Ainz - Fallen Down

“Okay, shall we?” Power flowed into his determined eyes—

“Super-Tier Magic: Fallen Down!”

There was a noise—a sizzle, like a burning stick being thrown, dropped into water.

The spell beyond tiers turned everything white as if the sun were manifesting on the earth. The heat created expanded quickly and greedily devoured everything in the area.

The spectacle of total death lasted about five seconds. But it felt tens of times longer. Eventually the white world disappeared, and inside the huge circle that was the wake of the extreme heat, which had vanished as quickly as it had appeared, the scenery had completely changed.

Nothing was affected outside the area of effect. The trees were just as they had been, and the soil was still teeming with life as a forest’s should be. It was the same forest—an utterly normal forest.

What was left inside the area of effect, however, was a surprisingly vast plot of dead, blackened earth. The terrible amount of heat that had raged through had burned up the vegetation; all that remained were bits of the roots of huge trees that had carbonized. There were even parts of the ground that had turned to glass, and some patches were still smoking.

Standing right on the edge of this world that allowed no living things, Ainz was pierced by a horrifying presence coming from inside.

There was only one possible source.

There was no other being that could have survived an amount of heat that would kill all life.

“K-kaahhhhghghg, kahhhhgh.” Mixed in with the strange voice that reached Ainz’s ears was something like the sound of grinding teeth.

When he turned toward the voice, he saw crimson in the monochrome black world.

Her whole body smoking, Shalltear Bloodfallen sneered. “That wasn’t enough to kill me!” Her crimson eyes, full of enmity and murder, bore straight at him. “Lord Aiiiiiinz! That kiiiiinda hurt!” She stepped slowly forward. The scorched earth cracked under her feet.

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Volume 3, Chapter 4.2-5.1