All over the world, the aftermath of the portals from the Immortal Realms had left nations in chaos, and cities razed.
Only one portal had not started in or near a nation's capital, the attack that had targeted the Academy.
Mistakenly, Oobleck had thought that the dense population of more powerful beings had meant that it was something akin to a Royal Palace, a compound where the elites of this mortal world gathered, while the Capital itself had barely registered.
Common Rank humans had no detectable presence to an Immortal.
Though there were a million people in the city, to the Immortals, that felt no different from a colony of ants, which were also technically a million common rank lives.
