Before Taoist Ming Yu and his party had even returned to Celestial Xia, videos from Berkeley were already uploaded to the internet.
A cloud bank shimmering with multicolored lights, figures shrouded in golden radiance, ordinary people captured and taken away, a modern skyscraper annihilated by a thunderbolt...
"Is this for a new Hollywood movie? The latest installment of the Cloverfield Files?"
"Does it say what the movie's called? I'll go see it when I have time."
"Hahaha, not bad special effects. Zeus versus Odin? Did the Nordic Royal Court or Mount Olympus invade Blue Star or something?"
"It's real! I'm telling you, it's real!"
"My cousin's a janitor in Berkeley. He was there, but he was too shocked to record anything."
"The guy above me is full of it. I'm in Berkeley, and when I woke up this morning, everything was normal. No alien invasion, no apocalypse. I even had to go to my fucking job today. Why couldn't the aliens strike my boss dead with a thunderbolt?"
