'No, it can't just be that one corpse had this amount of power stored in it.'
Sylas' eyes flashed, looking around the world and noticing the mangled Runes that were left behind in the wake of the explosion. When he saw this, it didn't take him much longer to comprehend.
Somehow, the Runes of the Glass Giant had a sort of cancerous effect on the Runes around it. During the explosion, the like-shapes of the Glass Giant's Genes, Blood Essence, and Bone Essence made it so that it was especially effective against Runes that were similar in kind to itself.
The army was quite uniform in the paths they took and the Genes they shared. Because of that, the explosion was especially effective on them.
Sylas had only vaguely likened this ability to having a nuclear bomb in his arsenal, but he didn't realize until now just how right he was. Not only did this corpse bomb of his have a baseline explosive might, it also had the cell deconstruction and obliteration ability of radiation.
