten tide.
Scene III — Clash at Leviathan's Spine
As the Leviathan charges, Feng Xian meets it head-on — weaving firelight talismans and hydro-form arrays into a spiral strike. His blows shear away layers of rot-coral, revealing ancient wounds — remnants of some battle long forgotten.
"This pain isn't yours," he whispers, before thrusting a Crown-branded spear into its eye.
The beast roars — not in rage, but in recognition.
But Vhorr-Kael snarls. With a flick of his fingers, the Leviathan howls again — this time in agony — as new Hollow runes sear across its body.
"No redemption. Only devouring."
Feng Xian is thrown back by a tail strike, crashing into a reef spire.
Scene IV — The Crown's Roar
Blood in his mouth, vision spinning, Feng Xian touches the Crown again. It flares — a fractured roar echoing through the deep. All across the battlefield, allies and enemies alike feel it.
Lan'Fei's beast screams in resonance.
Luo Fen gasps as Grove-serpents pause.
Even the Oracle bends its head.
The Seventh Crown fully awakens — just for a heartbeat.
"Let this sea remember what it once feared."
Feng Xian erupts with power, water turning to crimson mist, fire shaped like scales. His next strike — fueled by both elements — pierces the Leviathan's hide and frees a sliver of its true soul from the Hollow's grip.
The Leviathan shudders.
Scene V — Fall, Then Silence
The Drowned Leviathan falters, sinking back into the trench — not dead, but freed enough to flee.
Vhorr-Kael hisses.
"You've not won. You've only fed what wakes below."
He vanishes into black mist as sea beasts scatter.
Silence falls over the Isles — broken only by Feng Xian's labored breath and the dim glow of the now-silent Crown, floating above his hand.