Lucifer fell.
The pocket dimension had collapsed. It deposited him exactly where the Sovereign's Duel had initiated. But he was no longer standing on the back of a colossal dragon.
He was fifty thousand feet in the air and plummeted through the stratosphere.
The wind shrieked past his dark armor. It was a deafening freezing roar.
He did not panic. He analyzed his surroundings instantly.
Above him, the colossal bruised-purple eye of the Abyssal Sovereign was violently imploding.
The death of Malphas, the Demon King anchoring the rift from the inside, had shattered the dimensional stability.
The massive jagged edges of the tear were folding inward and crushed the green necrotic fire. The sky screamed as reality violently stitched itself back together.
[System Warning: Catastrophic Dimensional Implosion Detected!]
[Location: Upper Stratosphere.]
[Status: Abyssal Rift Collapsing.]
The sheer concussive shockwave of the collapsing rift hit Lucifer.
