Are you certain that we will be enough for this? Jonas asked ntally as he rose into the air with Tsubaki. Alongside him was an unfamiliar man whose entire body seed to be made of smooth, blue crystal.
The Keeper has assured that our powers alone will be sufficient for this task. The kitsune nodded her head. Their mission this ti had a far grander scale than anything that anyone had ever done before. They were to destroy a teor the size of Desbar’s moon to prevent the total destruction of Earth.
Naturally, since the teor had been discovered by a mortal organization, the news had quickly spread. A news announcent was made almost imdiately after the report had been filed to Rin’s superiors. They wanted to convince everyone to seek imdiate shelter, as only a divine intervention would be able to truly restore the planet’s surface if the teor were to hit.
At first, they wished to issue an evacuation order, but… how would they be able to evacuate everyone? There was only the single gate leading to a different world. With an activation ti of twenty seconds, and a maximum of one hundred people cramming together on the ring… They wouldn’t be able to save even a single percent of the world’s population.
Instead, people were given the only hope they could pray for. Tsubaki had contacted the dia to inform her that the mortal gods were making a move. She, along with the two other ascended mortals, would be personally going to destroy the teor.
This news spread like wildfire. Very soon, these three began to feel sothing that had previously belonged only to the true gods of the higher realm. With not only the people of Earth, but also the other worlds praying for their success, the divinities of billions of people beca linked. Their strengths surged together into the three mortal gods, drastically boosting their divine power.
Although gods were capable of recovering their divine energy naturally on their own, and even strengthening it through training, both of these things could be enhanced by the sincere worship of a large number of beings. Tsubaki’s light had been growing brighter and brighter since the announcent had been made, forcing her to suppress it more sharply. Jonas felt as if his community had expanded hundreds of tis over, as those who worshipped him had added themselves into his domain.
As for Tower, it was hard to read his expression, but he had noticed the change as well. It was particularly strong for him, who had never received a proper worshipper before. If the Keeper believes that this is within our power, let us have faith in him.
Jonas offered a small nod as the three of them left the planet’s atmosphere. Once in the void of space, Tsubaki wrapped her light around them, causing their speed to drastically increase. Within monts, they had stopped, able to see the massive teor. Its size was truly enough to cause alarm, like a jagged stone being thrown through the air. Tsubaki had stopped them all a fair distance away, roughly two thousand kiloters away.
At this range, they were just barely feeling the pull of the teor’s gravity, and its size completely encompassed their vision. Rember, no mana-based abilities. Tsubaki reminded, slowly extending her hands out to the side. Behind her, light began to pour in, forming a miniature sun.
I rember. Jonas nodded, clapping his hands together silently. Countless forms began to spread out behind him, phantoms summoned quickly enough to appear as a golden cloud. This army seed to stretch out in every direction, the numbers reaching the hundreds, thousands, soon even the millions.
anwhile, Tower stared at the teor. I require an evolved Disaster. He muttered, a black circle ripping open the space next to him, before it began to grow larger and larger.
“Don’t worry, Dale.” Terra smiled confidently as she set another card on the table. “Now that the three of them had been boosted by the faith of your worlds, let alone a teor like this… they temporarily have the power to destroy an entire planet on their own.”
I flinched a bit at that, glancing towards Terra. “Temporarily?” I had long since known that the power to destroy worlds was sothing that was possible within the second tier. I just didn’t expect that I would co across it so soon.
“That’s right. Destroying a planet is actually not that hard for people at our level. At the end of the day, it is just a mass of rock that needs to be broken. Unless the planet itself is enhanced, or it is in fact the disguised avatar of an energy being.” She spoke as if answering my true thoughts, before moving on to what I had actually asked.
“Regardless, yes. Once the faith they are receiving wanes, their powers will fall back down. Originally, at least one of them would have needed to burn their divinity to take down this teor. Now, it’s just a matter of them realizing their own power.”
I gave a small nod, focusing my ntal gaze on the scene. Jonas was summoning every monk and druid from within his community. Tsubaki was creating a massive ball of destructive light, the likes of which you would normally only see in an ani. And Towers was creating… sothing. It was sothing big, that much I could say for sure, but until it stepped through the gate he was creating I wouldn’t be able to tell exactly what it was.
As I thought that, there was movent within Towers’ gate, which had grown to be over a hundred kiloters in diater. A dark form was poking through the gate, showing bright white scales. It… took a mont to process the fact that the gate had been summoned only for the mouth of a creature to stick through, but that seed to be the case.
