Perhaps because they had lost too much Morningstar-tier combat power at once, or more likely because the Pantheon knew that the "President" had returned in triumph, neither the Council of Gods nor Tir, the God of Justice, continued using any underhanded methods to ambush the now-exposed Whisper of Destruction, even though Anthony Vodakali, the Archbishop of the Church of Justice known as "Radiant Purity," had the misfortune of dying in some unknown corner of the Faerun plane.
Thus, before the outcome of the recently concluded Blazing Sun-tier battle had fully fermented and begun reshaping the balance of the entire Multiverse, the carefree Punk returned to the Morningstar Magic Tower as smoothly and satisfactorily as he had hoped.
Yes, he had merely returned to the magic tower, not to the Hatak Imperial Nation. That distinction was precise, with no simplification whatsoever.
Because less than five seconds ago, the nation of Hatak, with its history of over two hundred thousand years, had been completely erased from the Faerun plane. The unrestrained clash of four Morningstar Professionals' Morningstar killer moves had not only created two "super basins" that exposed the crust and utterly transformed the terrain across a vast region, but the energy aftershocks unleashed by the tides of laws had also undoubtedly vaporized every scrap of matter within Hatak's territory.
In fact, when Punk returned to the entrance of his magic tower and gazed into the distance, his Morningstar-tier vision could no longer see even the slightest unevenness across the boundless barren ground. The soil throughout the Hatak Imperial Nation had been burned into soft, crystalline glass by fiery winds sweeping in from tens of thousands of miles away, and naturally, no living creature could exist upon the ground that still radiated rolling waves of heat.
Judging from that desolate scene, Hatak's