*Millennial War, 300 years after the beginning of the Demonic Invasion*
*Continent of Tenebris, Human Coalition Headquarters*
POV: Klein / Alexander Sulyvhan
In the body of Alexander Sulyvhan, the first sovereign, the precursor of aura.
I rose slowly from my wooden desk. The joints of my gauntlets produced a clicking sound in the command tent. My fingers brushed over the parchments spread out before me: soot-stained maps of Tenebris.
Three hundred years... It had been three centuries since humanity had been retreating, then regaining ground, then bleeding again on this cursed land.
I stepped out of the tent, and the immensity of the military base struck my eyes. Thousands of soldiers were bustling between the gray stone barracks. The sound of hammers on the anvils of the field forges echoed. The air smelled of sulfur and sweat. Above our heads, the sky of Tenebris was nothing but a dome of swirling ashes that hid a sun many of us had never seen.
