Chapter 71 The Abyssal Order’sGambit

　　Caitlyn’s POV 　　The night screamed with shadow. 　　The sky above was endless black, no stars, no moon, just an eerie, suffocating darkness stretching as far as the eye could see. The wind howled, cold and sharp, carrying the scent of decay—thick, cloying, unnatural. It clung to my skin, to my clothes, making my wolf restless, uneasy. 　　The land itself felt different. The air had shifted, heavy with something unseen, something wrong. The kind of wrong that sent shivers down your spine, that made the hairs on your arms stand on end. It was more than just the cold. It was something else—something dark lurking just beyond the edge of sight. 　　A scream. 　　Not human. Not wolf. 　　A sound so unnatural it made my blood run cold. 　　It came from the trees. 　　And then—they came. 　　Twisted creatures, pouring from the shadows like ink spilling across the battlefield. Their forms shifted between flesh and smoke, bodies distorting as if they weren’t entirely real. Their eyes burned, flickering like d