Chapter 176: Destruction
We left our hotel, each of us geared up and ready for war. We traveled out of Yildraza, the city lights shooting up into the sky. Torix hovered, keeping himself and Tohtella afloat with magic. Althea and I ran, destroying portions of the scenery as we leaped and dashed.
We stopped, regrouping just shy of the silver’s territory. We stood in a circle, everyone looking at . With cool wind at my back and soft ground under my feet, I stood up straight.
I raised a hand, “Look everybody. There’s so fucked up shit deep in silver territory. I an it. Keep your head down and execute the plan. Don’t think about failure. Don’t think about your surroundings. Focus on the mission.”
I clasped my hand into a fist,
“rjects will dive from above. If they get ahold of you, they’ll suck your brains out. Flesh Whales are vulnerable to fire but keep your distance. Their blood is hard to escape. Don’t fall asleep on the ground. There’s a thousand things that want to use your body as their egg sack.”
Althea winced. Tohtella gave a curt nod, jotting down notes. Torix grasped his hands behind him. I pointed towards the silvers,
“Outside of that, avoid the Skyburner’s jaws, tails, and fire breath. One hit from any of those three things, and you’re dead. Focus on their eyes and their mouths. Those are both vulnerable since they aren’t covered in armor or scales.”
I smacked my fists together, “Is everyone ready for so dragon jerky?”
Althea and Torix gave a nod. Tohtella’s brow creased. I waved my hands, “Uh, gialgathen jerky then.”
Tohtella frowned, “What? They’re lean predators. Their at would be stringy and lean. It would be like chewing a bundle of wires.”
I rolled my eyes, “Are you ready to eliminate the targets?”
She nodded, “Of course.”
“Alright then. Everyone check their status and finish any last updates.”
I opened my own status, checking out my levels. I leaned back from my status, finding myself with several thousand attribute points to allocate. I shouldn’t have let it pile up like this, but there was so much going on as of late.
Over the two days, I fought in the tournant, cleared out silvers, found the Skyburner’s base, and gained a mythical skill. It was a lot to juggle around. Either way, I poured all my points into endurance, then selected finalize. Even if everything else was complicated, working my status was surprisingly straightforward.
Sotis, simplicity was king.
Dinsion-C138(Level 6,521)
Strength – 7,036 | Constitution – 11,940 | Endurance – 49,306
Dexterity – 3,061 | Willpower – 27,375 | Intelligence – 10,173
Charisma – 1,777 | Luck – 3,437 | Perception – 4,009
Health: 9.60 Million/9.60 Million | Health Regen: 25.48 Million/min or 424,593/sec
Stamina: 6.01 Million/ 6.01 Million | Stamina Regen: 87,771/sec
Living Dinsion: 1.15 Trillion/4.30 Trillion
Mass: 554,537 pounds(251,533 kilos~)
Height: Actual -12’8(3.87 ters) | Current – 9’10
Damage Res – 98.5% | Dinsional Res – 49.25%
Phys Dam Bonus – 679,893% | Damage Bonus – 40%
Event Horizon – 20,000 (100% of your total health)/min
I raised my eyebrows, finding my perception over 4,000. I lifted a hand, staring at the tal. As I took a closer glance, I found thousands of layers. I squinted, finding the layers made of even more wires. I looked up, expanding my field of view.
I glanced around, spotting profound levels of detail. If I glanced close, I peered at tiny spots like a microscope almost. If I soaked it all in, a world of detail popped up. As it did, my head throbbed at the sheer complexity. Tiny insects in the grass, dust and pollen in the air, even the moisture in my breath, it all revealed itself to .
I shook my head, dulling my senses. I shifted my attention back to my status. My stats marched forward, their inevitable climb never failing to impress. I neared 50k with my endurance, and my health nearly eclipsed the ten million mark. If sumd it up in a word, ridiculous.
I closed the window, looking around. Althea still fiddled with her status, but everyone else was done. A minute later and she closed it. I pointed off in the distance once everyone was back in the ga,
“Follow several hundred feet behind . Let lead the charge. I’ll be killing the silvers, clearing a pathway until we get within earshot of the Skyburners.”
Everyone nodded. I ran out, getting about a football field away from them. I activated Event Horizon, thousands of Saysha screaming as they died. They lted into black sludge that evaporated. I ran forward, killing anything that ca up to .
I gibbed rjects, engorgs, and the organ caterpillars. Within an hour, flesh whales and other creatures popped back up. They crushed under my fists, so splattering from gravity wells alone. As I decimated the abundance of silvers, a ssage popped up in my notifications.
Althea Tolstoy(Giess: 1:14 3/05/26) – Tohtella’s not doubting you as much. You look brutal out there.
I grinned, squishing a rjects skull in my hand. As its purple blood splattered over , I protected my face mask with an antigravity panel. Ten minutes later, we reached within a mile of the Skyburner’s base. I shut down Event Horizon, waving my friends to .
They all stepped up. As they did, Tohtella adjusted her glasses, “Ahem. Would you mind disclosing how you sterilized your surroundings? It slls like a hospital full of corpses after you pass by.”
I shrugged, “It’s an aura. Hard to teach. Anyways, I’m about to fly up. You guys save as many of the slaves as you can.”
I turned to Tohtella, “Look, I’ll be honest with you here. This gray armor isn’t going to hold up.” I pointed at Torix, “You’re magic will get blown away when I land. She’s going to discover who I am. Better now than during the chaos.”
Torix sighed, “Perhaps. It is difficult to maintain a sight disruptive barrier around a teorite after all.”
