BOOOOMMMMM!!!
The world cracked open.
The beam touched the ground—and the world overturned. Everything exploded.
A shockwave erupted outward in a perfect sphere, vaporizing the ground beneath and peeling away the surface of the entire island like skin being flayed. Buildings—towers, dorms, arenas, even the massive spires of the Grand Library—were ripped from their roots and hurled skyward like feathers caught in a hurricane.
The very land shrieked. A wave of force cracked the bedrock beneath the academy, sending it lurching. Fault lines split open like jagged wounds. Hills flattened. Craters bloomed. Forests were torn from the earth, trees reduced to airborne splinters.
The academy's central dome—once a monument to knowledge and power—vanished in a flash of light. Entire sectors were crushed before anyone could even scream.
