The cloud ceiling held for exactly one second.
One second of the permanent, centuries-old, Eon-saturated barrier that covered the entire world - the shredding field, the killing lattice that had destroyed every aircraft and every drone and every attempt to penetrate it - resisting something it had never encountered before.
Then it exploded.
The black lightning made contact with the clouds themselves, and the two completely opposite resonances collided, blowing up into a shockwave that sent violent ripples through the endless miles of sky.
