Gray Mist Forest.
A gargantuan creature, akin to a blue whale, propelled itself forward with its fins, piercing through layers of gray mist, creating expanding ripples of water-blue in its wake.
Within the body of the blue whale, there existed a crimson, void-like space.
In the space, beams of red light conglomerated into horizontal discs, resembling a formation of red chess pieces arrayed across the expanse.
Over a thousand Half-Dragon beings, covered in fierce scales, curled up on these chess-disc platforms, their eyes closed in deep slumber, densely packed.
Amidst this sleeping army of Half-Dragons, about a dozen figures sporadically stood on the chess discs.
They were almost entirely clad in crimson Legion Armor, their visages concealed behind ice-cold, dark red masks.
At that moment, a gray-brown shadow emerged from the disc, twisting rapidly into a solid form—a bizarre paper man.
