Interlude: The Sun
["If the First Impact brought the creatures of fantasy to this world, and the Second Impact welcomed the structures of a faraway land here, then the Third Impact brought the greatest threats of all. Beings capable of mass destruction, entities of godlike strength and presence."]
[Shandong Province, China]
From atop the tallest skyscraper in the city of Rizhao, the man of an athletic build, dressed simply in a black t-shirt tucked into white sweatpants, looked onwards at the neighboring city–Qingdao.
At least, he observed what was left of it; the entirety of the port city was left as a smoldering region, bathed in flames that filled the sky above it with smoke.
Not a single structure remained standing within the boundaries of Qingdao, all having fallen to the wrathful inferno that endlessly burned the land.