Reincarnated Hero System - Chapter 1125 - 1125: Descent into Molten Chaos
The group of seven reappeared thousands of meters in the sky, plummeting at breakneck speed.
Jamie immediately formed a spatial bubble around them, easing the air pressure and briefly concealing them from Bewússtsein’s gaze.
While the planet’s consciousness swept across more than eight billion square kilometres searching for them, they fell toward the massive caldera Jamie had carved earlier with his destructive punch.
“Ooh, the ground’s literally lava. Good thing I dropped us up here,” Arthur remarked with a chuckle, but Evan wasn’t having it.
“You crazy skydiver! You pulled this same stunt in that Olrerth world!” Evan shouted, recalling the last time Arthur had dropped him through a spatial gate from thousands of kilometres up.
As they neared the ground, the group’s winged members spread their wings to slow their descent and hover in place, while the others relied on spatial manipulation or wind magic to stay aloft.
It was then that Arthur suddenly spoke up.
“So, uh… there’s something I need to tell you guys about my plan…”
All eyes turned toward him as he rubbed the back of his head.
“Well, there’s a limit to how many people my plan can affect. And, uh, the more people it includes, the less effective it is for each person.”
“You didn’t think to share this crucial information earlier?”
Alvey questioned with an exasperated voice, and Arthur responded with an unapologetic laugh, as if their lives weren’t on the line.
McEnda spoke up next, voicing the question on everyone’s mind.
“Exactly what is your plan?”
Arthur’s answer was frustratingly vague.
“Well, it involves this handy little trinket I picked up a few months back.
The thing is, its effects are… limited. The more people included, the less effective it is for each person, and the shorter its uptime.”
“And how many people are we talking about here?”
Jamie asked the crucial question, and Arthur pointed to himself as he replied, “Myself included? Five.”
There were seven of them.
That meant two would have to be excluded from Arthur’s plan.
There was a brief silence before Arthur continued, his tone growing more serious.
“Not gonna lie, the optimal use is for three people, including myself. Jamie has to come—he’s our way in. So that leaves room for one more.”
His words raised the stakes even higher, cutting four people out of the plan instead of two. Jamie opened his mouth to speak, but Arthur continued.
“And whoever those four are, they will be at serious risk until we reach the Core Dimension.
But once we’re in and my plan succeeds, there’s a very high chance Bewússtsein won’t have the energy—or peace of mind—to keep controlling these corpses chasing us.
The danger to you will drop significantly.”
Another heavy silence fell over the group before Jamie broke it with the question he’d been about to ask earlier.
“You said three people for optimal execution, huh? Got anyone in mind?”
Without a word, Arthur reached out and grabbed Evan, who was in the middle of swapping out the magic stones in the Energem Reclaimer so he could use Limit Break without repercussions, interrupting him mid-task.
“Huh? Me?”
Evan blinked in confusion, while Artemisia frowned at Arthur’s choice.
“Why not Alvey or McEnda?”
It was a fair question. The two demons were far stronger than Evan, and with the fight coming up, they seemed like the obvious picks.
Hearing Artemisia’s logical reasoning, Arthur turned to her with a grin.
“The fun reason? Because we’re all main characters. The logical reason? The more Singularities we bring, the better our chances of messing with certain restrictive laws.”
Before anyone could interject, Arthur turned and pointed at Jamie.
“You know what else the three of us have in common? Ultimate Seeds. Jamie’s got a fully developed Ultimate Skill, but same difference.”
At that, Evan raised his hand as though he were a student asking a question in class.
“I’m pretty sure the term ‘same difference’ doesn’t really apply here…”
“Don’t sweat the small stuff,” Arthur said, waving him off.
Then, without warning, he folded his wings and let gravity pull him down, his body plummeting toward the massive caldera below.
Evan’s eyes widened at the sight as he yelled out,
“You skydiving lunatic!”
He clicked his tongue and beat his wings, diving after Arthur, while staying behind just long enough to give Alvey and McEnda quick instructions, before shooting off after the two.
The three of them fell through the air like falling stars, leaving a string of sonic booms trailing behind them. With Arthur’s time acceleration pushing their speed higher, their velocity climbed fast.
What began as a fall at over 1,000 m/s quickly doubled, then tripled, until they were nearing 5,000 m/s, the ground racing toward them, and the temperature rising high enough to instantly vaporise even magically conjured water.
