Immediately the purge edict was uttered, Hagen's spasms stopped entirely, and his body slumped, lifeless, to the ground.
Both Osmund and Madoc reared back subconsciously, taken aback by how… simple it had been. The shock of losing their comrade was there, of course, but they had expected something more cataclysmic to happen. This was a Greater Fragment after all. One that was still very much bound to a person too.
It wasn't until Finn snorted from the side and spoke that they understood what had actually happened.
"Casmir… He extinguished the fragment himself before it perished," Finn said. His eyes remained fixed on the corpse, watching the faint, dissipating trails of soul essence that were retreating into the void rather than being truly purged.
Madoc and Osmund frowned immediately. This was the first they were hearing of an original fragment bearer possessing the authority to extinguish a fragment from a holder remotely.
