Escaped

In the end, Alex only ended up with some minor bruising when the chaos finally died down. Most of the pain had actually come from the fall back down to the ground, sped up by the shockwave.

But the same could not be said for the residents of Monty town.

He may have saved them from being at the epicentre of the explosion, potentially saving the lives of tens of thousands of people, but the explosion on the ceiling had caused tons and tons of debris to shatter and rain down on the surrounding 30 kilometres.

A few unfortunate souls were unlucky and had huge, house sized pieces of rock fall right on their heads, turning them into a bloody paste in an instant. Others were still fast asleep in their houses, not knowing that a huge rock was about to obliterate them before it was too late.