"Vitality Collapse."
The spell didn't explode outward, it went inward, forced directly into the lion's system through physical contact. It went deep, straight into it's core...
The lion froze.
Its eyes widened with something it had never felt before, fear.
Its heart pulsed once, violently. The mana core that surrounded it, five radiant rings of compressed power, trembled, flickered… and cracked.
[The Golden Mane Lion Has Lost Connection to Its Core!]
[Its Pride Is Collapsing!]
[Its Instinct Detects Death!]
The beast knew.
Something had gone horribly wrong. There would be no second rebirth. No regaining strength.
For a brief, horrifying instant, its entire body swelled with uncontrolled energy, like a sun trying to fit inside a cage of flesh.
Then...
BOOM!!!!!
The lion detonated.
Not just its body, its vitality, its core, its very existence ruptured outward like a nuclear blast of life force and golden flame.
