290 Amid The Ruins

"I've seen Essence Remnants before," Arran confirmed. "Though none as large as that one."

He cast a wary glance in the direction from which they had come. Although an hour's travel had put several miles between them and the monstrous creature, he still half expected to see its lumbering figure appear in the distance.

"So our world has them, as well," Karanos said in a soft voice, his expression troubled.

A frown crossed Arran's face. "Before we entered this world, you said it held a warning I should see." He gestured at the ruins around them. "Is this it? You think the same fate might befall our own world?"

They had barely left the cave an hour ago, but already, Arran had seen enough to suspect that this Shadow Realm had once been a world like his own, filled with people and cities. Yet something had happened to it — some great calamity had plunged it into darkness and inundated it with Shadow Essence.