72 The Overseer (1/2)
*...CRACK*
*...*
*SHIIINGGGG-G-GGGG!!*
...
...
*SHIINNGGG...!!”
”What?!”
*RUMBLE!*
”The world..!!”
Within the view of the stupified elders and the trembling commander, an absolute sound chimed into their ears. Then, like a disconcerting realisation, they found that the world in front of them had darkened...
*GRRRRRRR*
Yet, within a single minute moment, a single blink, that darkness became a void-like nothingness! They found that, for miles, no, tens of miles, an empty nothingness encompassed their view!
”Second..!!”
An aggrieved cry resounded as the head-elder suddenly leapt back with a face full of fright! The commander was the only being capable of seeing this sudden retreat, and without even thinking, he followed suit!
*THUD*
Then, as if it were responding to their outcry, a quiet bang blasted outwards... However, this blast of billowing sound seemed to ignore the physical limits of the world!
Instead, as if it were light itself, it instantly passed through the world and onto all life within it!
This thud was akin to a worldwide broadcast, something that you cannot ignore! It is unable to be stopped, and it travels at a speed beyond sound!
This noise, a glorious racket! It was one that ringed in the heads of the elders closest to its source, ringing like chiming bells that were echoing in their hearts!
”Run..!!”
Fear beyond terror suddenly encompassed the entire realm as the elders and anyone in a thousand-mile proximity shook. A collection of paper-white faces brightened, then in a retreat in the dozens, the elders all collectively attempted to escape!
They didn't know why they felt so terrified, so utterly incapable of fighting back, but this feeling was the truest they could possibly experience!
*PSST*
Nevertheless, within the vision of the widening eyes of the elders and even the commander a couple miles back, a distraught and terrifying shockwave formed within this nothingness.
Even though it was within this emptiness where even light seemed to be suppressed, its gleam shined right into everyone's eyes...
It was pitch black, no, a golden black...
The instant it formed, the world froze and the heaven's bled. The void-like area trembled and everyone felt their blood boil.
”A second realm shockwave...”
A terror-stricken voice muttered, and with an even more wild aura, the head elder disregarded anyone around him and accelerated to his topmost speed!
*SHIINGG*
That shockwave didn't even seem to conform to reality as it instantly doubled in size! From a mile wide, it went to two!
”An exponential destruction...”
The commander's eyes widened as he gazed at the shockwave seething in a disastrous atmosphere. It's black tinged gold made his skin crawl, and as everything beneath it got revoked and returned to its most primal powers, he gulped.
”This is from a single speck?! The rumours were underestimating the power of the second!!”
His voice roared as his figure warped. He seemed to haze out of existence, and in a massive leap of speed, he appeared a couple of miles away. This was coincidentally where the head-elder was, and the elders who were weaker were only a couple of miles in front.
Still...
”I feel dizzy...”
Those elders seemed to be slowing down... A strange force was permeating the air, one that made thinking, moving and even using techniques difficult. It only grew, but this was not the growth of simple stature.
It was an exponential growth...
”It's expanding again..!!”
One of the elder's eyes widened even further as he was trying to escape!
*SHIINGG*
And from 2 miles, it, in an instantaneous bellow, encompassed 4 miles of the world in all directions!
A massive quantity of the world instantly vaporised, where the shockwave had actually encircled that empty nothingness and had finally reached an intact length of the land.
These elders trembled and quaked with terror as they attempted to fly faster. But, that force that permeated the air had actually doubled in strength!
”N-No!”
One of the elders cried out. The figure was of a petite girl, who with a pale face, had an aura of utter despair. She never would've thought that today of all days would be her ending grace, for she has lived for hundreds of years!
The longer you live, the less you want to die! That is a plague of cultivators, and when death befalls, feelings of indignation and unbridled horror would sweep them out of their usual illusive countenance!
Why does she have to die? She has lived a life of luxury as if she were the heavens herself, gazing down onto the many who could only be in awe of her beauty and power!
Yet, within a literal moment, that all falls before her in a cataclysmic shockwave beyond any common ground! Who said she would want to die for this sect? Who said that such a grand power would revoke any form of resistance?!
*SHIINNGGG*
Though, within her unwilling eyes, as she flew only a couple hundred meters more with the immense force weighing down on her, that same sundering chime thrashed her soul!
”THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!”
Her eyes turned bloodshot as she watched that shockwave that had paused twitch. This twitch seemed to play all too long in her eyes, and in the next moment, only blackness...
A blackness tinged with gold blasted her vision...
”GA-”
She couldn't even cry as she felt her entire body break down into a cloud of dust. This dust soon turned into a faint sprinkle of sparkles, and within this sparkle, a tiny soul attempted to escape.
But this soul was way to undeveloped in the first place to survive without a body. Even then, that wouldn't matter as a power beyond wrapped around it and burnt it alive like it were an insignificant splint.
*PSST*
The only noise representing her life was a tiny crackle of dim light, and even then this couldn't escape being devoured shortly after. Her life, but a grain, a little thing...