Silence reigned.
Miranda's heterochromatic eyes met Salenor's black eyes, and for a moment, neither of them moved.
Slowly, Salenor's gaze dropped from Miranda's face to the severed head dangling from her hand, then lifted again to meet her eyes.
Slowly, Miranda's fingers holding the Devil Supreme's hair loosened, the severed head silently floating away.
'Ashen Crucible.'
Her magic power lingering in the surrounding space was instantly infused with her Authority, and in a split second, the fabric of space-time across the entire universe was dominated by her power, her surroundings transforming into a volcanic planetoid where seas and rivers of purple lava flowed freely and fissures erupted with streams of purple fire.
