[Realm: Álfheimr]
[Location: Outskirts]
The attack came without warning.
The lightning Cerberus peeled away from the whole in a rupture of sparks, its form snapping. It leapt skyward, body folding inward as it spun, rotation accelerating until its outline blurred. Black lightning burst outward in large bursts, carving black lines through the air as a crescent-shaped slash tore free from its rotation and screamed toward Dante.
Dante saw it the instant it formed.
He moved in an instant, pushing off the ground in a sharp leap. The lightning slash passed where he had been an instant before and slammed into the ground behind him. The impact caused stone to fold inward like wet clay, the ground collapsing and erupting in a plume as black lightning crawled outward from the point of contact. The shockwave followed a breath later, ripping through the area and flattening what little remained upright.
