As I finish speaking to Assassin, I look up to see a shining star in the sky suddenly shine into existence, growing brighter and brighter with every passing second. Thousands of kilometres up, well into the exosphere. Lightning crackles around it, and it burns ever brighter.
"I'd look out if I were you Assassin"
"What?" Assassin turns to look where I'm pointing.
The star bursts, and like a bolt of light streaks towards us both.
"
Lucifer (Devil-King of the Inferno)" [My name for my version of Papiyas]
The borders between the Self and the World switch. In an instant me and Assassin are within my Reality Marble and the spear of light passes through the after image left behind by Assassin's sudden vanishing.
She immediately begins screaming as the fires of my personal hell start burning her. Well, that's what happens when a sinful one enters my marble. If it wasn't mine, I myself would also be harmed. I tone down the fire where she is standing, and she turns to look at me growling. I hold my hands up.
"Sorry. I needed to get us both out of there quickly"
There's a cracking sound. I look around as cracks develop in the reality of my Marble.
"Oh my. Good thing we got out of there quickly. If that attack was powerful enough to disrupt my Marble, it would have most definitely been enough to kill us both"
I disengage the Reality Marble, and the borders between the Self and the World switch back. Just in case, I return us to the World a few hundred metres away from where we entered.
We both look around us. Where we were standing before, the entire neighbourhood is gone. Nothing but a massive pit, so deep I can't see the bottom. A terrible creaking sound fills the air as the Shard begins to lean to the side before dropping into the pit. It's top floors hit the other side of the chasm about 50 or so metres away from us, and the ground shakes. Then the top floors, pulled by gravity, also collapse and fall into the pit.
The buildings around the edges of the abyss are burning, and smoke is filling the air. I sense souls in the air, their corpses annhilated by the blast. I begin drawing in a few of the souls and eating them. Not that I need to replenish my mana. I had a huge stock already.
"Heh. Looks just like home" I say. "Well, not actually home. My home's a lot more peaceful. But the home I'm meant to have... well, this is a spitting image of it" I chuckle.
"What the hell was that?" Assassin asks.
"well... that archer you fought before? I guess he was something of a sore loser. He'd rather kill you than survive himself. And with an attack of that much mana expenditure, he's definitely dead now."
I turn to Assassin.
"So! I suspect that if your stunt with the airplane didn't attract any attention, that definitely did! So, I think that we should get out of here. Let's head to a place worthy of my status... Buckingham Palace!"
[So everybody. Basically everything in the centre of
this spot has been replaced with a massive hundred metre radius pit
