Once Nexus had healed itself fully, Voleron was enveloped and locked away inside the sphere of Nexus. Nexus was still weak and it would take time to fully recover. The Enlightened who survived the battle with Voleron gave their power back to Nexus and gave thanks for such a gift. It was when they were preparing to leave to return to their homes that the ultimate, unpredictable disaster of the world struck without warning.
Voleron began to laugh and scream within Nexus. It was still conscious. During the hundreds of years of terror that The Hunting Grounds raged across Darlow, the devil had grown mighty, seemingly much more so than either Nexus or The Enlightened had thought. Its Representatives sapped the energy from all five corners of the planet that they dwelled, and now Voleron was filled with great power, and residing inside Nexus. It had falsified its weakness (and its apparent defeat) in the eyes of The Enlightened and now it was going to enact what it had sought to do when it first arrived on Darlow -
The Cataclysm.
The Shards...