Free Web NovelChapter 383: The Big Bang Is Apparently Heavy
[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!!"] [Ben]
Daitentamono finally unleashed its pent-up fury. A colossal pillar of dark orange molten force screamed downward from its gaping maw, thick as a temple tower and roaring like the wrath of an enraged deity.
The air itself ignited in its wake, leaving a trail of superheated distortion that warped everything it passed.
Waves below boiled instantly into rising curtains of steam, and the sky above crackled with secondary lightning born from the sheer pressure of the descending judgment.
At the same moment, Benjamin’s grotesquely enlarged right arm answered with its own cataclysm.
A roaring, multicolored beam erupted outward — not a clean laser, but a chaotic torrent of clashing hues: violent crimson bleeding into electric sapphire, threaded with violent gold and toxic emerald.
The blast surged forward like a living comet that had learned how to scream, carving a blinding path through the air with enough force to rattle Benjamin’s own bones.
A translucent barrier snapped into existence around Tensei at the last possible second, shimmering faintly as the shockwave from both attacks slammed against it.
Without that protection, the Tengu would have been reduced to little more than scattered atoms on the wind.
Even inside the shield, he felt the heat press against his skin like an open furnace, forcing him to shield his face with one arm while his slippers slid backward through the sand.
The two impossible forces met head-on.
The collision was deafening.
A thunderclap that seemed to split the world in two rolled outward, shattering the invisible barrier Benjamin had erected earlier around the beach.
The protective dome that had kept the Amazons blind to the battle exploded into glittering fragments that dissolved harmlessly into the air.
Now nothing stood between the rest of Verdant Spire and the madness unfolding here.
For a breathless instant, the rainbow beam and the dark orange pillar fought for dominance, pushing and grinding against each other with enough violence to make the ocean retreat in a sudden, fearful tide.
Then Benjamin’s attack began winning.
The multicolored torrent chewed through the monster’s energy like a starving beast, ripping it apart layer by layer.
The beam kept climbing, unstoppable, blasting away the heavy storm clouds that had gathered above Daitentamono’s head until the sky itself seemed to tear open.
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In the middle of what should have been late afternoon, the heavens above the beach turned abruptly to deep night.
Pinpricks of distant light glittered coldly where the sun light had been only moments ago.
The orange twilight that had painted the sea earlier vanished as if it had never existed.
"Uhm... Sys..." Benjamin whispered, his voice suddenly small and uncertain as he stared upward at the unnatural darkness he was creating.
Sweat beaded on his forehead despite the cooling air. "Was this... exactly the plan?"
{Yes, Master. It is going all according to plan,} Sys replied with calm certainty, as though turning day into night was a minor footnote.
The reassurance seemed to steady Benjamin, and his shoulders relaxed a fraction.
With a slow, deliberate motion, he began lowering his massive crystallized arm further, dragging the devastating beam downward across the giant monster’s body like a celestial saw.
The attack carved deeper, slicing past the creature’s chest and continuing toward its waist with horrifying ease.
Chunks of ancient scale and flesh the size of houses vaporized instantly, raining down as glowing ash into the boiling sea.
"Ahaha, but this blast... sure is heavy..." Benjamin muttered through gritted teeth, his arm trembling violently from the strain.
Veins stood out on his neck as he fought to maintain control while the weapon tried to pull him forward. "Keeping it steady feels like trying to hold back a raging river with one hand."
{Ah, Master must not allow the beam to touch the earth, though,} Sys warned suddenly, her tone shifting closer to urgency.
[Hm? Why, though? It’s too heavy to keep up like this.] Benjamin’s mental reply carried clear strain as his boots sank deeper into the sand, which was already beginning to glow cherry-red beneath him.
{I do not mind the outcome, but Master seems to hold people in this world rather dear. Therefore I would strongly recommend against it... The world itself will react violently and may implode entirely if that chaos energy makes direct contact with the ground.}
[THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU SAY FIRST BEFORE WE TRY EXPERIMENTS LIKE THIS!! DUMB SYS!!] Benjamin roared internally, panic flashing across his face.
He had been moments away from simply letting the beam drop and finish the job by slamming it into the planet.
Now he reversed course desperately, muscles burning as he tried to wrench the colossal arm upward.
The beam fought him every inch, resisting like a living thing that wanted nothing more than to consume everything below it.
The ground around them had already turned into a hellscape — sand melted into churning lakes of liquid fire, the sea evaporating so rapidly that thick walls of white steam rose hundreds of feet into the air, and the beach itself looked like the surface of a dying star.
Waves that once lapped gently now hissed and vanished before they could reach the shore.
The entire area had transformed into something that belonged in nightmares rather than Whispering Wild’s peaceful coast.
But Benjamin seized on one final, desperate idea that would later be credited with saving the continent.
[Sys, cut off all the energy going to my right hand immediately!] he ordered, voice tight with effort.
{Understood.}
The multicolored beam died in less than a second, vanishing as though someone had flipped a switch.
Silence crashed over the beach—sudden, ringing, and unnatural after all the roaring violence.
What remained of Daitentamono was a ruined, half-melted husk.
Most of its upper body had been completely erased, leaving only a smoldering, cooked lower half that teetered unsteadily before toppling forward.
The colossal corpse slammed into the water with cataclysmic force, sending a towering wall of displaced sea surging outward in every direction.
The impact alone threatened to birth a tsunami that could swallow half the coastline.
The beach itself lay devastated: glassy craters glowed where molten sand had cooled into bizarre, twisted shapes.
Steam continued rising in thick columns, and the sky remained stubbornly dark, filled with stars that had no business appearing at that hour.
The Whispering Wilds behind them had been plunged into artificial night for miles around.
Tensei stood frozen some paces away, katana dangling loosely from his fingers as he stared at the destruction with an expression of utter speechlessness.
His mind struggled to process what he had just witnessed.
This was not the kind of event one casually reported to superiors.
How did one even begin explaining that the sky had been torn open and daytime replaced with stars because of a single man’s silly experiment?
"Yikes... I may have messed up..." Benjamin muttered quietly, lowering his now-normal-sized right arm.
The crystallization receded completely, leaving his limb looking deceptively ordinary again.
He rubbed the back of his neck, surveying the cooked landscape and the premature night that had swallowed most of the Whispering Wilds. "I better tell the Amazons and the others not to get too worked up. I hope this won’t cause me too much of a headache."
(Note: it caused him a lot of headaches in the future.)