Massive jaws stretched from the top of the black field to the bottom, a bright light gathering in its mouth. Sharp fangs, each ten kiloters long on their own, rose from the jaws. When enough of the head had been exposed to show the slitted eyes, I knew that Towers was calling on the power of a draconic monster.
“Due to the warning of the Keeper’s Servant, Tsubaki, we are unable to show a projected model of this battle.” The news anchor said in a regretful tone, appearing within the hos of countless individuals. “However, we have turned so of our optical scopes towards the sight of the battle, so we are able to catch so images.”
After saying that, a large screen appeared beside the news anchor, showing the teor. Zooming in, the image showed a bright light, as well as what looked like an army standing before the approaching disaster. “Please note that these scenes will be a few seconds behind the actual events, due to the sheer distance involved. As you can see, they have already started to make their moves.”
“Everyone at ho, please… pray for their success.” After saying that, the news anchor went silent, and the scene of the battle expanded to cover the entire screen.
Tsubaki had initially been surprised to find how easy it was to amass her light sphere, which was now expanding above her head. Having experinted with it in the past, she had found that a sphere with a diater of ten ters was her previous limit. This was a sphere where the light and heat was condensed so greatly that most matter would vaporize upon contact. When she had created it within Earth’s atmosphere, it had created a fireball due to scorching the air.
Now, she held such a sphere above her head that was over a hundred ters in diater, and felt as if she could continue to let it grow further. However, she knew that she did not have ti for such a thing. Although she had adjusted their montum to be moving away from the teor as it approached, it was still drawing closer, pulling them with its gravitational field.
Okay, you two. Let’s do this. She communicated ntally to them, before waving her hand forward to cause the sphere of light to descend on the flying space rock.
At the sa ti, the monster that Towers summoned had opened its mouth wide, jaws distending. It fired a beam of concentrated light from its mouth, not at the teor, but at the ball that Tsubaki herself had just thrown. When the beam hit the glowing sphere, it seed to be absorbed into it which caused the sphere to grow even larger as it traveled.
At the sa ti, Jonas’s eyes shot open. The combined ki of every monk he had summoned was pouring into his body at once, and he tightened up his fist. His entire arm seed to radiate a brilliant, earthen glow which spread up above him like steam.
As the sphere of light crashed into the surface of the teor, smoke and debris scattered. The teor itself seed to tremble under the force of the crash, and the ball of light which continued to dig down beneath the surface.
Seeing that, Jonas pulled back his arm. The glowing ‘steam’ that had been escaping his arm was pulled back to form a thin film along his skin. His lips moved, but no words were heard in the emptiness of space as he thrust his closed fist forward.
A thin beam of light shot out from Jonas’s arm, piercing directly through the ball of light that Tsubaki had created. Barely a second later, the sa beam could be seen exiting the far side of the teor, leaving a fist-sized hole that penetrated it in its entirety. However, that wasn’t all.
After being pierced through by that beam, the ball of light trembled violently before erupting. The shockwave caused the three mortal gods to be thrown back several ters, even as they were fighting to maintain their positions. The damage to the teor itself, on the other hand, was far more extre.
Thick cracks spread out along the teor, each one releasing a towering mountain of dust and rock. At the point of impact, a wide crater could be seen, its edges smooth and molten. When the cracks had spread to cover the entire surface of the teor, Tsubaki noticed large chunks that began to break off. It’s not holding its shape anymore. We should be able to deal with the largest fragnts, with the rest being safe to let through.
Jonas nodded his head, calling on the druids that he had summoned. With so many working together to control the forces of nature, the rocks spread apart faster and faster, their speed also slowing to provide more ti for the gods to act.
“As you can see, the initial attack by the ascended have caused great destruction to the teor!” The news anchor called out in an excited voice. The hope that he was feeling seed to project out from the screens, ‘infecting’ those who saw the scene. “Maybe they really can prevent this disaster…”
“Scholars have determined that any teoroid entering the atmosphere in excess of a hundred ters diater would be enough to cause significant damage on a national scale. Depending on the density of the teor, any pieces smaller than that will cause more minor damage, or potentially explode within the atmosphere.”
“We are working in conjunction with the Astrological Research Foundation of Accal, also known as ARF, to constantly update the danger zones. When the ascended pull back, these zones will beco more stable. Those that have the ability to erect public defenses are urged to do so, while others are asked to remain in the nearest underground shelter available.”
As the anchor said that, the scene showed the rocks seeming to stop in front of the three ascended mortals. These rocks then continued to break down further and further, becoming smaller with every passing breath. Druids were not particularly renowned for their combat ability, but when it ca to terrain manipulation, there was nobody better.
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