243. Bursting Peas

243. Bursting Peas

Year 246

The Comet was still behind the veil. The barriers thickness recovered, which suggested that the demons had reconstruction abilities. They could somehow repair the Sun-Rings so quickly even after Alkas ability blew up and shattered a chunk of the Sun-Rings.

Yet the transmission the Comet emitted was sufficient. Itll cross the barrier in a year or two.

Well see it. This was a slow mo truck crash.

And somehow, I felt nervous.

***

Demon turtleworld. Roon and Johann arrived at the location, along with the void mages. What a name.

You know Lumoofs never been one for names. Roon chuckled and looked at the barren plains. As they explored the place a little more, it soon turned out there were more areas in the world than they initially expected, and some of which actually had some kind of murky, quasi-acidic pools and seas.

The demonic turtles were resistant to those acids and we observed them entering the acidic pools and seas.

Johann shrugged as more and more Valthorns arrived. This is going to be home for a while. Johann flicked a finger and out of nowhere, a small dragon emerged. The dragon finally hatched, and it was a golden dragon with absolutely beautiful scales.

There were already Valthorns who asked to buy any excess scales, something which Johann rejected. He was going to keep all of them, and then turn them into armor. Dragonscale armor sounded absolutely amazing.

The golden dragon hatchling breathed a golden flame that was not seen anywhere else, and even the mages wanted to study it. Dragonbreath. True dragonbreath was something lost to time, and everyone wanted to see it.

The little golden dragon wasnt big enough to carry Johann yet, but it ate voraciously. We shipped meat over by the truckloads, but honestly, we were not exactly sure what to feed it. In time, I wondered whether Johann would be able to control such a powerful dragon. Even with its current size, I already estimated it to be something in the level 80s or 90s. In its full strength, it might even be able to deal as much damage as the heroes.

Shouldnt we just hit the Core of this world just to fuck with the demons? Roon laughed, his equipment strapped to his back.

Think we can do that after we deal with the comet. Johann frowned. Were building a base in a place with a quasi-demon-king underneath us.

Its not very different from the Lavaworld.

You know the difference. Johann arched his eyebrows.

Roon laughed. Were here. Thats sufficient comfort for the guys here.

Over the next two to three months, the Valthorns discovered that the Demonic Turtleworld experienced regular, large amounts of tremors that shook the ground and moved some of the large barren sands. The tremors came from the core itself, as if something in the core of the planet kept moving.

Our base on the Demonic Turtleworld therefore had to be built with magical securing artifacts that altered the ground around them, such that the forces of such tremors were diverted away.

The turtles themselves were fairly easy foes, and despite being demons, they were surprisingly non-aggressive. They attacked when we got close, but these demons didnt seem to take the initiative to launch attacks. They were similar to the anti-magic giant lizards, they had high defenses, strong melee and close range attacks, and strong magic resistance.

But ultimately, they had certain weak points, such as their underbelly.

The void mages scanned the sky. The demonic turtleworld had some smaller asteroids around it that floated in space.

They were not immediately obvious, but once we found them, a group of them headed there immediately to set up a second position. The simple reason that the void mages had stronger power in space, and if we were not sure how close or far the demon comet will get when the paths actually cross.

So, the wider our range, the better our chances of actually catching the comet in its path.

***

My two domainholders fanned out the demonworld, and began stealing rift gates. Along with the daemolite next to them. We needed large quantities of daemolite to supply the void mana needed to open a portal to the cometworld as it passed by.

Normally, my potato storage units would be able to store the void mana, even with decay, but I didnt have enough clone seeds to deploy a clone on the Demon Turtleworld, and I also needed one clone seed to deploy on the Comet itself, if thats possible.

There was a suspicion from my mages, that the demons have a way of controlling worlds, and commanding them to move in the void sea. Just like how the Will of the World said that they could be commanded to do so. If this is the case, my clone will be required to reclaim control of this comets will of the world. That would allow us to then override the demons instructions and steer it away from collision.

In the meantime, we worked.

