There was little time to recover from the explosion as I felt another warning from my sword as I saw a massive dark blast of energy hurtle towards me. Excalibur came up and a torrent of its energy met the blast head on. The resulting blast was nothing I had seen before as I felt reality shift, time stopped and the forces of nature ceased. A beam of lightning struck not far from me from above. The force of the death magic against my own had stopped, allowing me a moment’s breath.