Annihilation of a Legend

The weight of legends is a peculiar thing. For Bien Regalado, it was a second skin, worn beneath the guise of a mild-mannered archivist at the National Museum. By day, he cataloged brittle manuscripts and dusty relics, his fingers tracing the faded ink of history. By night, he was Kamao, the Fist of Justice, the man whispered about in hushed tones wherever shadows stretched long and fear clawed at the edges of civilization. They said Kamao was blessed, touched by the spirits, a warrior forged in the heart of a typhoon. They said he was invincible. They were right, once. For a decade, the land had known an unprecedented peace. The monstrous hordes that had plagued the archipelago for centuries, a grotesque tapestry of nightmare creatures and primal horrors, were gone. Vanquished. Annihilated. It was Kamao who had driven them back, his fists a whirlwind of fury, each strike resonating with the power of a collapsing mountain. He had stood against armies of scaled horrors, giants with...