Chapter 241: Shooting Stars
Chapter 241: Shooting Stars
Elena looked up with the sacred vision to look far beyond the planet's atmosphere to find a suitable meteoroid rock. Nothing was blocking her line of sight. Her eyes sparkled as she spotted a suitable meteoroid from the swarm of space rocks.
Then, she raised her hand high. Her simple movement was witnessed by many curious, fascinated, and amazed parties. It was a rare occurrence where they could see the figure of a Goddess who had descended into the mortal world.
However, the noise, rumors, and murmurs from many people were neither Elena nor Elysia's business. Elena prepared strong gravity magic to pull the meteoroid down onto the planet. She would only use magic briefly for fear of summoning more space rock than necessary.
Elena swung her hand down with ease. That was followed by a strong gravitational force which immediately pulled the meteoroid down onto the planet from several hundred thousand kilometers away.
It sped up fast and immediately slowed down as Elena's magic was revoked. It was accelerated at average speed as it entered the atmosphere, around 54,000 kilometers per hour. However, the meteoroid split open and became four meteors that would hit the planet.
[| -420,000 EP |]
A status notification appeared in the corner of Elysia's eyes right after Elena had used that instant gravity magic.
'Hmm, looks like this is indeed the EP cost of using magic.' Elysia looked back at Elena, then glanced up.
The golden cloud suddenly perforated, as if to make way for the blue meteors that were about to fall. Elysia's eyes widened when she saw not one, but four meteors!
'Sister Elena, you summoned four meteors instead!' Elysia informed Elena who accidentally summoned more than one space rock.
'Eh? Four, not one?' Elena was also surprised that she made sure to only summon one meteoroid with her magic. Still, it had the other three as a bonus.
Even so, she immediately put up a barrier sphere to protect herself and moved away from there.
'One meteor will fall, and the other three will follow. Prepare for a heavy blow!' Elena cheered in her mind. She said that for the slime liquid that would be eliminated.
"Something is coming from up there! The Goddess of Light has summoned several blue stars to eliminate all evil in that cursed land!" One of the knights shouted while pointing upwards.
Arthur, Alexander, and the others looked back. Sure enough, four blue objects were shooting down onto their planet. Was that what the Goddess meant by purifying the accursed land? Just as everyone was stunned by the four blue meteors, the eroded and burning meteor fell to the cursed ground.
*Kaboom!* x4
The blast waves from the four meteors took turns to destroy the purplish-black ground. Too much kaboom and it could be called ka-doom, the Saint Ruvoid in the form of liquid slime was perished along with its hiding place.
The small percentage of the people who were accidentally hit by the blast wave could only be blown away. While the others used the magic barrier to protect themselves.
As for the group with Alexander and Arthur, all the knights and mages put up barriers to protect each other just in case. They slowly landed in fear of being hit by the enormous waves of subsequent divine punishment on the stained ground.
"Divine punishment, it's divine punishment to the evil! The Goddess has already sentenced all evil monsters to destruction!"
"Oh the almighty Goddess, have mercy and save mankind."
"All evil has been eliminated. We won without the need for war in the capital city. Praise the Goddess!"
"Praise the Goddess!"
"Praise the Goddess!"
The cheering crowd from the city walls shouted out with awe and reverence. Their Goddess descended and solved problems in the Holy Central Region, the land forbidden to evil beings.
They praised and worshiped the divine who intervened in worldly affairs with happiness. Whether the majority or the minority, those who were religious or not, realized the Goddess was protecting them.
All they knew, there was something in the forest that triggered the city's level 5 alert. So, with the presence of the Goddess and that great attack from four blue stars, they were all safe from danger.
"What, what the hell? Is that the strength of someone at the God level? She just waved her hand lightly, and this destructive force is just insane!" Serena screamed and trembled. Her face was a little pale with fear even though she was protected by mages and knights within the energy barrier.
She had watched the Goddess before the meteors fell, out of concern for her own safety. Literally, she did no virtue to the Goddess's disciple. Because of that, she was afraid of being punished by the divine, that was divine punishment! It was only a platinum card, she didn't want to be subjected to divine punishment.
