The holographic screens flickered with newfound intensity while the Wave spell expanded, devouring the nuke's synthetic mana. The scanners on the various vehicles and structures struggled to record the scene, but some stability arrived when the clash ended.
Nevertheless, the soldiers' shock didn't diminish. When the scanners resumed working, the holographic screens revealed the vast, fuming crater and the charred figure floating above its center. The latter was barely humanoid anymore, and no one would call it alive, but it still didn't fall.
The silence on Michael's bridge and the communication channels grew heavier as the soldiers waited for some developments. Everything pointed in the direction of Prince Khan's death. Michael half-expected the burned figure to crumble into a pile of ash in the next second.
