Chapter 98: The Sun Has Fallen (Patreon)

To be honest…

The West Port administrator and several dozen guards were standing at an altitude of ten thousand meters for the very first time, gazing toward the Millis Holy Kingdom's capital.

The distance was still far too great!!!

No matter how hard they strained their eyes, they couldn't make out anything of the capital.

Rudeus saw this and smiled.

"It's fine. We can't see the capital from here. As long as the Steady Cloud lets us watch the fireworks show, that's enough."

Trembling, the West Port administrator glanced down at the empty air beneath them. The whole town had shrunk to the size of a palm.

Only then did he venture a question. "Are you planning to set off the fireworks from here??"

Rudeus nodded with a smile. "That's right. Don't worry about the distance. I have a teleportation array, so I can make my fireworks appear all over the world in an instant!!!"

"!!!???"

At those words, sweat streamed down the West Port administrator's face.

Fireworks, all over the world.

Didn't that mean an attack could also be spread across the entire world in an instant!??

Only now!!

Based on the materials he had studied before, he grew even more afraid of the man in front of him, the God-rank mage Rudeus whom everyone called the Evil King.

Even so, it never occurred to him that the "fireworks" Rudeus spoke of were nuclear explosions!!

He only assumed Rudeus was showing off the impressive ability to teleport over long distances.

So although he was afraid, he wasn't yet terrified!!

Nodding…

He bowed his head with utmost respect to show his reverence.

But seeing this, Rudeus used Wind Magic to forcibly lift the administrator's head back up.

"Don't lower your head. How are you supposed to see the fireworks with your head down?"

"Y-yes, sir!!"

Having said that, the West Port administrator turned to the others. "Everyone, lift your heads too."

Hearing the administrator's words, the guards looked toward the Millis Holy Kingdom's capital, full of curiosity.

Likewise, Eris, Ghislaine and Dragon God Orsted gazed in the same direction with considerable anticipation, quietly waiting for Rudeus's fireworks show.

Only Nanahoshi Shizuka…

As someone from the same hometown as Rudeus, who had come here together with him and had received more than ten years of modern education, she naturally understood the many meanings fireworks carry.

What's more…

She also knew that Rudeus had just obtained the new-generation Nuclear Sprites. And now the Millis Holy Kingdom, blind to what was coming, had walked right into the muzzle of the gun.

It was a display of his strength and a way to intimidate his enemies. It declared that he hadn't come to slaughter. Yet at the same time, it would let his enemies live in enormous fear!!!

And along the way, it would let him test how well these newly researched Nuclear Sprites actually performed.

Several birds with one stone.

So…

What kind of fireworks show would it be???

Precisely because she understood, she was all the more excited about it!!

"The Holy Kingdom's capital probably doesn't know about any of this yet."

"When the show begins, I wonder what the capital will look like then??"

The more she thought about it…

the more radiant Nanahoshi Shizuka's smile became.

Sometimes, happiness really is that simple.

While those thoughts flashed through Nanahoshi Shizuka's mind, Rudeus…

had already aimed his palm squarely at the Millis Holy Kingdom's capital.

During this time, most of the Nuclear Sprites above the capital had moved out of the way. Only a few hundred, the ones needed to release the nuclear fireworks, stayed in place.

In front of Rudeus floated four invisible Nuclear Sprites, arranged in a matrix formation.

At first…

a small, white-hot ball of light appeared in front of his palm.

Then the ball swelled quickly, from the size of a ping-pong ball to a volleyball, then a basketball, and only stopped growing when it reached the size of a water vat.

In this way…

a ball of light two meters across was slowly pushed forward by Rudeus.

At that same instant!!!

The four Nuclear Sprites unleashed the patterns of a teleportation array. Like the mouth of a giant beast, they swallowed the two-meter ball of light in one gulp.

The next moment!!!

Far away…

above the Millis Holy Kingdom's capital, a two-meter ball of nuclear light appeared in front of a Nuclear Sprite.

And in that very instant!!!

The whole ball of nuclear light, freed from Rudeus's restraint, burst apart at once according to its preset program!!!!

And as it burst…

the hundreds of Nuclear Sprites around it went off like a chain reaction, bursting in the same instant!!!!

A huge flash of white…

and waves of unbearably scorching energy radiated outward!!

It was as if the sun itself were falling!!!!

The entire Millis Holy Kingdom capital was lit up in a blinding white!!!

Many people had been looking up at the sky, and in an instant they blinded themselves!

The Pope urgently ordered the magic barrier to be activated!!!

But relaying the order takes time.

And carrying it out takes time too!!!

At a moment like this…

how could there possibly be time!!!!

The first wave: a dazzling white-hot glare spread across the entire capital.

The second wave: a violent shockwave pounded the capital below again and again.

The houses began to sway and totter!!

Or rather, it seemed the whole of heaven and earth was swaying and tottering!!!

Doors and windows, shutters and all, crashed to the ground in heaps.

As for the things inside and outside the houses…

there was no need to say more.

Even though Rudeus had set the altitude very high!!

and the direction and force of the blast also tended toward the sky above!!

even so…

it still turned the entire Millis Holy Kingdom capital…

into a place that looked as if the sun had fallen, as if the end of the world had come!!!!!

And the single explosion was not the end of it.

Hundreds of smaller explosions followed right behind!!!!

Tremor after tremor, the heavens and earth quaking again and again.

No one understood what on earth was happening????

The sun!!!

Oh, sun, why would you fall!??

People couldn't figure it out. They simply couldn't figure it out.

As for the idea that this was the work of human hands??

Don't be ridiculous!!!

How could an end-of-the-world fall of the sun like this be something mankind could control!????