He released the arrow. It crossed the broken seal without as much as a sound.
For a fraction of a second, the entire world became silent as the arrow passed through the boundary that had separated the mortal world from the Sovereign of Fire for thousands of years.
Then the sky disappeared as white consumed everything.
Atheline felt Lilith's hand tighten around his.
The fairy sanctuary vanished beneath their feet, the World Tree bent, oceans rose and mountains shook.
Across every continent, soldiers stopped fighting and looked upward as something greater than any pressure they'd experienced descended upon the world.
The arrow had struck, Atheline knew it had, he could feel his Authorities inside it as it touched it's recipient.
It should have been enough to destroy almost anything that existed beneath divinity.
The white light faded and his expression changed. Someone was holding the arrow with two fingers, that was all.
The Fire Sovereign stood beyond the fracture.
No.
