Everyone in the vicinity looked up to the sky and stopped casting any other spells. The air was extremely still all around the Phoenix… until she released her magic. A few of the mages wanted to escape, but their legs felt heavy, probably aware that no matter how fast they could run there was no way out.
Even the more adept mages who had the capability to open portals to move vast distances felt that their spell casting would be far too slow to grant them any chance of escape, so they did not even bother trying, for the sky had been transformed into a massive ocean with no end in sight and the Nine Oceans Phoenix brought down the fury of the seas right in the middle of the white deserts.
The torrents of waves gushed down with extreme speeds thanks to gravity and it seemed that the magical defensive barrier the hatchery had employed stood as much of a chance to hold out as a man single handedly trying to stop an oncoming train.
