In the face of supreme power, even amplified Egos and waves of Infinity could do nothing but burn.
The obsidian lightning came down on the settlement and the settlement stopped being a settlement! Oh! The reinforced walls, the trees lashed together and worked through with layered Pulses, came apart under the strikes one section at a time, the deadness in that light treating eons of fortification as a thing that had simply taken too long to die. Roars rose up from within, and shocked shouts after them, and through the gaps torn in the walls Achilles could see dozens of Gilded Ones scrambling, with many more inside structures built from the ancient trees and the bones of slain Source Beasts.
He watched the Relictus and the Swords of Existence move with no mercy in any of them!
