Chapter 409: A Dream 2 (2/2)

The threads circulated around the shi+eld, creating a supersized lattice that extended outwards using the shi+eld as a centerpoint In a near instant, it covered the entirety of the planet in a h the entire world, like it was a pebble caught in thestream

"What is this?" said the One

"It's a coether I don't know if it's ever happened before or if it will ever happen again, but I sure as hell a this chance slip by now," said the Hero "The dile one of your soldiers – the woovernments and corporations in the world helped add our version of that web to Cyberspace – the space all of us are now linked to using mass produced neuralinks for humans and the Voice's hivemind for the variants

Everyup at the sky right noatching our battle, putting all their hopes, their dreams, their futures – all of it on an to glow froan to turn into pure white energy, slowly disasse his mortal body was meant to comprehend

Yet, as the Hero had done so

He did not yield

His shi+eld did not fall He would not let it He would let his entire body disintegrate before he dropped that shi+eld No, even if his body was gone, his ould keep it up

The indomitable will of the huainst the cruel inevitability of destruction that the universe promised

An indeterminate amount of tiy on this scale clashed, energy that drew fro the funda that one took for granted in reality becaless

But there was one undeniable truth at the end of it

The Herowas still standing

His shi+eld was still raised

The lattice around the planet was completely red, completely covered in cracks, liable to break apart with just one more tiny touch, but it was still there

"And now-," said the Hero His shi+eld gloith the energy of the cos across its surface He smiled and aimed the shi+eld at the One, at the Rift behind it "We win"

The power of destructive creation stored within the shi+eld unleashed forth towards the One

With that, humanity proved itself worthy to survive