Kaiser came here driven by a mix of curiosity, duty, and desperation. The invaders were pouring out from a specific spot along the Southern Boundary, and he couldn’t ignore it any longer, because sooner or later, if Kai did not block the source, more invaders would come out, eventually, some of them would pass his guard due to his narrow range, which would undoubtedly head to those that flee — the survivors of the battle and innocent migrators, none of them can handle a invader without cost. So, he can't afford to let even a single one pass him, for it would cost the lives of many and the only way to assure that is blocking the source directly.

Additionally, he sought to find a way to stop them from passing through what he assumed was a breach in the Boundary. And partially curious about what the Boundary actually looked like up close. Against Garba's dire warnings, Kaiser decided to investigate the source of this calamity, determined to uncover what had triggered the invasion tonight of all nights, fighting his way forward.

Kaiser hadn’t expected much at first—just another battlefield, perhaps. But as he crept through the forest, his doubts began to waver. Finally, hidden in the shadows of ancient, gnarled trees on the edge of a clearing, he saw it: the Southern Boundary, where reality itself seemed to distort and ripple.

Up close, it was like a massive, eerie mirror, attempting to reflect the world on Kaiser's side. And it succeeded, almost too perfectly—replicating the trees, the supposed horizon, and even the smallest details of the forest, as if Greenland vast forestry stretch further ahead. Yet something was profoundly wrong. The reflections shimmered unnaturally, their movements fluid yet jarring, as though filtered through a lens that couldn't quite capture their essence. The trees within the mirrored expanse seemed to stretch in strange directions, their angles subtly wrong, their proportions uncanny.

It's just, doesn't feel real, almost sickening to look at, differ to the reality his so used to seeing.

The barrier’s surface rippled like a tranquil lake disturbed by an unseen force. At times, the ripples smoothed out, giving the illusion of serenity. Other times, they warped violently, creating dizzying distortions that made Kaiser’s head churn. It stretched endlessly to the left and right, rising into the sky beyond what his eyes could trace.

Behind him, in the distance, stood the ancient tower where Garba lived. Its peak shone like a steadfast lighthouse, casting a wide beam of light over the desolate forest under the silent night. Though its assumed purpose was to warn the lost away from the Boundary, tonight, it served its true role. The light illuminated the rippling barrier, highlighting the unnatural disturbance within, aiding the tower Warden to immediately notice unnatural disturbance on the Southern Boundary.

However... All thoughts were lost in Kaiser the moment he came here, and saw it. Freezing him in place. His wide eyes locked at the center of the distortion, where the ripples are coming from.

“What the hell is that...” He uttered shakily after a few seconds.

Needless to say, appalling him was not easy anymore. He had seen and faced horrors that would break lesser men and endured pain that most could never fathom. But this? This was something else entirely.

For the first time in a long while, Kaiser was genuinely fearful.

Because what he was seeing now made everything horrifyingly clear, answering questions Kai never wanted to be answered—the invaders he had been fighting weren’t conquerors or apex predators. They were desperate, food-deprived refugees, runaway stragglers from the other side of the Boundary. The skeletal, nightmarish horse-like creatures he had encountered—thin, gaunt, and acting as though they hadn’t eaten in ages—They hadn’t entered Greenland as conquerors but as refugees from a realm of pure terror.

They were fleeing from something far worse.

Their emaciated frames and erratic behavior suddenly made sense. In their home realm, they were weak, barely scraping by against creatures of equal or greater strength for they weren’t built for survival or combat—they were prey. Easy prey in whatever hellish place they had come from had chewed them up and spit them out.

And now, their true predator has followed them.

There, inside the Boundary, was a massive outline of something slowly forcing its way into reality. At first, it was difficult to comprehend, like a vague shadow pressed against frosted glass. But as it pushed closer, details began to emerge—and each one made Kaiser's blood run colder.

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The creature’s head was grotesquely massive, its shape akin to a hammerhead shark but twisted into something far more sinister. Two colossal horns sprouted from the sides of its elongated snout, curling upward like demonic scythes. Its four glowing eyes burned like embers, set deep within its monstrous face. Between them, a gaping maw bristled with jagged teeth, each the size of a longsword.

Its body was a nightmare of armor-like scales, deep red and glinting like molten metal under the faint moonlight. Towering over the trees, it dwarfed everything around it. Each of its limbs, thick and gnarled like the trunks of ancient trees, ended in massive claws that could crush an entire house with a single step. Even from behind the barrier, the creature’s presence was suffocating, as though it was exerting a force that bent the very air around it.

The rippling barrier trembled violently as the beast pressed against it, its immense form becoming sharper and more real with every passing moment. The Boundary seemed to fight back, but it was clear it was losing, struggling to contain the titan that sought to break through. Marching like a mammoth towards his reality, dreadfully unstoppable.

Kaiser gripped Windslayer tightly, his hands trembling subtly. He had faced death multiple times, but nothing had prepared him for this.

His voice broke the heavy silence, a faint, almost whispered mutter.

“F-f*ck me sideways...”

