A glaring transformation would have attracted distracted and drunken eyes far earlier, but the purple-red light had initially been relatively dim, only given away by the eventual thunder.
Still, the thunder had happened for a reason. It had marked a chain reaction that only the five Orlats on the stage could study with their bare eyes.
The interference around the planet was made of mana, leftovers of synthetic mana, to be precise. It wasn't anything powerful or that could be harnessed, but certain spells could use it as a channel for something majestic.
The five Orlats on the stage saw how sparks and lightning bolts ran across the invisible halo of leftover energy around the planet, devouring it during their advance.
Both sparks and lightning bolts were minute but bright, and their joint expansion and leftovers tainted the sky with their purple-red color, creating the intensifying light everyone else saw.
