At almost the exact same moment the Wizard's soul was annihilated.
In a natural cavern, at the end of a more secluded branch tunnel deep within an old mine west of Blackstone Fortress.
The rivulets of dark-red energy coursing along the walls suddenly erupted into chaos, like discordant strings, emitting a piercing hum.
They frantically surged toward a relatively flat, black rock face in the center of the cavern, where they converged, twisted, and finally coalesced into an extremely blurry pattern with edges that constantly dissolved and reformed.
It was a bizarre, shattered symbol—a fusion of an eyeball and a vortex.
The instant the symbol took shape, a dark-red form in the shadowed corner of the cavern—one that looked as if carved from cooled lava—jolted violently.
The Observer's eyes, which had been like two clusters of slowly burning Dark Gold flame, suddenly erupted with a blinding light!
