As I walk towards the last target I find a bunch of traps set up to stall me, so I just shadow step past them and arrive in front of a regular door to find an old man sitting there playing with a lighter. He flips it on and off again before he looks back at me.
"Isn't fire beautiful? The bright red, the heat and just everything about it is beautiful. So beautiful it destroys any ugly thing it touches." He flips his lighter again and I'm wondering if he's taken his meds.
"It burns and completely annihilate anything ugly, but only nature controls the burn. Or it used to before I got it, the ultimate power to tamper with natures laws! Now fire listens to me and only me!" Arsonist and a fire mage, of fucking course. He starts laughing as he flicks the lighter on again and the flame gets bigger.
"Is that your reason behind doing all this? Your just to fucking beautiful? Please tell me your shitting me." He just keeps up his insane laughter and a few basic fireball spells appear around the room.
"Of course, as the emperor of fire it's my job to burn the ugly. I'll make the world beautiful." As he says this he closes the lighter and sends all his fireballs at me. I just coat my body in Qi and take my scythe out while making a flying scythe in front of me.
The fireballs disperse and I feel that a bit of the fire was still on my cloak though it was burning through my Qi and not the cloak. I then start casting a multitude of shadow hands and strings as the king jumps out of his chair.
We stand somewhat close and I rush in as he tries to dodge back before being met by a shadow fist sending him right towards my dagger. He breaths some fire from his mouth hot enough that I have to dodge back into the hallway.
I jump back and make a bunch of shadow hands while I also make some shadow arms to hold shadow weapons before the king comes barreling out the door and I shoot my strings at him but the strings just burn up in a white flame.
I take my guns and start shooting and making shadow weapons while moving to an area that has a large enough area for a trap. I keep dodging the blasts of flames with a earth and shadow shields while doing my best to douse the fire in water.
He keeps sending attacks my way and I switch to using mana to coat my body as I send a golem that looks like me running while I hide and shoot another shadow string and the king flares up again, though I got the information I needed.
I bring him to an open area below and make a bunch of shadow spikes below while I destabilize the room and have him and the puppet fall into the room before all the spikes enclose on his location and he burns them all.
I smile and shadow step before him while having all my shadow hands shoot strings into his now vulnerable body as I take my laser cannons and fire it at him while taking a dagger with my right and stabbing him in the throat.
He instantly starts falling but I catch his throat before I lift him upwards and watch as his power disappears into the gem in my shoulder. I wait another minute for the body to turn to dust as I shadow step outside with a face from a guard I killed.
I sit on another building monitoring the news and nothing new pops up aside from the heading there now message. After monitoring the situation for a good hour nothing seems to be happening aside from removal of the corrupt and those in power backing out of anything illegal.
While this is going better than I expected, nothing crazy has going on aside from the news going absolutely crazy wit headlines and the like. As for the publics opinion of me, well it's something all right.
The general opinion was I was doing the right thing the wrong way, which I can't say I disagree with. Being a symbol of terror to those in power is really something else, they obviously weren't a fan.
I stay for another hour before I tear open space and go back home to find nothing having really changed aside from the fact I had a beer on my bedside table. I decide not to drink it as lie down and go over to the computer as I sit down on the chair.
I wait a few seconds before a blank monitor turns on and I sign before going online to play Devil's Tears 3 as I was recommended. I put the game to the hardest difficulty and I go to enjoy it.
After a few hours I finish the game and I take off my headphones while I look over to the other monitors to find my footage being edited and looking over at the streaming to find that it had gone to a blank backdrop though I'm assuming I just used my own playthrough.
"Sly Bastard." I mutter this as I open my door to find some sunlight and Angelica making some coffee and adding extra sugar.
"What do you want for breakfast?"
"Toast and scrambled eggs please." I go back and make what she requested before she starts eating, and while she's eating I make a few more energy pills before cutting a gash in space and going back to 'learn'