The destroyed energy core did not explode or leak laws. After all, the Archmages of that era had taken safety rather seriously. Perhaps a few spellcasters enjoyed installing self-destruction arrays in their combat golems, confidently believing that the dangerous bombs would blow up distant enemies rather than themselves, who spent years beside them. But within their own magic towers, almost no one would give a construct butler—one that theoretically never had any opportunity or reason to join combat—any self-destruct capability.
After all, alchemical creations working in one's own home had to prioritize safety, didn't they? Not only could they not be fitted with random "self-destruct" devices, but to prevent accidents from endangering more valuable magical equipment, cautious mages would also use all kinds of "emergency cooling arrays" and "anti-energy-backflow arrays" to keep them from exploding.
As for a construct like Ktarolan, which "controlled a city," "maintained an important hub," and "doubled as a backup battery," it was even less likely to possess any self-destruction function. Although theoretically, her energy core, with its extraordinary power-supply properties, would certainly overload and explode if damaged, Archmage Dolush had specifically enchanted the core's outer structure with an "anti-entropy-increase restraint array" to prevent just such an "accident."
Thus, the instant the energy core was destroyed, the Blazing Sun array that suddenly activated directly froze every energy circuit within the entire energy structure. The energy core, which had been burning with scorching brilliance, was completely extinguished under the soothing effect of the "anti-entropy-increase restraint array" in less than one hundred-thousandth of a second.
Like a setting Solar Flare, like charcoal drenched by rain, like candlelight snuffed out by wind, like hope departed... Yes, it had stopped its uninterrupted burning of three billion years. It had finished its work and fallen into eternal slumber. And in the