Chapter 80 - Root

In the void right above the position of the world a huge crack appeared exuding terrifying fluctuations, if one looked closely into the other side of the crack one could see bright luminous streams of golden energy forming a huge sea of light which although beautiful was extremely terrifying.

A part of the sea was redirected and started flowing out of the crack through the void causing countless explosions and numerous chaotic turbulence and heading straight towards the small green mass which represented the core world in which the holy grail war was taking place, before the sea of terrifying energy could continue on its pace a white robed figure stood in its way and with a white staff he split the terrifying attack in half dividing the sea making it pass by the core world unharmed.

The figure behind the crack exuded a mighty spiritual sense and locked on the figure that stopped its attack it was a bald man with long white flowing beards it was Makarov.

"Makarov" the voice conveyed its meaning through its spirit one could clearly feel the annoyance and anger hidden in it.

"Megatron" Makarov calmly replied with a humorous glint in his eye's while stroking his beard as his gaze passed through the crack and locked on the golden figure seated on the throne that signified the control of paradise. Megatron perceived the playful gaze and was enraged his anger almost turning into substance, he was so annoyed because of Constantine actions in the Holy grail world, when he noticed his connection with that world was missing he almost instinctively knew it was Constantine's doing after all no one knew him and could perform the act flawlessly without his knowledge better than Constantine, it was a naked act of revenge, although paradise was still connected to numerous worlds those were paradise world connections that is the faith, elemental energy, source power and souls belonged to the whole of paradise not his own personal belonging and the holy grail world was one of the few valuable core world which Metatron had a close personal connection with and Constantine had personally destroyed it and did not bother even covering up the act making known his actions to all who bothered to care, he had sent forth that sea of energy as an act of retaliation, although the attack was scary it couldn't destroy a fully functional core world.

Megatron naturally wouldn't destroy the core world in his fit of anger that would be a foolish act which would offend many forces and might even create a war forcing a lot of organizations in the void to besiege paradise, he only attacked to vent his bad breath and cause some damage to the world but Makarov's provocative actions of stopping attack and coupled with the subtle gaze Makarov sent him made Megatron lose his mind, he was about to get up and personally enter battle when he noticed another gaze from inside paradise locked in on his location, it was Kaiser the second in command of paradise, her gaze made the hot headed Megatron cool down and inspect himself he quickly noticed a subtle curse imposed on him by Constantine, another wave of anger and irritation washed over him but he quickly composed himself used the abundant energy in paradise to wash away the curse and clean up its influence and comeback to a calm state of mind.

Withdrawing his power, the cracks in the void over the core world started healing, Megatron could clearly capture the subtle flash of disappointment that flickered in Makarov's gaze but he said nothing and kept closing the void crack connecting the two locations, with his power withdrawn he could sense that Kaiser's gaze also left, he quietly let out a sigh of relief although he was seated on the throne of paradise he still had competitors as the control of paradise was shared between him and Kaiser.

Megatron held the biggest share thus was able to be the ruler of Paradise, but this could change once she found that he was acting to the detriment of paradise and acting on his impulse and aiming to attack a level 6 paragon for personal reason's was indeed acting contrary to the betterment of paradise using this as leverage she would be able to initiate some actions to erode his authority and influence on other angels and paradise as a whole and obtain more control over paradise ultimately ousting him from the throne.

Sitting back on his throne Megatron relaxed and focused his attention on the Holy Grail War happening in that world, he wanted to see what else Constantine had planned, he knew the sorcerer although spiteful would not spend such a huge amount of time, energy and favours just to spite him.

Layton was still in the same spot he was previously shot, he was waiting for it he didn't know what exactly Constantine had prepared but now that he was the only standing contestant present at the moment he guessed whatever Constantine had planned would activate soon, he didn't bother hurrying back to find Lilith, one because he was sure he would not make it in time before whatever Constantine had planned would activate and the other because he was sure he didn't need to be with Lilith for whatever was to happen, sure enough, a second later he felt a huge boom and beams of light shot into the sky from different directions, he felt himself being separated from reality from the present space, he also felt Lilith who was connected to him through the stigmata was also going through a similar process, Layton tried to use his colour haki to perceive the process but he felt nothing apart from the few traces in the beginning he felt nothing the whole movement was natural.

Immediately Layton found himself in a weird space there were other figures scattered around, looking around at the environment the ground was a sort of dark firm cement like substance and the sky above was made up of colourful streams of energy that exuded great beauty and danger. Looking at the number of people present in the space it was only a little over 50 people which was far less from Layton's original estimate, he guessed something had happened that drastically reduced the number of qualified contestants and he vaguely understood that this drastic reduction had a lot to do with that terrifying shot he blocked earlier from that woman, after all when she was evicted he could perceive that she had been killed not by old injuries or another attack but by an overdraft of her own energy and although the shot was terrifying Layton did not think it was so severe that it would cause an overdraft of that degree that would lead to instant death.

Just as Layton was lost in his thoughts a huge bang sounded and a few miles behind him emerged a huge whirlpool of various colours spinning at immense speeds that attracted the attention of everyone present, everyone could feel the terrifying fluctuations exuding from it anyone who set its gaze at the spectacle was awed and terrified no one bothered to think or inquire about what this phenomenon was, just looking at a name emerged in everyone's heart it was the ROOT!