The demon king of shadows tried to escape, attempting to vanish into the umbral plane. It was useless. The shadow dimensions themselves were being absorbed by the gravitational collapse as if they were smoke sucked in by a turbine.
"Ah... this is..." was all he managed to mutter before his jaw was forced shut by the pressure.
The core Hok held in his hands began to emit a blue light of a frequency so high it burned retinas. Anastasia understood the magnitude of the energy about to be released following the rupture of the confinement.
"EVERYONE BACK! IMMEDIATE EVACUATION PROTOCOL!"
