The limb flesh monster disintegrated.
It came undone, layer by layer, body by body, screaming mouth by screaming mouth. The blue fire spiraled inward like a vortex, consuming everything it touched with the hunger of a star.
Centuries of corruption, thousands of stolen bodies, all of it burned. All of it became ash and ember and then nothing at all. The fire roared as it fed, brighter and brighter, until the night around them was bleached to noon.
The core cracked when Cecilia's mana reached it.
The dark pulse at the heart of the core stuttered, faltered, and the rift seed that had been twisted into something monstrous let out its final breath.
The blue fire spiraled inward one last time, collapsing into a single point of brilliant, blinding light, and then it burned out. The night rushed back in, until—
BLAAST!!!
The twin rifts glowed bright blue.
