Chapter 3: Ashfall

The aftermath is devastation. The settlement is gone, reduced to ash and twisted metal. Survivors are captured. The narrator is dragged into the Onyx Citadel, where the scale of Vahn’s plan becomes clear—entire worlds turned into weapons. Loss becomes real, heavy, and irreversible.

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