BOOOOOOOOOM!
The explosion was so massive and cataclysmic.
It lasted for whole 2 minutes.
Soon, the roar of the Chaos Expansion slowly faded, replaced by the jagged, erratic sound of the atmosphere trying to stitch itself back together.
The blinding violet light that had consumed the horizon receded, revealing a scene of utter devastation.
The golden hexagonal grid that had once protected the mountain-sized creature was gone, scattered into a billion flickering shards that dissolved into the wind like dying embers.
Adonis stood upon the colossal, obsidian-scaled neck of the beast, his chest heaving. His imperial robes were singed at the edges, and a thin trail of blood ran from his lip, but his eyes burned with a cold, triumphant fire. Beneath his boots, the Mother of Earthquakes was no longer thrashing. The soul-shaking tremors that had threatened to uproot the continent had smoothed out into a low, rhythmic vibration.
