Dogtown's dark night sky was torn apart in an instant. A sudden burst of enormous flames was like the sun at the end of the world, its intense light even drowning out the already dim Night City!
The explosion was deafening, and the earth trembled beneath it!
Warning messages flashed across people's visual sensors. The shock wave was like a rampaging beast, spreading outward from the enormous fireball created by the explosion, hurling vehicles, drones, mechs, and Hellhound soldiers into the air!
The fuel cloud, which had rapidly expanded through the air from the thermobaric bomb, ignited in an instant. Like a pack of wild wolves, the flames devoured everything, vaporizing it in a flash. The oxygen in the air was consumed at a furious rate, as if the fireball were about to burn through the sky-
The shock wave swept across everything at over 3,000 meters per second. The high-rises around the blast center collapsed like blocks: glass, rebar, and concrete shattered in the catastrophe, whistling through the air as they scattered.
A man-made storm!
And this was only the beginning. Gas changes on such a scale created a terrifying vacuum effect. The air at the center of the explosion was instantly sucked away, forming a brief but deadly vacuum zone. The atmosphere rushed back toward the blast center at tremendous speed, and this second shock wave tore apart everything near the explosion site all at once.
Human lungs and eardrums burst in an instant. The air became invisible blades, shredding every living thing that wasn't tough enough!
This was the true effect of a real weapon of war exploding in a city.
People had once watched a nuclear bomb explode from above Night City, but Lier had kept the blast over the river. Though it was an airburst,