"So you're saying it's a bad thing that the earth is changing so much so quickly?" Constantine asked Ruger for clarification.
"That is the case," Ruger confirmed.
"As I said, it takes time for the laws of another world to be fully assimilated, especially when said laws are completely opposite from each other and share no similarities whatsoever. This is the case between earth and the doom world."
"The laws of earth and the doom world are completely opposite from each other with little to no similarities at all. I won't say anything about some of the more obscure and difficult to understand and comprehend laws. Let us take the simple laws, for example."
"Using earth as an example, there are no laws that support supernatural and extraordinary powers or abilities. In other words, there is no transcendent system in place on earth and no laws that govern such a system. Because of this, such systems have not developed on earth and it is likely that they wou
"Earth and the dooms are both equally responsible for the speedy changes that are happening currently. The reason for this is that both play a vital part in the invasion of the otherworld." Ruger began his explanation."The relationship between planet earth and the doom world is that of defender and invader. The doom world is seeking to devour earth's origin and fuse with it to strengthen itself. Naturally, Earth will resist this invasion with all its might.""As I said before, the best way to invade and attempt to fuse with another world is for the invading world to pour its energy into the defending world and slowly influence and change the rules of the other world using its energy. As a defense mechanism, the world that is being invaded will attempt to expel this foreign energy so that it wouldn't affect it in any way. This is why the process is usually very slow.""Because the defending world tries to expel the foreign energy from itself, the invading world
After understanding the reason for the doom's constant invasion of earth and their relentless targeting of humans, Constantine no longer thought about it anymore. In any case, now that he was still in the doom world, he couldn't do anything about it at all.Besides, it's not like he had to care in any case. It didn't really matter to Constantine whether the dooms targeted humans or not, as long as his family was safe. He couldn't be expected to save humanity all by himself... that was the government's job.Probably the only thing Constantine could do was understand as much as he could about the invasion of the other world, and then he would see if there was a way for him to decimate this knowledge to the government and other humans on earth.Having come to this conclusion, Constantine addressed Ruger once more and asked, "I understand the role the dooms play in this invasion. So then tell me, how is Earth also responsible for what is happening so far?"Ru
In the vast desert landscape filled with fields of sprawling sands and high rising dunes, Constantine sat in deep contemplation. His mind was working fast to fully understand the things he had just learned from Ruger.Needless to say, earth's situation sounded grim when Ruger explained it in detail. From his words, there didn't seem to be any hope of earth winning against the otherworld. All the things it did were like the wailings of a drowning man who was in his final death throes... futile and damning.Feeling incredibly glum, Constantine asked Ruger doubtfully."Is there any hope for the Earth to survive this ordeal from the otherworld and are humans really going to be doomed to extinction?"It wasn't like Constantine was asking because he cared a whole deal for earth or the human race in general. Like most people, Constantine could barely care about the people he interacted with daily and he didn't concern himself very much with what went on in his n
"Why are you warning me of this?" Constantine asked Ruger doubtfully."Shouldn't you be more than happy to lead me around the nose so I could bump into one of those of your friends who could help you take over my body? I don't think you're generous enough to consider my well-being by warning me like this."Constantine was curious why Ruger would warn him about the dangers of relying solely on his memories to pave a way for himself and his family in the universe. From his understanding of Ruger, he wouldn't do anything unless it benefited him. Strictly speaking, the warning he gave to Constantine just now was unnecessary because it did not benefit Ruger in any way.In response to Constantine's question, Ruger asked, "Why do you think, genius?""It's obviously because I can't go out having people seeing me in this state. What would people think if they find out that I, Ruger Whitebrook, a once in an eon son of the firmament, was in a miserable state?"<
Was it worth it?To put his family's lives in danger by telling them the truth... was it really worth it?Constantine thought about it for a moment before he came to a conclusion.Whether it was worth it or not, was not up to Constantine to decide. No matter how things turned out, even if dangers really were going to come after them, then Constantine's family had the right to know exactly what they were likely to encounter.Constantine didn't want to make decisions for other people based on what he felt was right for them. He didn't want to be the sort of self-righteous guy who thought they were keeping others' best interests at heart when they were actually just being selfish.If there was a matter that involved another party, then Constantine preferred it if that party was actively involved in the said matter. He believed that a person was entitled to the right to make their own decisions in matters that affect them greatly no matter what the out
"As I said, the reason you can no longer increase your strength as fast as before is that you have reached the upper limit of your current strength. The best way to understand this is like this...""Take a bottle, for instance... imagine your body to be an empty bottle and your powers as the content that fills that bottle. The process of you growing stronger is actually you building a body that can perfectly contain the enormous amount of power that is contained inside you. Initially, your body is like an ordinary plastic bottle and your power is like acid or hot lave. Naturally, it is impossible for a plastic bottle to be able to contain acid or lava. That is why you need a stronger bottle, or in your case, you need to build a stronger body.""Are you following me?" Ruger paused his explanation and asked Constantine."Yeah, though my previous body being likened to a piece of plastic bottle is quite harsh but I am following nonetheless," Constantine replied.
