Author's Note: Unedited Chapter
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The moment the universe trembled from the collapse of the Outworldly's final form, Earth felt it...
A rupture split the skies open. The blue dome above the world warped with hairline fractures like broken glass as space-time itself trembled. The clouds tore apart. Birds fell mid-flight. Oceans heaved violently, as if trying to rise out of the planet.
Then came the shattering.
A deafening CRACK, louder than all thunder Earth had ever produced, echoed across continents as the planet itself split into three titanic segments.
Cities slid off their tectonic plates. Mountains were ripped down the center. Entire nations were swallowed whole as the crust peeled open.
Billions of earthlings died in the first hour alone, triggering a world wide panic.
