The pillar of void and starlight shattered the roof of Roshhide's palace, pulverizing the ancient pyramid into a storm of falling stone.
Hide stood amidst the disintegrating rubble. He was no longer bound by the chains of humanity. Every atom across the floating mountain of Hubin—every fold of space, every shadow, moved to the rhythm of his heartbeat
He didn't get a single second to savor it.
KRAAAAA-BOOOOOOM!
The twilight sky above ripped apart from horizon to horizon.
Two colossal dimensional vortexes tore open the upper atmosphere of Rilth. The pressure of two higher-realm beings descending simultaneously without restraint caused the edges of the floating mountain to break off and plummet into the abyss below.
From the rift on the left spilled an endless tide of black serpents. Stepping off his throne of calcified snake bones was the Lord of House Odo—his bald, pale torso draped in twilight mantles, his smooth, featureless alabaster face turned toward Hide.
