Chapter 56. Moonlit Inferno

Kade’s final, desperate attack—tearing the primary energy conduits—did not prevent the explosion; it ensured it was uncontrolled, catastrophic, and instantaneous.

The floor of the command center didn't just break; it vaporized.

The sound was not a traditional boom, but a high-pitched, metallic shriek—the sound of reinforced mountain stone and Obsidium runes being ripped apart by a magic they were never designed to contain.

In the moment Kade turned from the severed panel, a column of light erupted from the ritual pit below, a terrifying fusion of two opposing energies. It was a swirling, vertical vortex of blinding, glacial Silver Light interwoven with choking, corrosive Copper-Red Ash. This was the Moonlit Inferno, the physical manifestation of the completed Nexus, and it was consuming everything.

Kade reacted purely on instinct. He didn't try to run. Instead, he forced his entire Silver Wolf essence outward, collapsing it into a tight, dense spher