Down in the swamp, the fused monolith detonated. Yet, it produced no fire or stone shrapnel.
The dark rock shattered into floating, corrupted pixels.
A humanoid figure stepped from the digital ruins. The entity possessed no physical features or organic biology. It was a localized silhouette of pure, deleting code. Violet static bled constantly from its pixelated limbs.
Old-Shell unleashed a furious roar, digging his massive claws deep into the swamp mud to launch his hulking body forward. The colossal reptile lowered his head and drove his newly hardened, emerald-infused horn directly toward the center of the pixelated entity.
The Avatar of the Hunger raised a single, static-covered hand to catch the charging Shell-kin by the tip of the horn. The impact produced zero physical feedback or flying debris. The indestructible Star-Iron carapace simply ceased to exist upon contact, dissolving into a cloud of floating violet pixels.
