Chapter 410: A Dream 3 (1/2)

Chapter 410: A Dreaement washed over the One

The One placed its six aries, to absorb or dissipate them somehow For a moment, the tidal wave of star speckled force stopped as if it hit a vertical dareyscale tear in space that acted not just as a diate to earth, but also as the main node of connection for the Grey to coordinate and function If the One did not stop this attack here and now, it would inevitably sunder the Rift apart, leading to the end of this invasion

However, the outcole was already decided The attack, capable of turning a planet into ashes in one fell ain by the reflective properties of the Hero's shi+eld It was not an attack that any being that existed within the scope of reason could hope to survive

"Your challenge…orthy," said the One The carapace around its fists began to crack, leaking white energy before its arrated entirely And with that, the wall that kept the flood of reflected power broke down

The energy wave coursed past the One Its forht in an ocean wave Powerful streams of force flowed into the Rift Like a sink, the Rift absorbed the entirety of the colossal attack The color drained grey scar in space briefly filled in with light, revealing a network of webs shi+ning with vibrant, rainbow iridescence

Only for a brief moment, however

The Rift closed upon itself in an abrupt instant, zipping shut to show nothing but the emptiness of space But it was a welcome stillness to the Hero He floated freely with a shtlessness of the universe with satisfaction

The satisfaction of victory Of being the Hero again, the Hero he had alanted to be To save the day for an entire world – he felt as if he had reached the height of his life He thought, just maybe, if he faded now, he would be happy hat he had done

Blood trickled from his closed eyes, and when it left the protective shi+eld layer that covered his skin, it froze up in the cold ean to fade as well, ato become visible in brief flickers

The countless little shi+elds he placed over each of his cells to protect hi in space, was now disappearing He turned around, reaching his arm back out towards the planet he called home, where all his friends, his lover, his unborn child, all the many lives that now had a future because of hih the frosty touch of space, a hand of warentle touch, nor ers wrapped around the base of the Hero's neck like ato die so quickly?" A voice crackled into the Hero's earlink He had thought it had been toasted in the cosmic scale confrontation he had with the One, but since it ithin his ear canal, it had been protected by his body shi+eld

"…Seth?"

"Yeah" The hand pulled the Hero away from the empty, lonely stretch of space and back towards home, towards the planet where the lives that owed their tomorrows to him awaited

"You…why did you come here?" said the Hero Seth Solar, like many villains, had been freed after the invasion of the Greys as huainst the formidable approach of the aliens If even variants could side with hu a duty as a huht as well

During the five years of conflict, Seth Solar had developed his powers to new heights, reaching higher even than his father to becoainst the Greys

"Because I pitied you," said Seth Solar "And because I'ht capable Alter left Withoutinto an ice block, and I don't think the world wants that"

Seth Solar fleards earth with the Hero in his one re hand The other had been torn off by an elite Grey that had taken the cholorokinetic powers of Valkyrie

That Grey was the final opponent Seth had taken out before the Rift closed and all the Greys dissipated, their extradimensional existences unable to maintain n realm

The Hero sot you far," said Seth Solar "It never broke you down under its weight It actually gave you strength I saw that and reconsidered how I thought about things I thought maybe I should try it out, too"

"That's not pity," said the Hero "Feeling for others, for those that have less, and fighting for the, it's e a hero"