The hell above was just the beginning; if anyone was lucky enough to survive such an explosion, they would soon regret not having died easily in the detonation just now. After the hydrogen-oxygen mixture had ignited, the oxygen in the air was completely burnt out, leaving the space filled with carbon monoxide and high-temperature smoke. Suffocation; carbon monoxide poisoning; inhalation of hot thick smoke scorching the lungs—each way of dying was slower and more painful than instant death in an explosion, all the while more certain to take life. The subsequent spreading fire would also cut off all possibilities of damage control.
There was no more certain destruction than this; at the moment of detonation, the Isherlon Battery was already declared dead.
