Adam rose from his throne and swung his fist, the magic veins carved on the ground pulsing with the movement. Mana sparked along their lines, rushing through the fortresses' tunnels into the modular ring's beast core.
Outside, spatial mana rushed into its depth in a show of gathering photons and threatening hums. Then?
CRACK
The stored energy surged in a blast. Uprooted trees splintered as cultivators barreled hundreds of meters, bones breaking, sect robes torn and stained with blood and mud. The qi tigers exploded into shards, the formations maintaining them broken.
Even the mythical flying beasts blanketing the sky shrieked against the pressure. Most recoiled, but the phoenix and dragon's eyes narrowed into slits. They were sky dominators. Whoever controlled that strange structure was insulting them!
Beneath them, the leaders crossed their arms in a guard. Their feet dug deep trenches as they slid a meter back before they restored their balance.
