When the others realized what happened, they relaxed visibly knowing it had worked — all except Bernard who remained unconscious.On the other hand, the horror’s howls were still echoing loudly around them. Even now, it still survived tenaciously, a mixture of its healing factor and powerful body helping it hold on. But the effects were still minimal and the horror was quickly being ground to cosmic dust.But the Aeth were not worried about this. What they were worried about was what would happen if the black hole was left unchecked to grow.When this issue was brought up, Joyner replied reassuringly, “Everything’s going to be fine. Once the blackhole reaches a certain mass it won’t be able to hold itself together and will completely collapse into itself in one massive explosion.”“I made sure when I created it that it wouldn’t be able to affect Earth even if it explodes at this distance. Naturally, this also means that its devouring potential is low but it should be enough to deal wi
With Beatrice deploying the Anankulos’ Dial, she immediately set down a territory around them by locking down the surrounding space and isolating them from the rest of the world. In this territory, Beatrice could exert the greatest influence while preventing the battle fluctuations from affecting Earth.Already, things were getting seriously out of hand with this battle with powerful shock and impact waves spreading all over the place. They weren’t far away from Earth and everybody was already trying their best to contain their powers as much as possible. But at the current scale of the battle, it was becoming harder to hold back at all.At least with Beatrice’s powers, they wouldn’t have to worry about affecting Earth as much.Just then, Pamela suddenly drew everybody’s attention back to the battlefield.“What’s it doing now?”Turning to the battlefield, Arran and the others watched as the horror opened its wide maw in a silent howl. But instead of roaring in pain like usual, it kept
Down on earth, in the frozen frontier settlement where Arran and the others had first settled, Col. Vehe sat inside his office rapping his fingers rhythmically on the hardwood table while his aide and poltergeist watched on in silence. At this moment, both of them knew better than to make a noise cause they were well aware that the colonel was unsettled right now.Not only him, but they too felt uneasy about what was currently going on outside Earth’s atmosphere.By now, almost everybody — both humans and beasts alike — could feel the battle that was happening outside Earth between the Aeth and the decadent horror. All over the world, humans, beasts, plants, and anything with a smidgen of sentience looked up at the sky thinking about the fate of planet Earth.Nobody knew who was fighting out there. Only a few remaining leaders on earth had an inkling of what was going on but not the full details, and it was this that troubled them the most.Ever since a few minutes ago, Earth had comp
Strong tremors caused loud groans and shrieking of metal beams in the building's structure. Wooden boards creaked endlessly as large fractures appeared along the walls and ceilings of the colonel’s office sending splinters flying about. The cry of the very earth boomed thunderously across the clouds as if heralding the fall of the heavens.All about, every living being on earth — sentient or not — felt a palpitation in their hearts, a forewarning of imminent dangers looming on the horizon. When everything finally settled, people were left in a state of heart-wrenching fear and a premonition of a worse ordeal that was yet to come.In Col. Vehe’s office, the colonel, Duke, and Poltergeist stood frozen in place, their hearts beating frantically in their chests feeling like they would burst out at any moment. When everything had settled down, they remained standing long enough for their nerves to calm down. Only then did they look around themselves at the havoc that was caused in the offi
“Damn it! What the hell was that?”Back to the battlefield…Arran and the others had just recovered from the aftermath of the horrors self detonation. Having gathered together, they all overlooked the center of the explosion, deep in thought.“It looks like the horror self-detonated,” Sable said.“Well, no kidding wise guy. Way to state the obvious,” Pamela disparaged.“All in a day's work..” Sable responded without care.“That’s enough you too,” Joyner cut in before Pamela could respond preventing their banter from escalating.“Focus on the battle.”The others ignored the two clowners and pondered more serious issues like…“Why did the horror self detonate? It couldn’t have been to take us down with it right?” Beatrice asked.“I doubt it,” Arran replied.“As powerful as the self detonation was, it wouldn’t have been enough to finish us off at all. Not with us fully defending ourselves.”“It could be that it wanted to save its own skin,” Alec suggested.“At the cost of ending its own
Bang!There was a collision and a powerful impact wave swept through the surrounding space causing a storm of spatial winds to blow about, pushing Joyner and the other Aeth away and forcing them to squint.Urgh!Your Highness!Arran!Prince Arran!At once, cries of surprise and concern calling out to Arran came together as the Aeth looked at the point of impact where Arran had been standing.Shit! Save His Highness!Sable was the first to rush into the fray, his palms flowing with psychedelic light as two long swords formed in his hands. Without waiting for the impact waves to settle, Sable was prepared for an all-out attack.But then, a figure came flying out of the storm, white silvery wings flapping powerfully behind him with a red-black scythe in his hand, the half moon blade looping around him like a cradle.Seeing Arran’s figure Sable paused in his tracks while the others beamed with relief at his safety. But Arran’s voice rang urgently in their ears warning them.“Everyone, don
While Arran was fighting the revived horror, the others had already gathered some distance away from him, observing the battle taking place. Among them, Joyner had an arm around Alec’s neck while his other hung limply by his side, blood dripping from the cuff of his sleeve.Joyner’s face was pale as Alec supported him in joining the others. Seeing him like this, the others were concerned and Pamela asked, “How are you doing? Is the wound alright?”“It’s fine,” Joyner replied.“I’ve already applied a coagulant to stop the bleeding so I’ll be fine.”“I don’t know man, are you sure? It looks infected to me,” Sable said referring to the black lines that were snaking up Joyner’s arms and to the rest of the body.”Joyner reassured, “Don’t worry about it. It's to be expected from a dirty creature but I’ve got it under control.”Joyner was not merely performing lip service and trying to reassure everybody. While the ambush has been unexpected making it so that he could evade the attack by bec
[Shattered Meteor] was a dimensional refracting technique. A technique that could distort time and space allowing for instantaneous execution of moves in a single moment. It was how Arran could perform multiple slashes in a single second.With this technique, there was no upper limit to the number of moves one could execute, allowing for two, three, ten, sixteen moves, and upwards. Thus when combined with [Dark Curtain] and [Sever], a truly bloody scene would unfold.The body of the horror after being hit with [Shattered Meteor] was torn to shreds and with [Sever] taking effect, not a single piece of flesh remained intact on the horror.But Arran didn’t stop there, he went on to perform another round of attacks using [Shattered Meteor]. His goal was to reduce even those broken pieces of the horror into even smaller pieces to prevent the horror’s healing factor from coming into play. Even if just to slow it down, as long as Arran could land enough hits, he would be able to use the card