The unremarkable little orb of light streaked from Wang Yu's hand like a meteor, arcing into the swarm of enemies conjured jointly by the two Utopia spires. A heartbeat later, the fuse Avia had built inside it caught—and the world lit up.0

Despite its size, the orb erupted with impossible force. Magic surged outward in a roaring torrent, an endless, bottomless flood funneled straight into the chain-reaction array Avia had inscribed within.0

From that single point, the reaction branched off, splitting, doubling, spreading with every second, turning magic into tangible, supercharged matter.0

With the orb feeding it near-infinite power, the spell enclosed within no longer needed to rely on ambient mana. All constraints fell away. Within a bounded space, high-energy material simply kept piling up without limit, decay, or pau...0