The thunder did not begin with a roar or a scream, but with the haunting, bone-chilling blast of a trumpet.
At the highest summit of Vaelith, where the ancient branches of the World Tree pierced the freezing mists of the upper atmosphere, the sound of the Nura Echo Trumpet shattered a night that should have remained peaceful. Its tone was heavy, vibrating with an immense surge of mana that caused the hearts of all who heard it to thud with a primal, instinctive terror. It was the sound of total war mobilization—a sound that had not echoed through the lands of Verdia for nearly three hundred years.
