The next instant, extreme light and heat erupted at once.
Four earth-shattering booms rang out almost simultaneously from four directions. Like four miniature suns, their dazzling radiance illuminated everything around them.
The energy ripples unleashed by the explosions spread outward at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even space itself was torn apart as enormous mushroom clouds rose into the sky.
At the instant of the explosions, space seemed to warp beneath immense force. The air was compressed to the extreme before violently bursting free, forming rings of visible shockwaves that frantically spread in every direction from the blast points.
The soul beasts within the Beast Tide, even those Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts with formidable physiques and defenses, seemed incomparably fragile in that instant.
Their hides were instantly scorched black by the heat, their flesh mangled, their bones shattered into countless fragments by the overwhelming impact.
Even more terrifying were the soul beasts at the very centers of the explosions. Almost no trace of them remained. The fleeting black marks on the soil beneath them were the only evidence they had left behind in this world after being vaporized.
Yet what followed in the blink of an eye was the outward surge of heat and vibrations, which overturned the land outside Shrek City.
The Shrek Academy students atop the city walls could only stare blankly. Before the four massive Soul Guidance Barriers, everything had turned an absolute white. Only several seconds later did it gradually shift to orange-yellow, and a few seconds after that, four mushroom-shaped clouds of smoke could finally be seen rising.
"Crack, crack."
Several seconds after the intense light reached Shrek City, the heat waves and shockwaves from the four Ninth Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells arrived as well.
The impact of the mere aftershocks