"Kill!!"
"You think this is still the last cycle? You lowly void creatures!!"
A burst of piercing, maniacal laughter shook out from the hazy gray mist.
At the border of the Karls Empire, upon the vast grasslands, towering giants clad in black armor and golden helmets strode swiftly toward the sprawling gray mist ahead.
Within the gray mist were gray fog creatures that exposed only their arms and shoulders. Their bodies were formed from gray mist, and strange chain-like runes covered them from head to toe.
Some of the nearer-charging giants had already collided with the gray fog creatures. The giants possessed boundless strength and astonishing speed. The gray fog creatures were immortal and indestructible, their claws razor-sharp.
From the very start, the two sides fought with utter abandon.
Behind the gray mist, rhinoceros-like commander-level monsters roared with laughter as they charged out. One of them rammed two giants flying, their breastbones caving in as gray mist coiled around them. They clearly would not survive.
"This place shall become a permanent stronghold of our clan! Get out, you wretched void creatures!!" The rhinoceros monster roared. Its enormous body, more than thirty meters tall, trampled several more giants to death before lowering its head and charging at the giant leader.
"Stupid Chaos Devils! We wiped you out in the last cycle, and we can do the same now!" A giant in dark-gold armor and a white cape roared as he charged toward the rhinoceros.
Boom!!
The earth suddenly erupted in a ring of ripples like an air-burst bomb. Countless clumps of grass and soil exploded from the plains, leaving behind a massive crater dozens of meters deep and more than a hundred meters wide.
In another mountainous region of the empire.
Giant gray fog creatures resembling lizards silently crawled out of