The waning darkness that had cloaked the forest began to dissolve entirely, giving way to the violent bloom of crimson flames and purple lightning that tore into existence.
With a deafening roar, both elements collided, an elemental clash so potent it threatened to cleave the forest in two.
The resulting shockwave surged outward in a brutal tide, hurling trees, earth, boulders, and stone alike into the air. What wasn't flung was utterly annihilated, swallowed whole by the overwhelming forces at play.
A deep tremor reverberated through the land, as though a meteor had struck the heart of the forest. Lightning crackled violently, twisting through the air with serpentine madness, each thunderclap sharp enough to rupture eardrums.
Flames raged with searing brilliance, the heat distorting the very air, rising to a fevered pitch, as if reality itself might melt under its wrath.