Having learned what the true nature of constellation lightning from Ruger was, Constantine could definitely say for a fact that his body couldn't bear its full power at all. The only outcome of having so much stellar energy inside his body would be to have it crumble to ash.Finally, Constantine understood what Ruger was trying to tell him...When Ruger said that his power was enough for him to grow stronger, he literarily meant that the power contained in his body was only at the level of what he could currently endure without combusting into flames.With the constellation lightning power in him and having a body that had already adapted to it to the extent that it wouldn't be destroyed, all Constantine had to do was train his body to be able to grasp full control over his immense powers. This way, he would be able to reach the full potential of his current strength.This was in essence Constantine's limit to how much power his body could control. Once t
Far in the distance where Constantine was looking, he could see the signs of a sandstorm visible in the air. This was not a surprising sight to see in the desert. If there was any sight that was not missing in the desert, it was dunes and sandstorms.In any case, a sandstorm usually signaled that a herd of dooms is on the prowl. Normally Constantine would have gone ahead to investigate. But now that he had decided to rest, Constantine was not interested in going over at this time.Still, the thing that drew Constantine's attention to this particular sandstorm was its scale. The size of the sandstorm was unusually large... it was much larger than the few he had come across during his training.The Sandstorm was a few kilometers away from Constantine's location but as time looked; it was only a few meters away. This was just how large it was. Compared to the other sandstorms Constantine had come across, this was one of the largest. It was second only to the sandst
With his forehead covered in a nervous sweat, the leader watched as the rift turned into a black dot in space before finally closing completely. As soon as the rift closed, the leader’s shoulders dropped heavily as he breathed a deep sigh of relief. He suddenly felt weak at this moment as the pressure he was feeling in his heart was liberated, making him feel like he would suddenly collapse on the floor. But his training prevented him from doing so. Without the heavy weight of the rift hanging over his head, the leader could finally relax and breathe easily. Taking a moment to regain his composure, the leader turned to captain Keith and reported. “Sir, the rift had finally been closed.”“Good,” captain Keith responded. He continued, “Station a few men to keep watch here and report anything that happens. We don’t want the rift being opened again from the other side. In a while, this place will be turned into a quarantined zone as we wait for the tech guys to arrive and give this p
The leader hurried to close the rift, which consisted of detonating a set of small special grenades in the small room.On opposite sides of the rift, there were two tall pillar-like objects emitting pulsing light that shine on the dark rift. These two objects were spatial anchors... a kind of stabilizer that was used to maintain an open rift to prevent it from closed prematurely. Like I said before, natural rifts were more stable and could remain open for a very long time without closing. Instead of worrying about keeping a natural rift open, one would worry instead about getting it too close. On the other hand, an artificial rift was difficult to maintain, so stabilizers were needed to keep it open. Human research on space was very slow, and they hadn’t reached the point where they could open and close rifts in other worlds easily. The spatial anchors were a product of genius that had accidentally blossomed to fruition. It was with this anchor technology that the humans were confid
With one last look at Constantine, the leader finally stepped through the rift. In as much as he was reluctant to leave, the leader knew that staying would not help at all. Instead, it would bring more trouble to Constantine.Who told him to be weak and that he couldn’t lend his strength to Constantine?For that matter, whose fault was it that Earth was too weak to fight against the doom? There was nobody to blame, and they could only blame themselves. In any case, it wasn’t like the leader’s troubles were over. Waiting on the other side of the rift was a whole other set of problems that the leader would have to deal with...As soon as the leader came face to face with his superior. This was a man with the body of a giant. Standing at more than two meters tall, with large burly arms like the barrel of a tank, shoulders as broad as vinyl, and a hulking frame that towered over everybody else, dwarfing them in his shadow. This person was the superior officer in charge of the rescue miss
The leader’s face paled terribly when he saw the twenty-meter-tall doom still standing after taking that powerful lightning ball and coming out unfazed.He thought, ‘This is the end!’When the leader thought that he would be flattened, not meat paste in the next moment, his eyes opened wide in fear as he supported Constantine with his body.The leader's eyes were looking forward in a daze as he awaited his inevitable end. But after waiting for a few seconds, nothing happened. Shocked, the leader looked at the twenty-meter-tall doom in the distance, only to see that it was standing still without moving at all. Puzzled, the leader paid attention to it. That was when he noticed something he hadn’t done before. As the twenty-meter-tall doom stood silently in place, its dune-like body seemed to be loosening as sand flowed down to the desert continuously. Seeing this state, a single thought entered the leader’s mind...“It’s injured!”Once this thought entered his mind, the leader was ecs
