Chapter 90: The Disaster Struck
In just a short span of a month, the first interstellar travel vessel had been fully constructed and thus began the construction of the Dyson Sphere on the sun.
Technological advancements of aerospace also spill over to other fields and indirectly improve the life quality of the world's population and bring forth the start of a golden age.
However, even with all this good news. Ray couldn't help but feel restless as if something bad was coming. The fact that the Imaginary Tree itself is sending him this feeling made him feel on edge constantly.
"With the help of Welt Yang and my lord, the construction of the Dyson Sphere is expected to be completed in two weeks." Kyuusyou read the report before she stopped when sensed my thoughts were distracted.
"Hmn? What's wrong?" She asked with a tilted head.
"Nothing." I said to not make her worry as she had been working quite hard to achieve her goal and hardly had rest lately. Rather not trouble her with another problem knowing she will immediately throw herself on it instantly.
"I feel a little tired right now. You can leave the report and I will read it later." I dismissed her. "Also, thanks for your hard work."
"No worries! It's my fate as the Savior to be burdened by this ordeal and it's honestly more easier than fighting Honkai forces." She nods and passes over the report before leaving the throne where I sat.
Shrugging the feeling away and picking up the report, I consume the document which instantly archived into my mind where I meditate while going through it.
"Hmn? Anti-Entropy is migrating its heavy industries to Mars?" I noticed the part since it has an Anti-Entropy name there.
They migrate most of their heavy production plants to Mars due to the abundance of raw materials and nearby asteroid belt for outer space mining operations to sustain the shipyard and Dyson Sphere components production.
As I am engrossed in reading the report, a sudden ominous sensation pulsed over the world and sent me into a panic as I instantly left Ars Paulina and went to the location where the pulse originated.
Sky darkened with thunderstorms raging as turbulent waves appeared surrounding a rip in space, a spatial rift appeared on Rhodes island that was previously swept by a tsunami.
"What is happening!" I growled in anger and panic as Kyuusyou, who previously went to rest, arrived with a portal and looked confused, which means this never appeared in her vision.
Suddenly, my Precognition triggered as I saw a vision of a devastated galaxy, wrecked by four primordial entities which all turned their eyes to me before the vision abruptly ended with me puking out blood from overtaxing my Precognition.
I recognise them. It's impossible not to consider how much I read and enjoyed it in my previous life.
"The Chaos Gods!" I said while Kyuusyou panicked and tried to help me.
"Quick and gather everyone. This is the highest state of emergency." I growl and cursed mentally for this to be my opponent. This universe might as well be fucked if the Chaos Gods manage to enter the Imaginary Tree.
"Yes!" Kyuusyou obeyed and brought me over to the Einzbern family HQ and gathered the rest of the key personnel.
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In the conference room underground, the leaders of each organization and their entourage arrived and sat along with me and my group as a holographic screen showed the space rift appearing in Greece.
"What are we looking at here?" Welt Yang asked after everyone sat down and look at the screen displaying live data from numerous surveillance systems in place.
"To be honest?" I said and sighed. "The most troublesome kind of enemies that I myself am not confident to defeat if what I assumed is true." My face turns grim as I explain.
"The easiest way is to show you all directly." I use illusion to show everyone the information I have on the Chaos Gods and their hordes.
Each person has varied reactions but one consistent emotion is terror. The sheer destruction these Chaos Gods can do made the Honkai forces look like child's play. Not even a fair comparison.
"Is there nothing we can do about it?" Otto asks for solutions instead of concerning himself with the Chaos Gods inevitable arrival.
"I obscured and redirected the spatial rift which hopefully was able to delay them but I cannot shut it down." I answered regretfully that even Kaleidoscope cannot shut the rift that has already formed which further makes me depressed as this means my power is weaker than the Chaos Gods that open this rift.
"I am trying to displace the rift as far from Earth as possible." I added a second later. "Even then, sending it out of Earth is already stretching my limit." I sighed exasperatedly at my power.
"How about this news? Should we release it to the public?" The bigger question emerged. "The people are just beginning to enter a golden age. A war will no doubt affect the world as a whole. Even crippling us if what we just saw was correct. As we are no way ready for such a threat." Otto added, proactively engage with the conversation.
After thinking how strong the army of the chaos were and especially the Chaos Space Marine, no way the flesh and blood army of the current Earth can compete and our home world is only one. Once it falls, we have none to replace which means the war itself is extremely risky. The population cannot be risked as it will affect the world as whole.
"We cannot send people to fight our enemies. We must rely on machines." I said and looked at both Otto and Welt Yang who nodded and easily agreed to contribute their mechs for the war effort. Thankfully I have a cheat that allows me to duplicate them endlessly as much as I want with Tracing and without Gaia's influence, the mechs that I Trace is permanent as far as I could tell.
The meeting lasted for another half an hour to discuss the smaller details before I quickly left to prepare for the inevitable arrival of our enemies as my power was struggling to hold them back any longer.
