The antechamber was quiet save for the weak ragged breathing of High Warlock Xoroth.
Lucifer stood in the center of the pristine white marble room. He did not immediately execute the broken mage.
His void-swirling eyes scanned the heavy jagged black crystal resting on the floor a few feet away.
The Abyssal Charge.
"Don't touch it," Elara warned as she stepped up beside Lucifer. The Valkyrie kept her violet-flaming spear leveled at the Warlock.
"The magical casing is fractured from the Starlight Purge. If the dark matter inside destabilizes, it will blow a hole in the Primary Conduit."
"I am not going to touch it," Lucifer stated smoothly.
He raised his right hand. The Gauntlet of the Void King crackled with black lightning.
"Gravity Crush," Lucifer commanded.
A microscopic black hole materialized directly over the explosive! The intense localized gravity slammed down.
CRUNCH!
