The Great Old One only saw purple-red light filling half its vision before the pain arrived. Khan had stabbed the lightning bolt directly into its eyes and let it detonate there, inflicting untold damage.
Finally, the ancient snake shrieked back, retracting its massive head in an attempt to escape the crackling sphere of destruction the lightning bolt had generated. A simple gesture from its huge neck could make it retreat for hundreds of meters, but the danger didn't diminish.
Soon, another thunderous explosion resounded, and then another. Lightning bolts kept piercing and detonating on the snake's head, and sharp energy waves dived inside it, ravaging its insides.
Khan couldn't give the Great Old One the chance to retaliate. He didn't know much about snakes, and that ancient creature probably had a different physiology, so he could only go for obvious weaknesses. The eyes and head were among the few of them.