Just as Raoul's words leave his mouth, Xuuvosic hears a low humming sound, much like when you run a wet finger around the rim of a crystal wine glass. It quickly grows in intensity and pitch, and when he and Raoul exchange glances, Xuuvosic sees Raoul's face waver, as if it were an image projected on the surface of a soap bubble.
Then the whining sound rapidly rises to an astonishingly loud level, and Raoul pitches over face-first in the dirt, with blood visibly leaking out of his ears as he clasps his hands to his head. Then there is a sizzling sound, and a tremendous flash as an arc of what looks like lightning shoots out of a bent spire nearby which has a large round crystal on it. It looks like some kind of a retransmitter, perhaps related to the mythal somehow.
Simultaneously a second bolt shoots out in another direction, and Xuuvosic sees it strike one of the demons that had been previously moving rubble around looking for survivors to finish off... except in that split second before the bolt hits, he realizes that it looks just like Raoul... if he were maybe 1000 years younger.
Then Xuuvosic himself is hurled backwards from the crash of the lightning hitting Raoul, and as he flies through the air he imagines that he can feel every eye in the smoking ruins of the city turn towards him to see what all the noise and fireworks are about...