Emir's managed to step back in time, or so he would've been able to in the real world.
There, all that he could do was watch as his body got blown up to smithereens, body parts flying off with his blood painting the ground.
Blink.
His body, a so-called Icon, was reconstructed in the same building but there was no destruction around him. It seemed that alongside his death was the reset of the virtual world, as it returned to its original state.
He didn't move a step forward, awaiting another boom, body staying still, eyes locked on the dining table in the room before him, which was separated from the room he stood on by a white void that cut the house in multiple halves.
This void of white was all around him, cutting through every structure and object, making each building have a random distance of nothingness in between.