Chapter 580
It took him far too long to realize it was even doing anything at all, instead assuming the movement he was seeing was nothing more than an extension of the strange, ever-present warping it was going through, but he was wrong. Tendrils of it were stretching out in all directions and in one movement they smashed down, hitting against the earth and sky, bringing a sharp sound of cracking with it that shook Ben to his core and let him alone see the consequences that the seemingly random act had.
More than just its effect of shaking the world around them, knocking down trees in all directions and throwing up plumes of dirt into the sky, each strike resulted in a series of cracks lingering in space itself. Each only existing for a few seconds at most before healing under the universes own power but all undeniably there, their existence worrying enough to pull his mind from the unnatural monster before him.
God, I really really dont want to know what will happen if it keeps doing that.
Seeing it only made the countdown to demise start ticking faster in his head as he directed Thera to get closer, the entire time trying to think about what they could possibly do. The thing was floating in the sky and had to be kilometers across, even if they managed to kill it, bringing it down would likely be devastating to the area around them.
Not that theres actually a choice in the matter here. Maybe if we manage to get lucky then it will be as light as styrofoam and wont have an effect similar to dropping a giant meteor on the planet. Which would mean thered only be a giant uninhabited region that nobody could go to because going anywhere near this huge thing might still break their mind even with it dead. Great. Not to mention what would happen if it undergoes some form of decay and starts polluting the world with whatever its made of. Okay, note to self, assuming I live, find a way to get off this planet. For now, back to the task at hand. Theras going to be burning a lot of mana for this.
Knowing they were going to need plenty of rainbow mana crystal, Ben broke the enchantment on the soul crystal hed already made while at the same time getting Thera to cast her new spell, watching as ghosts escaped it, only to be forced into peace meer seconds later, freeing up the resource for his own use as he used his magic to break it down into a few hundred small bullets, each waiting to be enchanted upon as he drove up the speed of his minds to their newest maximum, turning each into a modified version of a soul crystal while adding only a few noticeable differences.
The first was strengthening them to the extreme. Hed made bullets and fully intended to shoot them, meaning the force of firing couldnt be allowed to destroy them or the enchantments along the way or upon impact. If they couldnt stay whole then they had no chance.
So with him acting as the eyes of them both, Thera beside him held forth her staff and ripped giant chunks of stone from the ground below before shooting them out, the blowback from the force of fire kicking up wind around them as Ben watched it strike, not hitting the point he was hoping for but still making contact with the creature itself, with no effect other than seeming to get its attention.
All at once, a tendril that hadnt existed in normal space only seconds before appeared from nowhere and smacked down towards them as Ben made Thera move, the two going far faster than hed ever want to when she was driving blind as he took his own turn to shoot, feeling the recoil of his overpowered gun kicking back at his arms as bullet blasted off. Each one was too small to see with any certainty if theyd actually hit, all he could do was trust that the small spasming he was seeing every now and then from the beast was a good sign and hope for the best as Thera fired off another attack, bringing even more tendrils with it as it tried to fight back.
Wait, are we actually doing this? Are we hurting it?
It was a hopeful thought, but one quickly lost to the reality of the situation. Sure, it was swatting at them, but more and more that seemed less like an attack than it did the equivalent of a person knocking away at a fly. At most, it was an annoyance to be dealt with as it continued to lazily drift through the sky like a cloud, uncaring of the destruction it caused along the way.
Which means nothings even going to start till I can figure out how to actually hurt it.
That left the question of how. It seemed strong and sturdy and at that size, there was only so much they could be done. While he thought that Theras attacks were doing some sort of damage, in the grand scheme of it all it looked like nothing against the scope of the rest of its body. Completely negligible in the face of the scale it existed on. It was like trying to chip away at a mountain.
But even mountains can be worn away. He told himself. Figure out how to do that and then we can worry about just how bad doing anything that could get its attention could be after.
For the time being, he was going to experiment.
