In fact, things were imminent.

So I said: "You have had time enough.

I have given you every advantage, and not interfered.

It is plain your magic is weak.

It is only fair that I begin now." I made about three passes in the air, and then there was an awful crash and that old tower leaped into the sky in chunks, along with a vast volcanic fountain of fire that turned night to noonday, and showed a thousand acres of human beings groveling on the ground in a general collapse of consternation.