She showed him what would be if he failed

Dark, tortured winds screamed around him threatening to tear his grip from the standard of his people. The earth beneath his feet crumbled with every step, the defeated now long silent.

He found the horizon, and through the ash of Erdgard's ruin he found the enemy. His enemy.

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