Chapter 237: Unseen (1/2)

The evening sky below the Red River was insanely beautiful that it almost took their breath away. Erin who had stood next to Tyler the entire time was momentarily stunned by the amazing scene.

However, alarm bells suddenly began to go off in Tyler's head.

The moment his black hole had disappeared and the stars became vibrantly visible in the evening sky, everything went silent and the skies rapidly lost their glow. It was only a matter of time before even the vibrant stars would become invisible to the naked eyes.

The temperature had also begun rising rapidly as the sun's rays penetrated the planet without resistance.

Tyler immediately knew this was bad the moment he sensed it. With his current physique, his reaction time with thought acceleration was faster than a zeptosecond so everything he had perceived is yet to be realized as Uriel was playing the imminent future in his mind with FutureSight.

While he was not that fast normally, he knew he still had time to respond so Tyler immediately teleported into the outer atmosphere of Planet Neron. His black hole had frankly sucked in the entire outer atmosphere of more than half of the planet.

Disabling all of his other barriers including the one protecting Erin's source. He used the skill, Universal Barrier around the entire planet while augmenting it with spatial distortion. He was a science graduate and although he never really paid much attention to things like this, he knew what it meant the moment the skies got darker in the middle of the day.

The reason why it had gotten silent all of a sudden was due to the disappearance of most of its medium. It was a good thing he had the FutureSight else he would've reacted far too late based on the speed of sound.

'How back is this?'

{Answer: Half of Neron's outer atmosphere is now gone. The longer this persists the more damage it will cause. Possible solutions available, would you like to hear them?}

'That's a stupid question.'

Although Tyler didn't care for her overly polite nature right now, Uriel still provided him with various options in her usual tone and he immediately chose the least troublesome one amongst them.

Currently, his Universal barrier was protecting the planet from most of the dangerous rays of the sun but as that was not the purpose of the skill, it wouldn't last long.

He remembered back when Nadine had defeated the Vice guild leader of the Magic institute in a winged city, he had been challenged by three noble idiots. One of them had used a summoning spell they were not proficient with so he was able to memorize the magic circle for that summon.

However, a fire elemental was not what Tyler needed right now. He quickly began construction of the magic circle while making minute alterations as recommended by Uriel.

The original spell was only at the Tier 4 standard and a Tier 4 creature was far too weak to do what needed to be done so he needed to boost the spell as he activated it.

After making all the adjustments needed to change the element of the creature he wanted to summon. Tyler immediately boosted the spell as much as he could while maintaining his barrier.

”Summon Monster - Air Elemental.” (Tier 6)

Getting a Tier 6 Air elemental was perfect as it was nigh impossible to boost such a low-level spell to be able to summon a demigod-level creature.

The element of Air naturally contained all the gasses that made up the outer atmosphere and an Elemental at this level would be able to accurately control and create air at the atomic level to a certain degree.

At his spell, a giant ball of air formed in front of him, and soon, a massive creature made of air appeared before him. Tyler quickly gave a command and the creature went to work. It didn't take it long to restore the atmosphere as though nothing had happened.

He was relieved he hadn't accidentally destroyed the planet just because he was cleaning up a River. He was just about to disable his barrier around the planet when something unexpected happened.

*BOOM!!!

*Crack... Crack... Crack.

Tyler's expression changed the moment he saw cracks appear on his Nigh indestructible barrier. An emotion he hadn't felt for a long time suddenly gripped his heart but it was quickly suppressed by Uriel.

'What just happened?'

{Unable to Divine. Spatial Perception and Magic Sense confirms no presence close by.}

Tyler's eyes narrowed as his vision expands while using all his sensory-based skills simultaneously but just as Uriel had said, he was unable to find whatever it was that had slammed into his barrier.

'Is something out there.'

This was the first time Tyler had seen the stars from so close. The constellation was slightly different from the ones on earth but he didn't know what to make of it. He thought about leaving the atmosphere to investigate but hesitated.

Surviving in the void of space was no problem for him as a Demigod but whatever was capable of cracking his barrier was still out there. If he were to move carelessly without any information, he may die without even knowing why.

'Damn it!'

Tyler steeled himself then disabled the barrier around the planet and immediately created one around him instead, immediately himself for impact. However, nothing happened.

He waited for a while but he hadn't been attacked again and he was beginning to think he was imagining things. As there wasn't much he could do now, he decided to let this go for now and investigate the cosmos at a later date.

He then turned around and began to descend but as soon as he had turned his back to the void of space, he felt an ominous presence staring at him. However, after turning back around, said presence was gone.

'Wha... Hmm... how annoying.'

With increasing irritation, he dispelled his summoning spell and teleported back to the Red River where Erin was. She had already purified the River while he was gone so there was nothing left to do.

The Red River looked crystal clear and Tyler could see some ice forming on the surface already as normal water should be.

Looking up, he could see light amounts of clouds forming on their own. It wouldn't take long for the sky to be ashamed again for the duration of winter but that was a good thing.