Ruination tracked it as a cascade, the wave of authority sweeping through THE Quietus Silvanus and reaching into the millions of Gilded Ones within it, and one after another, in numbers too vast to record individually, they were emptied.
Their Infinity, the foundation of their power, torn out. Their amplified Egos, the Superbius pride and the Acedia Ego stillness and the scattered Luxuria that had been cultivated for pleasure, pulled free. Their Observable Force, their Civilizations, the full accumulated weight of their existences, extracted in the storm of the detonation!
The Third Scale beings' defenses, formidable against any conventional assault, could not stop authority that operated beneath the level their defenses were built to address. They flared, and they failed, and their wielders were hollowed!
