The tear Jason had forced open did not remain isolated.
The violent, oversized rupture he created in his desperate escape carried a resonance that traveled through every existing fracture between realms. Across the world, lesser tears that had been slowly widening for months suddenly convulsed and expanded in unison. Each one stretched outward until it matched the catastrophic scale of the portal Jason had torn in Gehenna. What had once been narrow, unstable wounds capable of admitting only lesser spawn now stood as gaping thresholds large enough for the higher, more refined beings of multiple realms to cross freely.
It was not limited to a single location. Every major tear on the planet had been forcibly enlarged by the same uncontrolled surge. Higher entities that had previously been barred by insufficient width now had clear passage. The global situation, already dire, had escalated into something far worse in a single moment.
