The explosion inside the 80th-floor security room didn't merely shatter the circuit box… it detonated the primary mana-conduit running behind the concrete plaster in a violent chain reaction.
KABOOM!
A blinding sphere of orange fire, white-hot shrapnel, and superheated shockwaves exploded outward with terrifying velocity.
The heavy reinforced double doors were blasted completely off their steel hinges, torn from the wall frame like cardboard, and hurled thirty yards down the hallway.
The eight heavy hotel security guards standing in the doorway didn't even have time to pull their triggers.
CLANG! KRA-KOOM!
Plates of white-and-gold riot armor buckled, cracked, and caved in under the pressure of the blast.
Heavy mana-shotguns were violently ripped from numb fingers, spinning through the air.
Half the squad was catapulted backward down the hall, their bodies airborne before smashing hard into the thick marble pillars lining the corridor.
