Three ferocious beasts appeared—a lion, a tiger, and a leopard, each more daunting than the last.2

To the left, the lion bore a mane of gold, every strand steeped in golden blood, regal and domineering. Its roar alone shook the desolation flames in the surroundings. It was no beast wounded in battle but a creature whose sweat shone like molten gold, teeming with a vitality supreme among the demonic ranks of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Known as the Goldblood Lion, its kin were legion, its fame vast, and it was a general of renown within the Desolation Corps.0

Centered between its compatriots was an even larger black tiger, its face grim as a fiend, twisted in a snarl. Thick, dark smoke wreathed its form, and from its jaws hung fangs a foot long, personifying the very essence of dread. This Dark Saber-Toothed...0