The twenty-meter-tall doom finally revealed itself from underneath the sand. This was the first time the leader was seeing it and it was as shocking as he expected it to be. Figure-wise, the twenty-meter-tall doom was no different from the rest of the dooms. It still had the same dull red skin color that was like rust or dried blood and it possessed the same bloated body. All of these were common features of the creatures known as dooms. Still, compared to the other dooms, there were a few differences between them, the most obvious of which was the twenty-meter height that this menace stood. Another different feature was that, unlike the other dooms that possessed a perfect physical structure, the twenty-meter-tall doom seemed more like a mass of sand packed together in a single cluster. Its body was made up entirely of grains of sand that flowed constantly. The twenty-meter-tall doom was like a giant walking dune, with no fixed physical form except for the overall structure that
Bzzt! Bzzt!A powerful ball of lightning floated inches above Constantine’s head, giving off buzzing sounds of electricity as it hung suspended in the air. A layer of sweat covered Constantine’s face as exhaustion threatened to send him to his knees. Constantine’s arms were like lead, heavy, and it took all of his willpower to keep them upright to support the lightning ball. Hu!Resisting the urge to wipe the sweat from his eyes, Constantine stared dead ahead at the threat coming his way. The lightning ball above him had a diameter of five meters and it had taken almost all his power to condense it. Its power was naturally great, and it carried a shocking mite that was enough to scare a ten-meter-tall doom into retreating. But despite this, Constantine was clear that his lightning ball was not enough to stop the menace that was targeting him. A twenty-meter-tall doom!This should be the strongest doom that any human had ever encountered. Nothing was known about this doom. Probably
Run? The soldiers didn’t need Constantine to tell them before they did so. The sheer commotion from what was coming was greater than anything they had ever seen before. Rich experience from exploring the doom world for a year had thought these hardened soldiers that when faced with the unknown... the best decision was always to run. Just as Constantine’s voice fell, the leader ordered his men, “All soldiers fall back to the rift immediately. Abandon everything else and fall back!”Following the leader’s orders, the soldiers quickly turned their backs on the dooms they were confronting and ran back to the rift as fast as possible. Immediately, it was chaos all over the desert. Not only were the soldiers trying to escape, but the dooms were also in a mess as their formation completely collapsed and they ran all over the place in a panic. The soldiers were surprised to see that the dooms seemed to be more panicked than they were. Normally in situations where people abandoned all resis
After breaking through the blockade of the ten-meter-tall dooms, Constantine continued speeding his way towards the rift. Along the way, he also encountered more fierce resistance. But it wasn't anything he couldn't handle.Dooms below four meters in height could not stop Constantine at all and while it was tough to deal with four-meter and five-meter-tall dooms, it wasn't as hard as passing through a blockade of ten-meter-tall dooms so it was a piece of cake for Constantine.There were a few ten-meter-tall dooms that tried to stop him. But they did not form a blockade like the previous dooms. then the blockade was formed by not less than five ten-meter-tall dooms gathered together in a line. Due to their large size and the fact that Constantine didn't want to waste time by going around them, those dooms were able to block Constantine's way forward.Thankfully, apart from them, the other ten-meter tall dooms Constantine encountered was only in teams of two or three... nothing Constant
Ooouuu!Following a loud bellow, the ten-meter-tall dooms attacked. One of them shot its large hand forward like a boulder and slapped at Constantine, intending to crush him to bits.Bang!The blow came fast and suddenly and landed on the ground, causing a large explosion to erupt, blowing large clumps of sand everywhere like pellets of stray bullets.Although the dooms with their large and cumbersome bodies were not agile, they were able to instantaneously erupt with overwhelmingly crushing force in the blink of an eye. If one was not prepared, then they would be crushed to meat patty before they even knew it.Fortunately, Constantine was prepared. Before the doom could even land a hit on him, Constantine had already jumped out of harm's way, letting the doom's huge fist to land harmlessly on the ground.Constantine watched as the desert sand was split by the punch and a huge crater formed where he had previously been standing just a moment ago.Constantine's body chilled as he thoug