"Shut up! You disrespect the Goddess with that remark." Rosie slapped the screaming girl on the back.
"Oww, ouch... It hurts!" Serena delivered her protest with tears in her eyes.
"Hmph!" Rosie just snorted and looked at the Goddess from a distance.
The four small meteors' destructive force destroyed about 15 kilometers of the area and the formerly tarnished ground at its center. A large crater was created there to prove the power of the Goddess's light swing.
'Sister Elena, how about it? Is that Saint Ruvoid still around?' Elysia ignored the murmurs of those around her. She was worried about the troublesome monster.
'Mission complete, the slime liquid is obliterated. I better leave this crater just like this, there's an altar down there. Let the authorities do the research. Uhh, I'm feeling a little tired... It's time for me to come back~' Elena hummed and returned to her spirit form. She purified the land just in case, then flew closer to Elysia and entered the Soul Realm.
After the Goddess disappeared from the sky, the golden aura faded away, and it returned like an ordinary cloudy sky. As everyone knows, the Goddess returned to the Heavenly Realm after the mortal problem was over.
Something that threatened mankind had just happened and prompted the presence of the divine to descend into the mortal world. Fortunately, it was all over. The citizens, knights, mages, and all the people in the city could cheer with relief.
While others felt joy and happiness, a certain girl could only bite her finger in annoyance.
"Goddammit! Eh, that is goddessdammit! Even the divine intervened in my grand scheme. At this rate, it will be a little difficult. Whatever, I have a backup plan. Goddess of Blessings, huh... Tsk." The girl looked at the city once, then turned into mist and disappeared from the treetop where she had witnessed the incident.
Alexander's eyes lit up as he flew back to the sky and saw the four blue stars' devastating impact.
"Is that the power of the divine? One gentle swing and dozens of kilometers of land instantly became a crater. That damned land with negative energy has perished." Alexander murmured and returned to the ground. He wanted to ask Elysia a few questions.
"The operation to rescue and exterminate monsters is complete. What is the report of the current state and the casualties?" Arthur announced, then asked his subordinates.
"13 students could not be found and were reported dead. 47 knights and 35 mages are injured due to the explosion of the dome barrier." One of the knights reported after requesting data from the other troops.
"Arthur brat, do you want me to help you with those injured ones?" Alexander offered assistance in generosity.
"Haha, that's not necessary. But, thank you for offering to help, old man. The healer team and priests of the Holy Cathedral are enough to take care of them. Pope doesn't need to step in to heal minor wounds." Arthur calmly refused as if he was talking to an old teacher, not Pope.
"Nee, Ely, is your master the Goddess of Light? You never told me your background and origin because of that?" Evelyn looked at the sky for a moment and turned to her best friend. She didn't know what she was feeling right now.
"What if I told you but you didn't believe me, Eve? What do you see in me? Is it me or who is behind me?" Elysia smiled faintly to answer the confused girl.
"Who is behind you? Is that me, Ely?" Ella rested her chin on Elysia's shoulder. She was in charge of guarding Elysia in the back seat, and Evelyn in front.
"A-uh, that's not what I meant, Ella..." Elysia got a little awkward at the situation. The one behind her literally was Ella, and the metaphor got a little ridiculous.
"Uhm, I understand. At least I got to know a little more about you, Ely. But! After this, I want to ask, and you have to answer honestly, okay?" Evelyn nodded but didn't let things go. She wanted to make her best friend compensate for her tears and sadness a moment ago.
"I want to take part in the talk session too!" Ella raised her hand. She wanted to participate.
"Uhm, that's fine. In exchange for your questions, I can also ask, and you have to answer honestly. Do you agree?" Elysia offered that rather helplessly. As Elena said, it's about time she opened up about herself a little.
"I want to come too! Count me in." Rosie ran closer to the white tiger, but she immediately stopped and looked back. "Serena Scott, don't you dare to run. I want you to explain a few things to us before the principal will act decisively."
Serena, who was about to run away, stopped in her tracks. She turned her head only to see the attention directed to her, including the Emperor and Pope. Whatever happened, she was afraid because Elysia was the Goddess's disciple. Plus these two superpowers... Today was a bad day for her.