The feed loaded.
The viewer count was already climbing. One thousand. Seven thousand. Twenty thousand in the time it took Sarah to blink, the number ticking upward so fast the digits blurred, because Valhalla's Sinners going live after an hour of silence was the kind of event that traveled through notification chains like a shockwave.
But the numbers weren't what mattered.
The screen was.
Kaiden's stream showed his perspective. The camera captured what he saw, and what he saw was a basin of dark stone far below, crawling with movement. Monsters. Dozens of them, segmented bodies and bladed limbs pouring across the basin floor in a tide of chitin.
And in the background, something massive. A creature the size of a large building, mineral-plated, six-eyed, smashing the ground with enough force to send fissures racing through the stone. Every step it took cratered the earth beneath it.
"What's going on?" Emilia yelped.
