The wail of the Ancient Void Screamer was not mere living noise.
It was an entropic sound weapon forged in the silent gulfs between dying stars.
At fourteen thousand hertz, the main hum attacked the nervous systems and mental domains of living creatures, causing blood vessels to vibrate until they burst.
At the same time, the creature’s backup deep ring shifted down into the sub-bass register. A seven-point-two-hertz deep-rumbling pressure wave that bypassed solid matter entirely. It traveled directly through the earth like an underground tidal wave.
WUUUUUUM-SKRRRRREEEEEEE!
The cave air turned into a shimmering, distorted heat haze of pure shaking shear.
High above on the crumbling castle walls, sixty-foot black glass castle walls dissolved into tiny black powder. The ghostly spirits of ancient First Epoch soldiers wailed silently as the ringing standing wave snapped their spiritual forms into drifting motes of light.
Shen Shitou clamped his jaws together so hard his star-steel back teeth chipped. His silver-steel-heavy dark metal spirit veins groaned. It shook like overtightened guitar strings under the relentless sound assault.
