The Seed wasn't fading. It was pulsing faster, drinking the blood of the fallen Boss, absorbing the lingering mana of the battle.
"Get back," Alvian said, his voice dropping to a whisper that carried more terror than a scream. "Get back now!"
Because he knew. The quest wasn't marked 'Complete'.
The silence that followed Malagor's death lasted exactly three seconds.
Then, the world screamed.
It wasn't a sound heard with the ears, but felt in the marrow of the bone. A psychic tear in the fabric of reality. The Master Seed, hovering above the dais, cracked open. It didn't release a plant or a wave of magic. It released a Void.
A pillar of absolute, negative light shot upward from the seed, punching a hole through the violet clouds and into the atmosphere. The temperature in the sanctum, which had been bearable thanks to their gear, plummeted instantly to levels that defied physics.
[WARNING! Environmental Anomaly Detected!]
[Absolute Zero Field manifesting.]