I teleport myself to the moon and notice ruins over there which I heard of before from Kyuusyou. I look at the spatial rift at the sky of the moon and ready my Ars Almadel Salomonis. I'm gonna blast these fuckers before they get a chance to reach Earth and hopefully deflect the first wave of enemies while buying time for the others to prepare their forces and myself to try and dismantle the spatial rift.
'You are not going to fight alone again, right?'
"..."
'Sigh, now I understand your lovers said you are too insufferable sometimes.'
"I mean… this is my job as the man. To keep them safe…?" I replied without a hit of confidence as if I made up at the go.
'You know I can read your mind and know that it's just another half truth excuse right? You just worry too much, idiot. But, not that I dislike it.' Venti's giggle echoes in my mind as I continue to stare at the spatial rift and ready to attack at any moment.
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The world is once again shocked after the recent reveal about Honkai, God and magic. Contrary to Ray's expectations, the people of the world don't panic much as they do firmly believe that Ray can take care of the enemies as they watch the live broadcast of him on the moon waiting near the spatial rift.
The broadcasts were made to strengthen their faith and trust in Ray.
The people around the world watch and wait as the rift becomes more erratic, shooting out lightning bolts around it and glows increasingly more purplish red from just plain black and gray.
"That big idiot. He is at it again." Tanya said angrily while anxiously looking at the screen. She is with Ray long enough to read his body language.
Usually when he is doing anything, his movement and words are with confidence that he can achieve it due to the prediction by Future Calculation. But just now, he is showing doubt. Does that mean his chance of success is low?
'No, Tanya. You cannot think like that.' Tanya shook her head and looked at Charlotte and Artoria who also noticed the same thing as she did.
Suddenly, the rift stabilized and enlarged before what seemed to be an armada of war fleet exited the rift and minutes of pin drop silence later, another fleet exited the rift. The difference being the second one looks more demonic than the former. With large red slitted eye icons on their warship.
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"Navigator! Where had we landed? Quickly identify our location." The Admiral ordered with stern voice. "We suffered too much losses for jumping randomly into warp space."
"This is Admiral Natalia to battlegroup Sentinel Eagle. Report your status immediately." The admiral ordered through the vox channel and honestly, the report was anything but great.
Heavy losses prior to the warp space jump fighting the traitor fleet and retreating only due to the High Lord's order to perform a strategy retreat than wasting more able men of the Imperium on a hopeless battle.
"Admiral, there is an urgent matter we need to address. The Navigators… they said the astronomicon cannot be seen. But, according to the map… we…"
"Out with it, captain!" The admiral ordered harshly after seeing his hesitation to report.
"We are currently at the heart of Segmentum Solar, the Sol system and currently on the orbit of Holy Terra's moon." The entire bridge turn silent as they couldn't believe it. What they see through their screen isn't how Holy Terra should look like. It look like a new virgin world mostly untouched by the millennium of conflicts.
However, before the Admiral could voice her disbelief. Another announcement made her become restless.
"Admiral! The traitor fleet from the prior battle had followed us and are entering real space in 30 seconds!"
"What! How could they followed us? Tch, nevermind." She immediately open the vox channel again. "This is Admiral Natalia to batt-" She suddenly stopped as she witnessed something unimaginable on the screen.
"Is t-that Eye of Terror!?" Everyone exclaimed as purple clouds of dense energy appeared on the moon as crimson black thunder streaking wildly while particles of energy falling like snowflakes from the clouds condensed and turn into beam of light that gather into a sphere of purplish black and red chaotic energy that had been a trademark characteristics of Chaos' powers.
72 Demonic pillars rose from the surface of the moon, surrounding a man in a circular shape, that are lifting both hand as if bearing the sphere of energy the size of a giant boulder. Then the last thing they saw is a giant circle filled with glyphs appeared above the orbit of the moon along with a white construct resembles a throne.
Second later, everything engulfed by a pillar of purplish beam, shooting from the giant circle with glyph and wiped out the entire traitor fleet, hit the rift and pierce through it. The beam travel for quite a while and several light years away before it explodes with energy so massive that everyone's vision become black and white along with sound disappearing as the sound of the explosion overwhelmed everything.
The great explosion is as strong as a supernova from a giant star if not more, according to a hasty analysis of an onboard Archmagos.
While the people from another reality is speechless and at the same time extremely wary of the suspected superweapon. The people on Earth was cheering wildly and chanting his name as they parade on the street. Their Emperor, the Emperor of Earth had crushed yet another looming threat to humanity.
Although, Ray himself still staring at the spot where the rift was previously at. His brow creased as he can feel it with his supernatural senses, a crack in reality was formed which mean the bubble around Honkaiverse was breached and compromised that normally stave off any Outerworldly beings from entering.
His legs become weak and he fell on his butt, to the marble throne that he summoned when using Ars Almadel Salomonis. His body was tired from this sterneuos exertion. Ray decide to retreat for now into his realm and rest for a bit.
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(Don't go too excited on this sudden 40K crossover. Not yet planned long term cross but I think you can already guess who Ray is referencing in the last few chapters and I should say, misunderstanding will ensue.)