The forest was deathly silent. Very uncommon for when the sun was high in the sky.
No adventurers, no mammals, no birds, even the insects were gone.
The only thing heard was the wind rustling through the trees and the river running slowly past a stone temple. A temple that seemed deserted and abandoned by both mankind and time itself.
CLUNK!
A sound echoed from inside the temple, coming from a giant hourglass. One that was made of solid gold and was untouched by the vines over grown in the room, like they were trying to avoid it. A giant lever had slid down from its previous position. Soon after, all the gears and sprockets inside it started to move smoothly in perfect unison together. They moved for almost a minute until an opening formed in the bottom of the hourglass. The sand flowed out but started to fly around the room and then gathered in the center, creating a giant humanoid form.
"I live again… that means the day of reckoning has finnaly come…. My final target has moved into place…"
The black creature started to laugh, softly at first, but then got steadily louder until the entire area of the forest was echoing the evil sound.
There was a reason there was nothing had come to the forest….
Death had arrived