I exhaled heavily and opened my eyes, taking in the devastation around me.
The green clearing where I had sat a short while ago was barely recognizable. Trees were snapped or reduced to charred stumps. Craters and burn marks scarred the earth, and small chasms cut jagged paths through the terrain.
The experiments I had conducted with my laws had left their mark, and the air still hummed faintly with the lingering Essence.
This was the aftermath of testing my limits, of merging, fusing, and shaping the laws I had mastered.
I closed my eyes for a moment, recalling the steps I had taken. Until now, my control over the minor laws had been strong, but they were still separate, bounded by their individual frameworks.
Fire burned, Ice froze, Lightning struck, Shadow concealed, Vitality healed or sustained. Each law worked well alone, but their potential felt capped.
