"...Lord of the Xenom Temple." muttered Tetsue as he brought his giant cleaver down upon the boy and his corpse-bride, ripping the two in half before crashing into the pavement below. Near by windows rattled and the debris cleared immediately around the Lord from the sheer force of his blow. He then glanced around with a thoughtless gaze, peering over to where he had landed; a crater of immense size had formed in the intersecting street with the bottoms of each building at each corner completely blown out.
It seems I have to work on my landing... He thought to himself before turning his back to the destruction to casually walk away as the structures began to sway inwards as the supports had been broken. With each step the Lord took in each being that had fallen just from his arrival, counting upwards of a hundred and felt nothing. Not pride, not remorse. Nothing. They were simply pebbles upon the path of chaos he had been planning to build. They would be his foundation.
Of course, not like the foundations of these buildings where the last of the support beams snapped under the shifting weight causing the four buildings to slam inward upon each other, crashing down while flooding the streets with such a thick cloud of debris that any stragglers within the chaos would be consumed and drownedin floating dirt. He, however, walked unphased by this. If anything the debris actually shifted around him as if afraid to touch the Lord of the Blood Sands, and they very well should be.
It was not until the last of the crumbling structures had settled, now far behind him, that he heard a secondary boom. At first he thought of it as enemies initiating an assault, to which he reacted by sliding his bare feet apart and lowered his body in preperation. But nothing happened. Instead, after a few seconds he felt rather stupid for reacting this way and just happened to glance at the sky above.
His eyes widened.
A portal, it seems, had ripped open high in the sky, nearly invisible to the eye from the great distance. But that is not what he took note of, no. It was the stream of fire that propelled through the sky aiming to collide near the city. Was this the Human counter measure? Had they already prepared for his arrival and decided to wipe out the entire city along with Tetsue?
Immediately the warrior kicked off from where he stood while the pavement around him exploded upwards from the immense force as he 'flew' up along the side of a building, even bringing his feet against the glass to run up. With a flashy front flip he curved over the edge and straightened himself before casually walking towards the other edge just in time to watch the massive flaming object strike the ground and braced himself for the initial shockwave.
But there was none.
The ground did vibrate, however, but it looked like whatever the object was had slowed down enough to actually land. And that was when he saw it. The giant beast that stood just outside the cities limits. His heart began to race as his eyes focused and his hands curled to fists, tensing his entire body. But this was not fear. This was excitement. Something so monsterous...it had to be some form of Deity. And he was the God-Killer. Another beast to add to his collection that lay dormant within his God-Eater.
Wait...no. What is...is that a man? He thought to himself, narrowing his eyes as a much smaller object seemed to have fallen from the head and started moving towards the City. Perhaps it was just a very large human? Curious, however, his eyes shifted down to the debris cloud that had continued filling throughout the streets where some strands had even been on the path to the black dot and its beast. Perhaps he would be swept away like the remaining humans that were unfortunate enough to have not gotten away.
But then the Lord had to tilt his head as curiosity arose the moment he witnessed the dot disappear behind one of the skyscrapers for a brief moment, only to have the windows rattle, the sounds of breaking glass. Is..is he walking through the building? The Lord had never smiled so much in his life.
Locked away in his Temple for years in solitude had left his retiring years as a fighter rather lax, but here before him walked an opportunity. The Lord had wanted to die for many years now, but was cursed with victory after victory. Perhaps this was his chance to die? Perhaps he would finally be free of his burden as Lord of Xenom. Was this...it?
Flooding emotions of excitement and happiness filled his very core and in turn he leapt forwards, stomping upon the tops of each skyscraper he leap-frogged with before cutting one of his jumps short. With a graceful flip he straightened his legs and outstretched his arms mid-flip before allowing himself to fall head first down towards the street where the beast was about to appear, of course after smashing through his building.
With that much more grace, last second he shifted his body into another flip to smash his bare feet into the ground. The explosion from the impact was so fierce the flying cars above even wavered to collide and crash with each other, letting balls of flaming metal to fall from the sky around them. The shockwave below, however, ripped apart the base of several buildings and emptied their entire street of debris as it was all pushed aside.
Slowly the warrior stood and drew his giant cleaver up to rest the backend upon his shoulder before turning over a rather serious face, letting his dark red eyes peer at the beast as it finally came into view. It was much more fearsome than Tetsue had inticipated, and looking far stronger than he could have hoped.
"I'm going to kill you and take your body."