The silence that preceded the blast lasted exactly a microsecond. Then, the world shattered.
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After the explosion…
"HE IS DOING IT AGAIN!"
Min's voice miraculously pierced through the dazed ears of Taro and Liu just after the deafening roar of the initial shockwave and as the kinetic force violently rattled their bones from hundreds of yards away. The jester tamer threw his arms up, his face a bizarre mask of absolute awe mixed with profound, theatrical indignation.
"He is stealing my essence again! I invented that! That was MY technique, Ren!"
Absolutely no one on the frontline had the breath or the sanity to answer him, because the explosion had executed its job flawlessly and there still was work to urgently do.
The detonation scoured Selthia's vanguard from the physical plane with a level of violence that not even hyper-scaled Platinum mutants could endure… It was an absolute erasure.
