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Symbols of domination. Symbols of war. Symbols of rulership.
Kai slammed his spear into the ground. The earth trembled as though the mountain remembered who it now belonged to.
He drew in one full breath, deep, and final and his heart now glowing. He unleashed his second Ruler's Roar.
The world broke.
Not with sound.
But with silence.
A silence so absolute it consumed noise. Erased it. Drowned it in something older than death. The air didn't move, it vanished.
The shockwave surged out like a scarlet tide, not pushing but devouring. Stone cracked and vaporized. Silver mist shredded into ribbons, then into threads, then into nothing.
Half the savage rabbit clan ceased to exist. Not slain. Not injured. Simply gone.
Their bodies turned to dust mid-scream, shredded into black sand that scattered on invisible winds.
The six star rank guardian staggered, the orb of death it had been conjuring folding in on itself, then collapsing like a black hole of failed ambition.