Then, as if the Boundary's resistance finally gave way, the creature emerged fully from the rippling, distorted surface of the illusory barrier. Revealing its full terrifying glory, boosting a scaled hive akin to a bull, with each lumbering step, the ground trembled beneath its massive weight, the vibrations radiating outward like the harbinger of doom. Its hulking frame, covered in jagged, reddish-brown scales, exuded an overwhelming presence that seemed to make the life from the clearing shuddered.

Its ember-like eyes burned through the darkness, scanning the surroundings with a predator's precision until they locked onto Kaiser. In that moment, a chill raced down his spine, his instincts screaming to run, even though his legs refused to obey.

Even though he had long overcome death, his not immune to raw fear of abominations, especially something at this size.

Then, it's maw revealed long jagged teeth and suddenly roared, sending a wave of violent breeze towards him.

A deep, guttural sound erupted from its chest, shattering the stillness of the night. Loud and deep, sending a wave of force that tore through the air like a living storm. The leaves frantically danced, the branches sway and Kaiser's hair fluttered. An ordinary human would have been pushed back, but not him. Still, Kaiser felt it sipped into every bone of his body, rattling his ribs and sending a tremor through his chest. His ears rang violently, drowning out every other sound, while the very air seemed to vibrate with the creature’s fury.

That roar rolled throughout the vast stretch of Greenland, even the devouring flames of the wildfire shook for a moment, the surviving hunters on standby in the abandoned village, forming a crude defensive formation flinched in fear. Before reaching the thousands of migrators venturing the road under the lead of an armored caravan, the knights, mercenaries and villagers all turn to look where they came from, their expression sharing grimness and dread.

Because whatever could produce that howl of doom, was... Unimaginable.

As though a primal declaration, a call of dominance from an apex predator to its prey. For a moment, all of Kaiser's thoughts were stripped away, leaving only raw, unfiltered terror.

Luckily, the pain in his busted eardrums and the weight in his chest yanked him back to reality, albeit roughly. Wincing, he raised a trembling hand to his face, rubbing it as if the motion could erase the image before him. His breaths came shallow and ragged as he forced himself to look at the creature again, hoping against hope that it wasn’t real. But it was, the damned thing didn't disappear. He blinked, then looked again... And again.

Indeed, It was real. *Too real.*

The massive beast towered over everything, its hammerhead-like skull glinting in the faint light. Long, jagged horn jutted from the sides of its elongated snout, making it look like an upgraded version of a hammerhead shark, with the body of a bull. Framing its small, glowing eyes that seemed to burn with an otherworldly malice. Each step left deep imprints in the earth, its enormous clawed feet capable of crushing entire trees with a single stomp. Its body, a grotesque combination of muscle and hardened scales, radiating power—a stark contrast to the frail invaders Kaiser had fought earlier.

He put on a crooked smile, having recovered from the shock.

"Well I'll be damned, it-its a dinosaur...'

The thing resembled a dinosaur, or at least what he imagined one might look like—if dinosaurs had been plucked from a child's worst fever dream. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the luxury of coming up with creative names for the endless horrors he faced. After all, who had time to christen their enemies in the middle of a battlefield? Especially unimaginable monsters like this!

'Yeah, let’s just settle on cute dino,' he thought bitterly, a hysterical laugh bubbling in his mind as he rubbed his temples. Was he going mad? Maybe. He cursed under his breath, wishing for a second he could blame those skeletal horse-things for bringing this thing here. Ah, he would’ve loved to eviscerate them all over again. But unfortunately, he already wiped out every last one of those starving invaders, it seems.

Which meant now, he was this dinosaur only target.

Kaiser swore again, every nerve in his body alive with conflict.

The invaders he had fought before had been unnervingly tall, their elongated necks stretching them to an average height of three meters. But this beast? This *dinosaur* towered over them with ease, beating even the surrounding trees in height. Its colossal frame, packed with dense muscle and protected by reddish-brown scales that gleamed in the pale moonlight, was the complete opposite of the gaunt, malnourished horses he had faced earlier.

Kaiser had been confident before, acting all brave and tough on playing the wall, throwing himself into battle with reckless abandon against skinny invaders. But this?

This wasn’t part of the deal.

His heart pounded as his mind raced. How was he supposed to stop something like this? Something so massive that the tops of the surrounding trees can't barely reach its shoulders. Something that radiated strength and ferocity with every breath it took? Crumbled the earth with every step.

And most pressing of all—how in the hell was he supposed to survive this?

Which, ironically, wasn’t really a question. He *would* survive. His immortality guaranteed that, but there was a fine line between surviving and winning, and right now, the line felt impossibly distant.

But there was no time to dwell. The creature had spotted him, and its towering form shifted as it began to lumber forward, each step a countdown to his impending doom.

Kai really wished running was an option.

Gritting his teeth, Kaiser responded with his own roar—blowing his borrowed horn—which sounds adorable compared to the dinosaur's bellows.

The only silver lining in this impossible situation, is apparently, this enormous invader was the last wave of visitors from the other side. If he could somehow take it down, this nightmare might finally end.