Reality cracked.
This was the only way Alex could describe it. The sound that erupted from the seal was like a scream, from the Primordial Expanse itself. It was a raw, wrenching sensation that tore through everything.
Through air, through ground, through space. It made his bones vibrate, made his skin crawl, even made his thoughts completely empty.
Then the basin itself cracked.
Lines of gleaming white light fractured through the air and filtered out of the slit like spiderwebs across glass, streaking through the air, the earth, everything.
The horizon distorted, no longer even becoming visible.
The world was a broken mirror.
Then—
BOOM!
An explosion without heat, without flame – only pure force and energy – blasted outward from the seal.
A tidal wave of energy so vast and packed that Alex couldn't even fathom rolled over the basin, flattening every jagged outcrop and lava spike for miles.
The distant lava plumes were even snuffed out like candles in a gale.
