A warm welcome
Though through the use of Heaven's Furnace, Lex had contained the spread of devastation, he could feel that a disturbance had been caused in this place. If all had been still before in the Trial of Eternity, then now heavy winds were buffeting the lands.
A carefully established equilibrium had been broken, and the chances of spontaneous combustion had increased exponentially. But this was only the beginning.
Lex looked at the two figures, and for a moment he had great expectations, but then they vanished. He was unimpressed.
Much like the previous dark figure, whose identity was not nearly as hidden in Lex's eyes as he had thought, these two were also clearly sent by someone to probe.
"You have some gall…" one of the two figures began to speak, before his body blew up entirely.