All over the world, televisions, phones, and radios buzzed with one terrifying headline after another.
People were glued to their screens. Hearts pounding. Palms sweating.
It felt like the end of the world.
A female reporter appeared live on screen, her face pale and full of fear. Her hands trembled as she held the mic.
"We have just received more terrible news..." she said, her voice shaking. "I think this might be the unluckiest day in human history."
She looked down at her notes with wide, shocked eyes before continuing.
"Russia has announced that their nuclear missiles have been hacked," she said. "They swear they had no control over it. It wasn’t their decision to launch anything."
She paused to catch her breath, then added,
"Arica tried to stop the missile in the air… but their defense systems aren’t working either. They’ve been hacked too."
People watching the news at ho gasped. So covered their mouths. So dropped to their knees.
"This… This is global-level terrorism," the reporter continued, her voice cracking. "How is sothing like this even possible? Who could do this?! How did we let it happen?"
Chaos spread across cities. Streets were filled with screaming people, trying to call loved ones, running without direction. The fear was too much.
But the ones most frozen in horror… were the people of Arica.
They had only minutes left.
A nuke was coming. And it was coming fast.
All across the country, people cried. Families hugged each other tightly. Parents held their children close, whispering soft prayers.
So scread. So stood still in silent shock.
It was pure panic.
Just then, on the live broadcast, the female reporter’s assistant ran up to her and whispered sothing in her ear. Her eyes shot open in shock.
She suddenly shouted into the mic, her voice loud and frantic.
"Breaking news! Another breaking news!"
Everyone watching held their breath.
"The location where the missile will land has been found!" she shouted.
She paused as her lips quivered and her hands trembled.
"It will hit Mauna Loa!" she cried. "Mauna Loa in Hawaii, Arica! That’s the world’s largest active volcano!"
Her face turned ghost white as she scread the next words:
"This isn’t just a bomb—it’s an extinction!"
Her voice grew louder and more desperate.
"A catastrophe! A real catastrophe!!"
Suddenly, her eyes rolled back and her body fell to the ground.
She had fainted from the shock—live on cara.
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anwhile, in Japan…Everything was going according to plan.
“TELEPORT!” Sasha shouted.
Woshhhhhhh!
Scarlett vanished into thin air like a gust of wind disappearing into the night.
Sasha had done it—She successfully teleported her. It wasn’t easy. They needed the highest ranking teleporting artifact as support.
Se wiped the sweat from his forehead and took a deep breath.
“You’ve done your part, Sasha,” Arthur said . “Now it’s my turn.”
With that, he disappeared as well.
He had the ability to teleport too but teleporting soone like Scarlett was out of his league, Only expert like sasha could do it.
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Scarletta vision went completely white for a second. She felt her body spinning, her hair flying.
Then—whoosh—she was floating in the air, high above the ground.
“Huh?” she muttered, blinking in confusion. “A… volcano?”
Below her was a sea of glowing lava. The earth was shaking. The volcano was alive—angry—boiling with heat and danger.
What Scarlett didn’t know was that she was now in Arica, right above Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world.
She had never been to Arica before. She didn’t know this place.
Then—her gaze caught sothing in the sky.
A man. A middle-aged man with big muscles, his whole body burning in red-hot flas.
He was the sa one who could summon teoroids. In past attempts, he had been with Team A and Arthur, fighting against her. But now, it seed like Arthur had changed sides—he had created the perfect spot for this man to use his power.
The man scread, putting everything he had into his voice.
“teoroid Summon! teoroid Summon! teoroid Summon!”
From the sky, three huge, burning rocks ca crashing down.
Scarlett didn’t panic.
She smirked.
“You really think a few hot stones can kill ?” she said, raising one hand.
She ford her fingers into the shape of a gun.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
She shot three blasts of pure mana. Each one hit a teoroid perfectly—BOOM! CRACK! CRASH!
The teoroids shattered like glass, exploding into tiny bits.
But just as she relaxed, her blindfolded eyes widened.
From behind the broken teoroids, a giant missile flew past her at lightning speed.
It wasn’t ant for her.
It was heading straight for the volcano.
The teoroid was just an distraction, They wanted the missile to fly into the volcano without her realising it.
Scarlett was easily fast enough to catch a nuke missile and sent it back but it was her recklesness and greatly underestimating her opponent was the reason gheu could pull it off.
In short, Scarlett was just being lazy, Not a biy bothered by whatever they were doing.
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anwhile, on the ground…
Arthur stood a short distance away from Scarlett, watching from below.
“Everyone, activate the Energy-Shifting Barrier!” he shouted.
All around him, dozens of people began chanting spells. Glowing symbols and lights filled the sky. A huge white magic circle slowly spread out, wrapping itself around the entire volcano like a shield.
Arthur clenched his fists. His heart was racing.
“I’ve tried everything,” he thought. “Lava can’t lt her. A nuke can’t kill her. The only thing left… is space. The outside world itself!”
He gritted his teeth as the missile got closer and closer.
“No one have enough strength to throw her into space. But a planet-level explosion just might work…”
"But even if a nuke drops into the volcano, 99.999% energy would spread onto ground causing destruction instead of going up. "
He looked up at the people flying around the magic circle. They were tired, sweating, struggling—but they kept going.
“That’s why I brought them here,” he thought, his chest rising and falling faster. “This Energy-Shifting Reactor made from pure magic—it will send the explosion upward. Not outward. Not across the land. Just straight up.”
"This volcano beca an natural mana dense place, The mana is very pure in there, The explosion would be even dozens of tis more stronger than what it should be
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