Free Web NovelChapter 267: Making An Entrance
However, the most disturbing sight was this crack in space, as though reality itself had split open.
It felt like the air was glass that had been cracked, with jagged lines spreading outward. And it was from this fissure in space that monsters had poured out from in waves you could measure. ƒreewebɳovel.com
This was what a dimensional break truly looked around
But it wasn’t just the creatures. The ground—and the short distance around the breach—had begun to change.
The immediate area no longer looked like part of the city. The ground had darkened, strange roots twisting outward, with what felt like pollen spreading into nearby structures.
The world inside the breach was bleeding into their reality.
Percival stared down, with his eyes wide. "Shit... that’s a lot of monsters. What the hell is all that around it?"
Bettie, who was also staring at it, answered, "It’s a world-end dimensional break. The fragments of an alien world that were once transported into the breach zone are now being drawn through the break, along with the creatures inside."
She paused briefly, watching the shifting terrain below. "These really confirms those theories that these alien monsters are trying to invade."
Ethan, on the other hand, was quiet because he calculated the numbers. "There’s too many, we need an advantage before we go in."
Then something clicked in his thoughts. Inside the A-ranked breach, Bettie had used a lightning-water combination to flush out and electrocute the monsters in a single strike.
His eyes sharpened. "I’ll create one."
But before anyone could ask what advantage, his body disappeared in a burst of black smoke, making a reappearance atop the moving jet.
The wind was violent at that altitude and blew against his clothes, but he stood firm.
Then his eyes changed as the Eyes of the Sage emerged in his gaze.
From that height, his vision zoomed in further, borrowing an extended-view skill from one of his summons. A sniper whose sight could reach up to three thousand meters.
But with his amplification effect, that range had now doubled.
From where he stood, Ethan’s sight stretched across over six thousand meters, scanning a large range of Qeatol’s broken landscape below.
He watched carefully for the sight of people, anyone still within that zone. Because what he was about to do wouldn’t leave room for mistakes.
The moment he confirmed there was none, Ethan shot upward with a flight spell, piercing through the clouds in a blur of motion, until he disappeared into the thick cover above the city.
And then, It began.
Slowly at first, thin streaks of lightning danced across his body in scattered arcs as his mana surged outward.
With his body being an infinite source of mana, the outflow continuously built and then escalated.
What started as scattered currents turned into a constant discharge of raw energy bursting from him and feeding into the clouds themselves.
The sky responded, and the clouds above Qeatol thickened unnaturally, darkening as they absorbed the charge.
A supercharged storm mass spread across the entire city, rumbling with the roar of thunder. And below, the world dimmed, with the only illumination now coming from the violent flashes flickering within the clouds.
Then—
BOOM.
A single bolt of pure lightning, so massive and blinding, dropped from the sky, tearing downward before splitting into branching secondary strikes. They spread outward like veins, crashing into the ground across the immediate zone.
The entire area was swallowed in light, sound and destruction. All at once.
——
The jet had already come down. Or rather, settled into a wide, open field just outside the worst of it.
The team stepped out one after the other, as their attention immediately turned towards that part of Qeatol where lightning still tore through sections of city.
Bolts crashed down in intervals, branching wildly across the ruined streets, as they were aftereffects of Ethan’s storm still very much alive.
For a moment, they just stood and watched the absolutely ridiculous scale.
Eduardo let out a breath, with a smile pulling at his lips. "Master Ethan really knows how to make an entry."
There was pride in his tone.
But as usual, Percival had already started moving. His gauntlets, Sunscar, were already fitted into his fists as he walked forward.
"Guys, we have to move. Take advantage of this opening."
That was all the reprimanding they needed. They followed immediately behind him, pushing forward until the aftermath came fully into view.
Bodies of monsters scattered across the area, some charred, some twitching, and some completely still.
Some were others ofcourse were still alive and trying to recover.
The air still crackled with residual charge as Ethan descended. He hovered in midair, lightning coursing around his transformed body and his eyes that now glowed the reddish-amber hue of a skyreaver dragon
His hand was raised slightly with electricity coiling around it. With this, he controlled the lightning in the clouds, summoning thin, streamlined bolts to strike the clusters of monsters just beginning to rise.
Around him, was Ragnarok floating and cutting through anything that got too close, clearing the immediate space without effort.
By the time the team reached him, there were no threats nearby. Not immediate ones atleast.
Because at a distance, further from them, not all of them had gone down.
Some were unaffected, and the pressure they gave off Was different.
Bettie’s narrowed her eyes. "Those ones... they’re stronger. Some of them are beyond S-rank, they could even pass as a boss of that breach."
Ethan glanced in that direction. "Seems this breach is more complicated than we thought."
He exhaled. "But we’re here already."
Around them, movement began again. The monsters that had survived, the ones recovering, and more Still pouring out from the fracture.
They began to converge and close in.
"Come." He whispered, and right then multiple magic circles brought forth his summons, even the lower-ranked ones that might not survive this.
But It didn’t matter right now because they needed numbers.
The team also responded accordingly, immediately taking action. The wolves among them shifted into true forms.
And as though not waiting any further, Eduardo drew his blade in one clean motion and burst forward.
The distance vanished in an instant as he crashed into the first line of monsters.
And just like that, the fight began with others following suit.
"Seal gravity." Valerie whispered, granting herself the effect of flight as she followed with Ethan and Isabella in the same line, moving through the air toward the fractured reality ahead, the point where more monsters continued to pour out.
Monsters filled their path ahead. Some were already being struck down by the lightning crashing into them from above, or Ragnarok slicing clean through their forms mid-flight.
But the ones that slipped through were met by Isabella’s arrows of darkness, fanning outward with precision as they pierced through bodies, knocking creatures out of the sky in rapid succession.
The battle stretched across the airspace and spilled into the streets below.
Wilson moved through it differently. His saber talent, now firmly at S-tier, showed in every motion. He slipped between monsters with his blade carving deep lethal cuts as he passed.
Each strike was placed well enough that the monsters staggered... and then dropped.
Unfortunately, Percival and Aliyah didn’t have that same ease.
Even with their SR-grade gauntlets—Sunscar and Cinder—boosting their combat strength by 25%, it only brought them to a level where they could properly engage the monsters.
Trade blows and perhaps hold their ground, but not overwhelm them outright.
Which was why they didn’t fight alone. Their synergy had made the difference.
A creature lunged as Percival met it head-on, catching both of its arms with his gauntlets locked against the impact.
Aliyah moved in rapid succession, grabbing its leg, and forcing its entire balance downward.
Then they punched it further down together, dishing a combined strike to its torso with an impact that sank it straight into the ground.
