After realizing their mistake, the two Orcs immediately stopped, but the moment had already passed.
Normally, this brief blunder wouldn't have mattered much if they were simply performing their rituals separately and with the same hostility against each other.
However, their unexpected camaraderie led their rituals to coincide with each other and create a strange resonance that had never been seen before in the world. Their combined beat had unintentionally triggered a unique phenomenon; anyone who was within the range of the sound had experienced a drastic increase in their Earth mana absorption!
Instead of the usual trickle of mana from the ground, their rituals seemed to have turned their bodies into a giant magnet that siphoned the very Earth mana from underneath their feet!
This effect might have been brief and didn't last for very long, but it didn't go unnoticed.