The petrified skeletal hand of Valerius descended upon Aethel with the crushing weight of a trillion ruined futures. The Forgotten Titan of Temporal Rot did not strike with physical force. He struck with the absolute inevitability of decay. Aethel tried to raise his localized black hole hammer to block the attack, but the temporal acceleration was too overwhelming.
Every single crystalline star composing Aethel's constellation body instantly burned through its entire lifecycle. The brilliant supernovas violently collapsed into white dwarfs, faded rapidly into lifeless black dwarfs, and finally crumbled into useless cosmic dust.
And the Warden of Absolute Stasis was reduced to a cloud of gray ash in the span of a single heartbeat.
Nearby, Morrigan moved like a terrifying crimson blur. The Primordial Goddess of the Crimson Eclipse swung her thousand rusted blades in a flawless, synchronized arc.
