The blast did not stop at the basin.
The ground heaved outward in enormous waves, breaking beneath forests and mountain ranges far beyond Velmora. Deep underground, the force kept travelling.
A continent shook.
Above the impact, space fractured. Black fissures opened through the violet light, swallowing shattered cliffs before they could fall. The pillar rising from the spearpoint punched through the clouds, through the highest reaches of the sky, and continued into the darkness beyond.
An immense cloud of dust rolled beneath it.
What remained of the basin disappeared.
Demons fleeing beyond the ruins were thrown from their feet. Others looked back and saw nothing but a violet column towering over an advancing wall of pulverised earth.
Far away, the God of War turned toward the light.
The force of the collision reached him across the distance. His expression hardened.
Lord Enigma felt it too.