Daemolite. We collected so much daemolite from across the entire demon turtleworld, and bit by bit, moved them to the nearby asteroids. The Valthorns quickly set up a base, complete with all the life-support supplies needed to operate on a rock without breathable air.

We developed powerful earth magic, meant to move large amount of dirt and ground in a short period of time. The idea was that well need these earth magic to dig into the Comet, its likely not to have an open pit that we could just drop into. Powerful earth-escavation magic was created and stored on tens of thousands of magical scrolls. onic turtleworld transformed into warbase by the end of the year, with tens of thousands of bombs and various ordinances.

Magic truly is amazing. Skills too.

I know Ive been tasked with that comet stuff, but I was thinking that the best way forward is to amplify my own destructive abilities. I need to obtain some kind of ability that meshes well with my [Always a Bomb]. If I could get a multiplier effect, I could fundamentally be a mobile land mine to soften any demon king, and the comet.

That was quite true. Alka right now possessed the single strongest destructive ability that wasnt restricted by the void mana portals. I couldnt send certain types of superweapons through void mana, especially those loaded with way too much star mana.

Working with Stellas portals, I am effectively a nuclear bomb. The goal, therefore, is to make me into a bomb capable of cracking the comet. With our resources soon to be split, we will have a problem.

The demon king of the Mountainworld would arrive at the same time as when the Comet crossed the demon turtleworld, both estimated around Year 253.

I believe the heroes could handle it with my support. But it did mean some of the bombs would not go.

I could frontrun that invasion, and go to the demon world- Alka said.

If you die, and you have to be resurrected- we wont have you against the comet for a while. We dont know how long the respawn mechanism takes. Sure, I can send you against the demon king but that comes with risk.

Its worth it. Alka insisted. The size of that thing is monstrous. Were not going to get gains without gaining some levels.

If you can get on it, you can use your ability repeatedly to chip off the Comet.

What if the explosion causes it to change direction in the void sea?

That's the objective achieved. I answered.

Fair. But let me go chase some demon mothers in the heart of the demonic planets. We can start with the demonic houndworld. It seems like a fairly regular place. We have good people in charge of all the departments, we can let them handle it while we try to find and field more firepower.

I thought for a while, and decided he had a point. We didnt need my domain holders in charge of the nitty gritty details and administrative matters. They should be gaining levels, and providing direction with their experience.

Just like Stellas attempt to search for more resources.

***

Arias level 100 avatar joined Alka, Lumoof, Edna and Stella in his quest to gain levels. Sure, Aria was effectively level capped as a level 100 avatar, but they still gained experience from the battle. Also, just because the avatar was level 100, wasnt that big a restriction as I thought.

Aria could make really powerful equipment, which could then be wielded by the avatar. This effectively added 10 to 20 levels of combat power to the avatar.

Their first destination was the demonic houndworld, and they headed straight for the pits.

So we just nuke the demon mother and run? Lumoof said. Arent you worried we destroy the core while were at it?

Thats why youre here. You need to flush it out. I need to gain levels. You chase it out, force it out of the core, and it will come this way. I will nuke it when it gets anywhere near me. That should defeat it.

If this works we could free multiple demon worlds at the same time.

But what if there is a growing demon king in there. The demon mother wont leave the growing demon king alone.

Then we nuke that too.

But we might blow up the core. Thatll piss off the [system] and make us enemies of the world.

That- that doesnt sound good.

Lets just go down there and see what we have? If it doesnt work out we can find another world. That world before the barrierworld is another good candidate.

We shouldve done research.

No ones going to go into the pits without us domain holders being there. Lumoof frowned.

Ah. True. The things we do for the fate of the multiverse. Alka laughed.

Stella just rolled her eyes. Oh come on mister bomberman. Were getting close.

The core was similar to Parasiteworld. It was a hollow center filled with rocks, and just a gigantic sphere of rock that was the planetary core. It was a sphere with tunnels criss crossing its spherical structure, and a gigantic creature with its tentacles everywhere.

The demon mother.

It wasnt growing a demon king. Maybe not yet.

Well? Patriarch Lumoof, please do the honors? Edna teased.