Metropolis, afternoon.
Sunlight streamed through the enormous floor-to-ceiling windows of the Chaos Direction building and fell across Link's throne.
The City of Tomorrow he had built with his own hands basked in peace.
Traffic flowed through the streets in perfect order.
In Central Park, children laughed and played while couples nestled together on the grass.
Since Link had taken dominion over Earth, the city had gone nearly a month without a single serious crime.
People had grown used to that absolute safety. They had grown used to looking up and seeing the new landmark towering over the city like a god.
Then—
A faint tremor passed through the ground, so slight it was almost impossible to notice.
In the park, a little girl stopped swinging and looked at her father in confusion.
"Daddy, was that an earthquake?"
Her father smiled and shook his head. "Of course not. With Mr. Link here, there won't be any earthquakes."
The words had barely left his mouth.
BOOM!
This time, the tremor was violent, terrifying enough to feel as though it would overturn the entire city!
Countless car alarms shrieked at once along the streets.
The glass curtain walls of the skyscrapers creaked and groaned.
People rushed out of buildings in panic and looked toward the source of the shaking.
What they saw was an apocalyptic sight they would never forget.
At the far edge of the horizon, in the outskirts of Metropolis—
A gray figure as huge as a hill was trudging toward them, one heavy step at a time.
Every step made the earth groan and the towers tremble.
There was not a trace of life about it. Only pure, suffocating destruction and hatred.
"What... what is that monster?"
A young office worker pointed toward it in horror, his voice warped by