It wasn't an explosion of fire or plasma. It was a physical shockwave of pure, unadulterated golden light. The wave exploded outward from the peak of the black glass mountain, expanding in a perfect, three-dimensional sphere that moved at the speed of light.
*FWOOSH!*
The golden shockwave hit Sebastian and Valerie first. It didn't burn. It felt like a massive wall of warm, rushing wind passing directly through their digital avatars. Valerie gasped, her blue astral form momentarily turning a brilliant gold before snapping back to its original color.
The shockwave rushed over the edge of the plateau and swept down into the fiery canyon below.
It rolled over the rivers of boiling magma. It swept past the ruins of the Tartarus Daemons. It crashed into the millions of jagged, pitch-black iron spires that littered the landscape as far as the eye could see.
And then, the sound hit.
*CRACK! SHATTER! SNAP!*
