Where had these monsters come from?
Why had they appeared inside the Luminous Sanctuary?
And how had celestial and demonic bloodlines been fused together?

Evelyn stepped out from behind Jared and looked at the wreckage scattered across the ground. Her face was still pale, and she had to fight down the urge to vomit.

“Young Lord… these… what are these things, exactly?”

Jared didn’t answer. He only said, “Keep moving.”

Evelyn bit her lip, said nothing more, and followed him.

They continued deeper into the forest.

The farther they went, the more bodies littered the ground, and the heavier the stench of blood became. Some corpses were intact. Others were mangled. Some had been reduced to nothing but shredded flesh.