The explosions that followed swallowed everything, so the wizards outside did not witness what happened next.
If Roman's primordial soul escaped, then there was hope yet for a comeback. As the saying goes, "As long as the primordial soul survives, the wizard remains undying."
But if even the primordial soul is shattered, and his life and path extinguished, Roman can only let his soul enter the Underworld, begin a new cycle of reincarnation.
Even if there is a next life, it would no longer be Roman, but simply a new individual.
Meanwhile, above the sky, overlooking the teeming masses from one of the nine giant cities—Norn City.
Before a conference table, the virtual projections of powerful primordial soul wizards cast their forms here, engaged in a meeting.
All of them wore grave expressions, some even showing anger and sorrow.
One, a formidable Eighth-Circle Wizard, spoke:
"The soul token has shattered. Roman has fallen."
