With a bang, Apollo broke through a layer of airwaves and flew straight toward the altar. It rapidly heated up during its flight, and by the time it was about to reach the ground, it looked like a mass of molten iron.
Apollo hit the ground. At the same time, Su Xiao beside the valley threw himself flat. Even though he was a full 1.5 kilometers from the center of Apollo's explosion, the explosion's two-kilometer diameter wouldn't reach this area.
Boom!
The deafening sound of the explosion rang out. Since Su Xiao was lying prone, the blast transmitted through the ground was ear-splitting.
Sha, who had originally been standing with her arms folded, also threw herself flat. Just two seconds earlier, she had still been looking down disdainfully at Su Xiao, who had dived to the ground.
White-hot flames spread out, instantly wiping out the Assimilators packed together inside the valley and reducing them to ashes.
When the explosion ended, the valley had nearly been leveled. The mountains, already hollowed out, simply couldn't withstand Apollo's heat and shock wave.
The Demon Clan was currently on the eastern side of the valley, while the Feather Clan was on the western side. The two sides had originally been separated by the valley, but now that it had been flattened, aside from the nearly ten thousand Assimilators between them, the two sides could see each other from afar.
The valley's sudden disappearance left both the Demon Clan and the Feather Clan somewhat dumbfounded. However, one group acted even faster than they did: Su Xiao, Sha, and Lilith. The three of them charged across the scorching magma on the ground, went straight to the center of the Soul Altar, and jumped into the underground passage.
"Th-that was..."
The Demon Commander, Ulysses, whose entire body