Phei reacted the instant the two World Transcendents began drawing upon the terrifying reserves they had kept buried throughout the previous hour.
The pressure flooding the abyss had already become unbearable, yet what descended now belonged to an entirely different scale. Every surviving crystal formation groaned beneath it, enormous frozen ridges bending until fractures raced through them in branching white scars, while rivers of Primordial Blood lifted from the shattered floor without Phei calling them, trembling in midair beneath the sheer weight pressing down from above.
The two monsters had withdrawn only several steps, but the distance around them warped so violently that their bodies appeared to stretch and contract whenever the surrounding space folded beneath the power gathering inside them.