Mid-dive, Arthur activated his Cosmic Teleporter, creating a spatial gate that cut their descent a thousand kilometres short. They all dove through it, remerging right above the caldera Jamie had made earlier.
“That’s hot!”
Evan, undisputedly the one with the highest heat resistance among the trio, shouted as he quickly wrapped himself in a thin layer of magic power to block the scorching air.
As they plunged into the vast caldera, Jamie used his spatial power to propel himself ahead of the two boys.
He had shattered the space and erased all the planet’s mass in this area, which was why even with such a massive hole in the ground, magma hadn’t poured in. The space was so broken that nothing could occupy it without being torn apart.
But what he had broken, he could restore. Drawing on the cosmic energy leaking from his deteriorating vessel, he activated a Unique Skill.
[The Child of Space commands you: Be Stabilised.]
With his decree, the fractured space around them, splintered like shards of broken glass, began to realign.
The pieces locked back into place, stabilising the damaged area and removing the hazards that would’ve made their descent dangerous, letting them keep accelerating.
But Jamie’s actions didn’t go unnoticed by Bewússtsein.
He’d been searching the planet for them since they vanished through Arthur’s Cosmic Gate, only managing to find Alvey, Artemisia, Beatrix, and McEnda once Jamie’s recognition inhibition faded after he’d joined up with Arthur and Evan.
However, when Jamie began mending the shattered space, the Planet’s Consciousness immediately sensed it and locked onto their location.
Though he didn’t know their goal in going down that hole was, he wasn’t going to let them succeed.
Chunks of the planet’s mantle began to tear free, merging into colossal magma dragons that dove at the trio with molten jaws.
Arthur, spotting them first, immediately shot Jamie a look.
“Uh, Jamie? Maybe speed up that whole space-repairing thing?”
Jamie’s brow twitched as he snapped his gaze towards Arthur, one hand still working to stabilise the space as he spoke.
“Dude, do you have any idea how hard it is to fix space in my current state? Why don’t you give it a shot?”
“Yeah, no thanks,” Arthur responded, immediately dismissing the idea.
He had no intention of risking an overload of his Spatial Pseudo-Origin core by attempting to repair space damaged by a Deity.
The only reason Jamie could even manage it in his weakened state was that he was the one who had broken it in the first place.
Meanwhile, the magma dragons closed in, spewing streams of lava that ripped through the air at supersonic speed.
Arthur’s left eye glowed as he slowed time around them, then he thrust his right hand forward and activated the Cosmic Teleporter, forming a swirling Cosmic Gate ahead.
“Let’s go, boys!”
Arthur shouted, diving into the portal without hesitation. Jamie and Evan followed right after, their figures vanishing just as the torrent of magma breath tore through the space they’d just occupied.
Since they were falling in a straight line, Arthur didn’t bother with exact coordinates, simply setting the Cosmic Teleporter to open an exit a thousand kilometres below, and it did.
They burst out the other side into a wave of scorching heat so intense that Arthur’s skin began to burn, forcing all three to pour energy into shielding themselves from the blistering heat, dense cosmic energy, and crushing gravity.
Jamie clenched his fist, dominating and consuming the dense cosmic energy around them to activate a ‘Skill’.
[Imperial Privileges: Second Privilege: Space.]
The cosmic energy around them thinned as it was pulled into stabilising the fractured space across thousands of kilometres, the broken fabric groaning before calming under Jamie’s silent command.
They plummeted for a few hundred kilometres more before another swarm of magma beasts erupted from the mantle, roaring as they lunged.
Arthur summoned Celestia, launching crescent destruction slashes that ripped them apart, while Jamie waved his palm, carving through space itself to erase the beasts completely.
Evan, on the other hand, drew his sword and an ability of the ‘Vale Blade’.
“Activate Slot 2: Frostshade.”
A frigid aura burst from the blade, and with a single swing, he unleashed a colossal wave of ice that froze the magma beasts solid before they shattered and evaporated into steam.
As the last fragments vanished, Arthur opened another Cosmic Gate, and the trio dove through, dropping another thousand kilometres deeper.
They repeated the pattern twice more. Each cycle involved about fifty seconds of free-fall covering five hundred kilometres, followed by a teleport that dropped them another thousand.
