Lucian was not a fool; he knew the backlash was coming from using his Fourth Wall Breaking ability. He had touched upon something even ???, Romulus, and the likes could never reach or comprehend. One could not graze that echelon of authority and be left unscathed; there had to be a price. And his price was everything. He had lost it all.
Of course, Lucian had not known that such a backlash existed beforehand; after all, he had not even known the intricate details of the skill that had led to this very moment, let alone the consequences hidden beneath its activation. His soul had only conveyed to him that he possessed an insanely powerful last-card ability, a trump card beyond measure, and that had been all the knowledge granted.
