The battle before them had long since surpassed the bounds of conventional warfare, becoming a mad clash on the level of universal laws.
Every collision of the energy torrents was no mere explosion, but caused the very fabric of space to wail and reform.
The threads of law were forcibly torn apart, twisted, then haphazardly woven back together, leaving the physical constants of this star region wildly unstable. Gravity warped, the speed of light fluctuated, and even causality briefly descended into chaos.
This brutal and terrifying scene seemed to recreate a fragment of the ancient War in Heaven, which had swept across the Milky Way and shaped the universe as it now stood.
Back then, the Old Ones and the C'tan had fought and tangled with one another, wielding power enough to extinguish stars and reshape galaxies.
And now, the aftermath of three C'tan battling was mercilessly scouring everything around them.
A wandering, frozen rocky planet was lightly grazed by the gravitational vortex of the Outsider, Sara Noga. In an instant, it was crushed and stretched by invisible force, ultimately turning into the most basic interstellar dust like a lump of clay squeezed to pieces. Every possible trace of microscopic or macroscopic life that had ever existed upon it was completely erased.
Farther away, a star system barely within the habitable zone, one that might have fostered primitive life, was struck by a stray breath of stellar energy from Iglanias. Three of its planets, along with their star, silently vaporized and vanished like snowballs tossed into a steel furnace, leaving only a fleeting, scorching mark in the cosmic background radiation.
This formerly lifeless star region had now truly become a forbidden zone for all life.
Any living thing that dared approach was either driven mad by rampant psychic corruption, torn