EPISODE 2: THE EGG THAT SHOULD NOT EXISTHis fingertips brushed the jagged, obsidian shell.The moment skin met scale, the universe simply stopped.The blaring sirens, the chaotic screams of a hundred thousand panicked citizens, the frantic bark of Enforcer rifles—all of it was instantly muted, sucked into a vacuum of absolute silence. A shockwave of pure, invisible force erupted from the point of contact, rolling outward in a massive, shimmering dome of distorted air.Aren gasped, his dark eyes widening as a sensation he had never felt in his entire seventeen years of existence violently invaded his body. Heat. It was not