Chapter 692 The End of The World

Chapter 692 The End of The World

"I was there when the world ended.

The sky shattered into a million pieces.

The blood of the gods turned the world red.

No... that was a lie.

I was there when the world ended.

We never knew it did."

—Testament of a Survivor.

"The world consciousness will not stop the arrival of these meteors," Archimedes screamed out in panic as the sky seemed to be falling, "As far as it is concerned the benefits far outweigh the lives that would be lost!"

The winds that erupted around them and for millions of miles around Trion were like a hurricane from the coldest depths of hell, the falling meteors were pushing the entire atmosphere down due to the heat of their entry into the planet, causing whirlwinds that blew so hard it lifted entire forests and cities into the air.

The number of people carried into the atmosphere from the impact of the winds could not be counted, their screams shrouded the entire planet, and these cries were carried by the winds until they could be heard even from outside the planet.

The world was ending!

Circe and Archimedes no longer held back, this was not a matter of profit any longer but of survival.

"You fool, stop it now, we can't..."

This was what Archimedes could only say before a massive meteorite that was as large as a mountain and bright like a star impacted to the sides, a few miles away from Circe.

The sound of that impact was indescribable, killing thousands of people.

The crash raised a wall of earth tens of thousands of feet tall, pushing more than a million tonnes of soil and rock to the side, crushing multiple thousands of people barely holding on under Circe's shield.

The shockwave of that impact was calamitous, so powerful that it crushed bones to powder and Circe was in the path of this calamity.

She screamed and the shield range doubled as the strength increased, Circe would not stop fighting against the end of the world and was determined to save as many people as she possibly could, but fate was a cruel mistress, laughing at her efforts, as four more massive meteors that were even bigger than the previous one crashed around her.

Unknown to her, a new danger arose when two of such massive Aether Crystals smashed together, due to their similar nature it caused them to unravel when they struck together. Whenever those happened, their delicate crystalline structure disentangled into a gaseous state, which was the more natural form of Aether.

The problem came about when the volume of Aether packed into each of these crystals was astonishing and when they unraveled, it was with a force similar to multiple thermonuclear bombs exploding at the same time.

With a scream of pain and desperation, self-preservation won over, she shielded only herself and Archimedes as her body was buried hundreds of feet under molten earth and crystallized Aether.

The continual sounds of explosions covered her cries of sorrow. She had seen the entire hundred miles of her caravan vapourised into ashes, and she could not imagine the loss of life spread throughout the surface of Trion.

The heat and the energy around them continued to build, and the Lightning Kirin in a stunning move of love and sacrifice expanded itself to become bigger and wrapped her body around Circe.

A massive explosion as multiple Aether Crystals clashed and exploded turned everything into a shade of white and red.