Before anyone could fully process what they were seeing, Ethan had already moved.
The newly refined power inside him wasn't restrained anymore—not even a little.
Transparent lightning erupted along his arm. It first crawled soundlessly along his skin, then gathered at high speed in the air ahead, condensing into a violent flood that was almost impossible to see—
And it slammed straight into Varkharr's gate.
In the next instant, the entire doorway blew apart.
This wasn't a normal "crack and break."
The massive gate shuddered violently. The patterns on its surface lit up inch by inch—then, as the transparent lightning invaded, the structure collapsed from the inside out.
The fragments didn't even get the chance to scatter before the follow-up impact ground them into finer debris in midair.
