Arrival

Marcius looked from on top of his familiar at the scenery before him.

The ground was scorched and ashes filled the air. Dark clouds hung from above as sunlight failed to penetrate them. All of this combined gave the land before him a dreading feeling. In addition, lava slowly flowed from any high ground toward the low ground as it bubbled and released streams of fire into the air.

There was no other way to describe it. The land before Marcius gave off a feeling that an apocalypse had occurred just before he reached there.

And it would have been what Marcius could have believed, if he had not known that this was the territory of the Eternal Flames Phoenix, Ashuran.

Ashuran was one of the four pillars of the Solas Empire, and just like Azot, she also went into hiding when the four primal spirit beasts decided that it was time to disappear from the Solas Empire in order to avoid complications.