Zaos had already launched himself into the sky the moment Evan breached the lower atmosphere, convinced that Evan would need support after expending so much power to carry something of that magnitude beyond the atmosphere.
However, the instant the cosmic explosion expanded outward through the upper layers of the sky, the shockwaves reached him before he could even try to protect himself. His body was violently thrown off course, his descent turning into an uncontrolled fall that tore through the air as he was flung downward like a falling star.
He would have become a meteor crashing into the surface if Altrishia, in her full dragon form, hadn't teleported behind him and caught him mid-fall.
She immediately generated layers of magical barriers around them, translucent walls forming in rapid succession as the cosmic shockwaves continued to roll through the atmosphere.
