Caine slowly looked up, meeting the World Will Eye's gaze without hesitation. Their stares clashed for a few long moments, as if testing each other's resolve, before the skies above rumbled once more.
The clouds swirled and condensed, forming a dense sphere. This sphere hardened, glowing faintly before it cracked apart, revealing a swirling black portal that radiated chaotic arcs of lightning.
The portal spun faster and faster, pulling neutral qi from the world around it, supercharging itself until it seemed to reach a state of saturation.
In the blink of an eye, the once tiny portal expanded, covering the entire sky and casting a dark shadow over what appeared to be the entire world. And with another blink, a colossal pillar of lightning, as thick as a giant's finger, descended toward Caine and the land below.
