The Blighted Crater lost its garden of pale-white feathers.
Quakes and rumblings accelerated its collapse as its walls and pillars turned liquid, then gaseous, only to tumble against the Henosis Seekers in monstrous chunks of solid, sculpted rock.
Elementalist Yaen Beracha stood amid the chaotic ebbing, guiding bluish filaments of Mana as they transmuted every inch of matter they touched—they birthed new forms and shapes, honed them for a murderous onslaught, and rained mighty death over the scurrying Homunculi.
The leader of the Henosis Seekers in Priene, Lieli Talei, struggled to evade the continuous assault.
He watched his forces fall one after the other while the Archangel he summoned, Araqiel, cackled mockingly in his ears.
