"Now," he said, and his voice had dropped to something that resonated in the chest rather than the ears, "it is time."
Nathan's eyes went wide.
Morosuke vanished.
Nathan threw his arm up on instinct alone.
The impact hit like a collision with something immovable and massive, a force that had no business existing inside a human body, and for a fraction of a second Nathan held against it, the shock wave bursting outward from the point of contact and tearing across the room in every direction. Then Morosuke snarled, and the red energy wrapped around him detonated outward in a single pulse.
Nathan went through the wall.
Stone and timber gave way around him, the castle's face crumbling outward as he tore through it, and then there was open air and the vast pale blue of the sky above him, the ground a long way down, the wind rushing up to meet him as he fell.
Nathan twisted in the open air before the ground could make the decision for him.
