Silver staggered back, his eyes narrowing against the brilliance, but he could not escape the scorching blast. The air shimmered with the intensity of the heat, warping reality itself as Selena's fiery fury tore through the space between them.
Abigail, standing behind Silver, was swept off her feet, hurled backward by the sheer force of the blast. Her body hit the stone wall with a sickening thud, and the ground beneath her trembled as if the earth itself had been scorched.
The temple's ancient columns groaned under the weight of the shockwave, but Selena's power continued to burn, a beacon of heat and light in the frozen heart of the temple.
The walls around her began to crack and crumble, fragments of stone turning to dust in the relentless heat.
For a moment, it seemed as though the entire structure would collapse, but the brilliance of Selena's Super Nova still held its ground, burning fiercely, relentlessly.
