Actually, an entire area in the shape of a cone for thousands of kilometers was converted into flames from the sky to the ground. Everything burned. It was an act of self-combustion. The world was forced to burn itself.
The attack lasted for one second before it ended. It had done cataclysmic damage during that time but the flames persisted for a while before disappearing. The ground had turned to lava because the rocky surface melted.
The pyramids are intact and undamaged but the environment has been scarred. The air has become hot furnace air and all the oxygen was consumed by the flames. This entire place has become uninhabitable and hostile to life all in the space of a few seconds.
Soverick appeared soon after. He appeared some distance away from where he disappeared. He is not unscathed. His entire body has been seared by the all-encompassing flames. He lost a layer of flesh. He survived because he escaped the worst of the flames but he is terribly injured.
His golden fur has become black and burnt. It has even disappeared in several places to show the bland flesh beneath. The white robe that the first sage gave him has burned away. He has what can be considered fourth-degree burns. It would be fatal to a mortal. But he will survive it easily despite the agressive nature of the attack.
His burns want to spread all over his body. They want to burn and burn until there is nothing left to burn. But he is much too strong to be troubled by the residual effects of an attack after he survived the main effect. He willed it and he began to heal.
The danger is not completely over. He has to protect the sole of his feet with momentum so that the lava on the ground won't do more damage to him. In fact, the entire shield of momentum on his body is being strained to protect him from the heat that can melt metal. He looked around with a scowl as his injuries healed.
He muttered angrily. "He is not even here and he still damaged me. That boy has become more than a nuisance."
Staying in the law matrix didn't protect him from the attack. It only made him take control of his essence and actively resist the flames. Salvos isn't here and he wasn't aiming at Soverick. Soverick and everyone within Salvos's range of attack are just bystanders. And yet, he almost died. As for the others, they surely died.
Salvos' attack is actually rooted in the world of concepts in the law matrix. The attack manifests in the world of manifestation as hell on earth. It is an unavoidable, undodgeable, and unblockable attack. No matter what you do, you will be hit by it. You can survive it though. But that's if you're strong enough. Those that aren't strong enough will turn into flames and die.
"Come what may. I'll show that guy who is the boss." He promised vengeance. "I beat him before. I can do it again."
Soverick shook himself free after healing. His golden fur became shinier than ever. Then he continued his journey toward his objective. If there's someone who can use the fluctuations of his brand to harm him badly, that person is Salvos. Salvos has the best chance of killing him singlehandedly. It will be a tough fight if they fight but he has a good chance of winning.
Transcendents have conditional immortality. They can easily convert Origin energy into health, stamina, and power. It is like they are an engine that consumes Origin energy. They might as well be golems with Origin energy as their core. They can reinforce their defense and increase their strength with Origin energy.
The major problem that transcendents face is that there is a limit to how much they can do. Like any engine, the soul body has a power output limit and efficiency. That limit is why they are still killable. The limit is not imposed on them by the world. It is an intrinsic value based on their existence.
Even the universe has its own limit. Everything you do changes the world. Simply existing changes the world. The universe can accommodate these changes up to a limit before entropy and chaos become too much for it. It is then that the universe ends.
Any system has a limit on how much change it can accommodate before it losses structural integrity. The soul body is like that too. Your existence has fused with your consciousness so any changes to you affect your consciousness. You can morph your body and rapidly heal due to this fusion but changing your existence too much will cause your consciousness to crash.
Your body is fused to your mind so your identity, personality, and concentration are affected by the changes to your body. The mind can break once you reach the limit of its malleability by changing the body too much. Healing becomes easy but pain can reduce your concentration and fighting prowess because your consciousness is not whole until it has also fully healed.
This weakness of existence is exploited using laws. Your consciousness is forced to change by injecting the laws of the world into your body through attacks. You gain a certain amount of control when you comprehend laws. You can use that control to attack someone from the law matrix. The errors in their existence need to be purged and corrected before the injury can be healed.
The presence of errors within their existence slows down the healing of transcendents and pushes their existence to the limit of what they can do. They become weaker and weaker. Their existence will then break once they have reached the limit of their tolerance to errors. That's how laws are used to kill transcendents.
Salvos is terrifying because everything within his sight starts to be overwritten with the law of fire from the law matrix. He injects a large amount of the error of fire into everything he sees both living and inanimate. He practically drowns everything in the error of fire. This quickly overwhelms the limit of everything.