I turned to Tohtella, “I’m trusting you here, alright? You tell other people, you’ll be my enemy.”
Tohtella frowned, “I understand your skepticism of . I am a woman of my word, however. This is no different than a confidential eting. In the sa manner as those events, I won’t disclose what you tell or who you are.”
I nodded, “Good.” I pressed the gray square over my armor, unveiling who I was. I rolled my shoulders, releasing my Mass Manipulation skill. My armor and bones cracked as I gained height, towering over everyone. I charged my runes, saturating them with mana.
Tohtella gasped, her jaw slack, “You’re…him…Wow…”
I raised a hand, “Yeah, we killed Yawm. We don’t have a lot of ti for that to soak in though.”
She looked back at the ground, “It all makes sense now. The hidden identity, the combat ability, even your presence. You’re not normal. You’re the living dinsion.”
I shrugged, “Eh, I’m Daniel. My real na isn’t so famous though. Either way, we have so frog-dragons to kill.”
Tohtella still stared at with starry eyes. She reached out a hand, dragging it down my chest, “I can’t believe you’re right here…It’s harder than steel like I thought…It’s smooth though…like glass.”
Althea popped her hand, glaring at Tohtella, “Co on business lady. Stop trying to feel up Daniel. We’ve got work to do.”
Tohtella’s eyes widened. She stared down, marking onto her clipboard. As I gazed closer, she was jotting down a bunch of jibberish. All the while, she blushed until she looked like a tomato. I glanced at Torix, and he t my eye.
He and I shared a conversation with that glance, each of us holding down so snickering. A minute later and Tohtella was back to her professional self. She coughed into her hand, “Ahem, excuse my surprise. We may proceed as planned.”
I nodded, “Then let’s go. I’ll make impact at 2:00 A.M. as planned guys.”
I turned around, jumping up into the air. My dark armor blended in with the night sky, keeping hidden from even the sharpest eyes. As I dived up, I relished my new freedom. I wasn’t squeezing myself with Mass Manipulation. I wasn’t covered in armor either. It felt good to be back to normal.
With that liberation, I shot into the night sky. The crisp cold of the upper atmosphere funneled around . The air thinned, letting speed up even further. Otherwise the friction off the air caused my armor to glow bright, making hard to miss. The entire ti, I charged my mana, saturating my blood.
As I reached an orbital altitude, my body radiated with energy. Vibrant streaks of crimson lightning shot out from . I quaked with potential energy, my entire fra wanting unleash destruction.
I stared down, finding vast plots of land stretched out before . The lights of Yildraza shined bright. The line of silver territory stretched far into the distance, winding like a river. I glanced around , the void of space encroaching from all angles besides below.
At the corners of my vision, the curve of Giess exposed itself. I glanced closer, finding gorgeous mountains and wide valleys. The purple sludge oceans lined up beside the vast seas. A path along the planet showed the line of the sunrise. It inched along, illuminating the planet.
All of that to say this – it was a view to last a lifeti.
All the perception paid off, letting soak it all in. I promised to co back here at so point. The cold wasn’t even bad. Before I lost any more ti, however, I readied myself. I lined up with the Skyburner camp using my minimap. A ssage popped up.
Torix Worm, of Darkhill(Giess: 1:58 3/05/26) – Go
I reversed my gravity well. I shot toward the ground, accelerating like a bullet. My stomach rose up into my chest, my eyes sinking back into my head. The ground beneath expanded, tiny plots turning into massive fields.
The friction from the air heated my skin. The water vapor near sizzled, evaporating. The air pressure shifted over and over, my ears popping again and again. A layer of superheated air passed over , a storm echoing in my eardrums.
The camp popped out of the forest of tal spires beneath . My armor glowed red hot, a warmth passing over . It shifted to white, both bright and blinding. I turned into a shooting star, my body holding together despite the situation.
My vision blurred. My bones rattled. My skin pulled on . The warmth turned into a burning sensation. My mana rippled out, sparks of lightning radiating at full force. All went silent as I outpaced the speed of sound.
The heat around dug into my health regeneration. I withstood the scorching air, my body staying stable. With the ground fast approaching, I ground my teeth and clenched my fists. It was ti.
The Skyburners stared up at as I ca down. I aid towards a cluster of three of them. One of them flapped his wings, flying away from . The other two stared like headless chickens. I reached within feet of them, a violet flare of light.
I made impact.
70% of my health dropped instantly. The collision let out an earth-shattering wave of light and sound. The tal, ground, and Skyburners around lted into a pool of magma. Beneath , the ground dipped as I quaked the earth.
A seismic wave shot out in all directions, upturning entire tal spires. The wall around the base smashed outwards, decimated by the kinetic shockwave. Nothing remained of the camp as I gained my bearings, leaving a wasteland behind .
I pulled up the surrounding magma with gravity. With a cyclone of light and fire enveloping , I stood. With my hands grasped firm, I turned towards the three Skyburners left. Covered in burns and stabbed with shrapnel, they fumbled in utter disarray amidst the chaos.
Above them, their general’s decapitated corpse leaked blood, impaled on bent spires. I glared at the gialgathens, my armor white. tal and stone liquefied under my feet as I stepped up out of the new crater. Scorching air plud upwards around as my flesh and bones reconstituted.
Violent arcs of crimson lightning shot off , mana deluging out like a flood. Event Horizon left nothing in my wake as the Skyburners stared in awe. I stood before them as the sound I outpaced erupted around us, ripping out a sonic boom.
Frozen in fear, the closest one choked out,
“It’s…the Harbinger.”
I raised a hand,
“And I usher forth cataclysm.”
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