The impact was cataclysmic.

Jiyeon had struck him not to kill him, but to finalize the temporal loop. The Mortal Hour, which was still running, was instantly recognized by the Blade of Infinite Dusk as the only truly mortal thing in the entire vicinity. The Blade did not kill Elias; it cleaved the Mortal Hour—and the Weaver’s consuming shadow—from his immortal essence.