Free Web NovelChapter 382: The Big Bang
{Sir Benjamin, please consider carefully what my Master is urgently telling you right now. Your Power Stones alone are already very destructive on their own. Let us not add an Elemental Stone into the mix as well. It might cause widespread damages and consequences that even you do not intend to shoulder or be responsible for later.} {Stem} ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
"Awwn! Your slightly husky and sleepy tone rings so nicely in my head," Benjamin giggled playfully, the sound light and mischievous as it carried across the bloodied beach, with the distant crashing of waves and the low, mournful wails of the injured Tentamono.
Tensei let out a heavy sigh and facepalmed dramatically, dragging his hand slowly down his face in pure exasperation.
His wolf ears twitched in irritation as his golden eyes narrowed.
Meanwhile, Sys’s presence in the mental link shifted noticeably, carrying a subtle undercurrent of jealousy that leake, due to Benjamin and Stem speaking.
"But you think I plan on actually adding an elemental stone in the mix?" Benjamin continued, tilting his head slightly as the wind whipped his hair around his face, his expression one of innocence.
"Eh?" Tensei blinked rapidly in confusion, lowering his hand from his face while his wings rustled uneasily behind him. freewebnoveℓ.com
His slippers shifted deeper into the soft sand as he took a small step forward. "But that wasn’t what you said earlier? You made it sound like you were going to combine them dangerously!"
"No, no. I said I intend to use my destructive stone and the world’s own destructive energy," Benjamin explained patiently, his voice calm yet filled with growing excitement as he gestured with his non-crystallized hand toward the colossal Daitentamono looming overhead.
The giant beast’s shadow continued to swallow the beach in darkness, making the orange sunset feel distant and insignificant. "Using only one elemental stone won’t solve that problem at all. To properly draw out the world’s own primal energy, theoretically, I would need to merge all the elemental stones I currently have on me at once."
Tensei now felt a genuine urge to run away for his life, his heart skipping several beats as a cold chill ran down his spine despite the warm sea breeze.
His tail stiffened behind him.
"...All...?" he whispered hoarsely, his voice barely audible over the rumbling tremors coming from the giant monster’s building attack.
His eyes darted upward toward the sky where dark clouds were already swirling unnaturally. "Benjamin, I believe I am getting something very wrong here, so please correct me if I am mistaken: are you saying... you can make ALL the elemental stones...?"
"Hahaha! I wish, I wish!" Benjamin laughed loudly, the sound booming across the isolated beach as his crystallized right arm swelled dramatically, now twice the size of his entire body.
The crystalline structure cracked and shifted with audible grinding noises, glowing with inner multicolored light while veins of raw energy pulsed visibly beneath the surface.
He continued: "Not ALL the elemental stones. I don’t have much of the lightning and darkness stones yet. But yeah, the rest are all safely stored in my arsenal: fire, water, ice, earth, wind, and even the special ones like silver stone, holy stone, light stone, and golden stone. I don’t have darkness stone and lightning stone yet. But I think the ones I do have will be more than enough to create the primal force of destruction that originally formed the world and still exists as its hidden battery."
"..." Tensei stood speechless for a long moment, his mouth opening and closing as words failed him.
Fearing he might come across as a complete fool in front of the increasingly unhinged man, he turned his attention inward and asked Stem directly through their private link instead.
His hands trembled slightly around the hilt of his katana, the alternating golden and silver blade flickering uncertainly in response to the overwhelming energies building around them.
[Uhm... I thought there were only five elemental stones?] Tensei asked mentally, his thoughts laced with real confusion and growing dread as he kept one eye on the sky where Daitentamono’s mouth continued to widen like a gaping abyss filled with swirling molten orange and crimson light.
{...That is correct. Only fire, water, wind, ice, and earth can be properly used as true Elemental Stones. The other ones Sir Benjamin listed are simply different elements. There are no historical records in any archive of those ones ever existing as crystallized forms of primal force. It appears Sir Benjamin is quite the anomaly... one that is naive enough to exist in this world. He may soon attempt to create a "human" stone one day and proudly claim he has unlocked something brilliant...} {Stem}
[Really?!] Benjamin chimed in immediately, his mental voice bursting with genuine amazement as he eavesdropped through the shared connection.
His crystallized arm continued expanding, now crackling with visible arcs of multicolored energy that lit up the darkened beach like miniature lightning storms. [But Lotus told me all elements could eventually have crystallized forms... Well, she did also say it was mostly theoretical and she didn’t know anyone who had actually done it. But she insisted it wasn’t impossible.]
[Yes, similar to how it is technically possible for a human to become a god, but no one ever actually succeeds! And wait, what are you doing in here? I didn’t invite you!] Tensei shot back urgently, his mental tone rising with panic. [Anyway, Benjamin, your Power Stones alone should be more than enough for this! Please hold off on adding the elemental stones. I have a very bad feeling about where this is heading!]
{Everything is fully ready on my end, Master. Shall we proceed with the activation?} Sys asked smoothly, her mental presence steady but very eager despite the jealousy from earlier.
[Mix it all in!!] Benjamin declared internally with unrestrained enthusiasm, completely ignoring Tensei’s warnings now. [A cocktail of destruction I shall dub "The Big Bang!!"]
Benjamin wasn’t even listening to Tensei’s frantic protests anymore.
His right arm transformed dramatically, swelling outward into a monstrous limb now five times bigger than his entire body.
Rough crystalline horns and jagged edges protruded wildly from the surface as it pulsed with chaotic power, the sheer size forcing him to brace his legs wider apart in the sand to maintain balance.
The air around the arm warped and shimmered violently, sending gusts of hot and cold wind blasting outward in conflicting directions.
Meanwhile, Daitentamono had finished gathering its own energy.
It had not launched its attack yet, but the sky and clouds directly above its enormous open mouth had already turned pitch black, with visible distortions rippling through space itself like glass cracking under immense pressure.
The giant ancient beast was clearly not playing around—its glowing yellow slit eyes burned with cold fury as it stared down at the two tiny mortals on the beach, its train-thick tentacles swirling faster in anticipation.
The child monster’s wails grew even more desperate, as if urging its parent to finish the intruders.
Benjamin’s massive crystallized arm had started pulsing wildly now, different elemental stones mixing chaotically inside the core of the Power Stones.
Flashes of fiery red, deep oceanic blue, swirling emerald wind, and brilliant golden light bled together in an unstable vortex of colors, creating a miniature storm of primal forces contained within the crystalline structure.
The ground beneath his feet began to crack and glow faintly as excess energy leaked outward, while Tensei could only watch in horrified awe, his golden eyes reflecting the chaotic light show unfolding before him.
