As Solam spoke those two words, the scale he had thrown suddenly contracted in midair. No, "collapsed" would have been more accurate, because it abruptly shrank into a tiny dot, while the air around it began to warp under some unknown force.
The moment the tiny dot appeared, Solam teleported fifty meters away and watched the idiots who still had no idea what was happening with cold eyes. At the same time, a host of spell auras emerged around his body, all of them protective spells.
Just as the others were about to chase after him, the tiny dot suddenly let out a crisp crack, like someone had crushed a light bulb.
Then blinding light ruled everything!
The intense light instantly swallowed an area thirty meters around the dot.
Then came the explosion...
The details of the explosion need not be described. In short, its power was utterly insane. The tremendous shockwave flattened every building within several kilometers, followed by an earthquake. The ground was like a still pond into which a stone had been thrown, ripples spreading across it in waves.
Xianna and the others were fairly strong. Before Solam cast the spell, they had already run several hundred meters away. Even so, the shockwave tossed them about like small boats in a storm, leaving them unable even to stand.
After the explosion and fierce winds passed, the entire area fell silent. A massive mushroom cloud slowly rose from the center of the blast. Beneath it, the ground had become a huge lava crater. As the heat dissipated, the lava within gradually solidified into something resembling glass.
Those who had originally been near the explosion had either vaporized outright or been reduced to piles of unrecognizable matter scattered everywhere. After all, extreme heat and shockwaves could completely turn a