Convergence of Time and Space 2

The entire city seemed to be built from enormous stones that glimmered with an ominous, ghostly green light—if they could still be called stone at all.

In any case, that strange material formed structures twisted to the extreme, defying the principles of Euclidean geometry: towering spires that leaned as though they would collapse the next second, yet had stood firm for a thousand years.

There were also archways twisted and coiled like entrails, massive stone bridges connecting different buildings without any logic, and huge, bizarre structures whose shapes simply could not be described with words.

From an architectural standpoint, it had no aesthetics whatsoever. The entire city was deathly silent, without the slightest sign of activity, like the massive corpse of a giant that had been dead for countless ages, lying quietly beneath the dim yellow sky and radiating ancient desolation and a blasphemous aura that could shatter the mind.

"Avada Kedavra!"

A dazzling, ominous green light rose from within the city like a venomous snake tearing through the yellow sky, accompanied by a childish yet icy voice.

The killing intent contained within it was pure and absolute. That brilliant green light was not aimed at Saruman and the other two. Like a living serpent, it tore through the suffocating silence at the edge of R'lyeh at a speed beyond the eye's ability to follow, plunging deep into the twisted buildings within the city.

Clearly.

The spell's target was some enemy of the caster within the city.

"Whew... whew... whew!"

The expected sense of mortal danger from being locked onto by the spell did not descend. Saruman and Karg let out breaths almost at the same time, though their hearts still pounded wildly in their chests.

In that instant just now, the pure, cold, utterly undisguised will of death contained