In just over three and a half minutes, they had descended far enough to see the planet’s outer core, or rather, the mantle and magma that had flooded over it.
Now, it was Evan’s moment to shine.
He raised his hand, activating two skills at once.
“Vortex + Elemental Gale.”
The elemental laws of fire and earth bent to his command, the sea of magma above the outer core swirling up into a colossal vortex. This action rapidly drained his magic power, but Jamie grabbed his shoulder and fed him more magic, preventing him from falling into an energy-deficient state.
With that extra magic, Evan widened the eye of the molten storm, carving a clear path through the swirling fire that the three of them dove into. Their descent stayed uninterrupted until the actual surface of the damaged outer core came into sight.
Though still a considerable distance off, they were now close enough for Jamie to act.
Taking a deep breath, Jamie pushed his hand into a small circular dark portal that formed before him, and in an instant, darkness swallowed the world, blocking even Bewússtsein’s perception.
From within the darkness, Jamie’s voice echoed.
[Dimensional Slash.]
Light returned in a blinding flash, a massive burst of cosmic energy slamming into them and almost pushing them back up.
When Arthur and Evan’s sight adjusted, they found themselves staring at a long rift stretching ahead, space itself torn apart as the magma and even parts of the outer core’s space had been sliced away, leaving a void that seemed to drop endlessly.
Gravity took hold, and the three plunged through the rift, falling deeper into the planet.
Moving through it was like forcing their way through a sea of leaves with the density of water, each one brushing against their skin. The fractured dimensional walls pushed back, as though trying to repel intruders, filling them with an uncomfortable sensation beyond what sight or sound could convey.
Suddenly, the sensation vanished, and they burst through into the cavern Artemisia had described.
The space was vast and uneven, its jagged walls fading into shadow as veins of molten rock glowed across the stone, casting flickering light over pools of lava. The cavern pulsed faintly, its walls seeming disturbingly alive.
At its centre hung the planet’s inner core, a blazing sphere of plasma encased within a barrier that dimmed its radiance, though its energy still pressed outward with immense force, even with the barrier cutting its output by half.
Below the core, their eyes locked on the enemy—Bewússtsein.
The ‘Perfect Vessel’ he was constructing lay before them, almost complete from the waist up, its lower half still forming as flesh and blood vessels grew around its skeletal frame.
As for its power, there was no doubt about it.
It was a vessel built to hold Deity-level power, with the necessary energy output, vitality, and durability.
Its chest held a wide circular void where something was clearly meant to be placed.
The body’s appearance resembled the other vessels he had made, with long black hair and an ordinary face that was neither handsome nor unattractive, with a faint trace of stubble along his chin.
But his eyes were different. His pupils were unnaturally large, glowing with an iridescent light.
As they descended into the Core Dimension, Bewússtsein’s gaze lifted to meet them, his expression contorting in pure disgust before he screamed out in rage.
[IHR VERDAMMTEN BASTARDE!!!]
They didn’t need the Law of Languages to understand him. It was obvious he had just called them ‘Fucking Bastards’.
[Abgründige Todeswelle!]
With a roar of fury, Bewússtsein thrust out his hand, his half-formed muscles straining as the ground split apart and a dark crimson wave of Death and Destruction erupted upward.
[Ausrottung des Donnerschlags!]
Above, golden light tore through the air as massive bolts of cosmic lightning crashed down toward them.
He clasped his hands, forming a sphere where fire, water, earth, air, lightning, and ice clashed and merged chaotically, then laced it with Death and Destruction before hurling it at them with a malevolent smirk.
[ELEMENTARE KATASTROPHE!!!]
Faced with the simultaneous onslaughts, Evan immediately summoned the Akashic Page and cast Absolute Defence, and as shimmering barriers formed around them, he shouted over his shoulder.
“Hey, Arthur! Ain’t it about time you start that plan of yours?!”
“Not yet!”
Arthur called back as he unfurled his wings, channelling magic through them. He beat them once, unleashing waves of destructive energy that tore upward and obliterated the descending lightning before it could strike.
Meanwhile, Jamie raised a barrier atop Evan’s, embedding it with wormholes that drew in the rushing tide of destructive death energy and funnelled it into nothingness.
“Arthur, seriously! Whatever you’re planning, now’s the time!”
Jamie yelled as he and Evan held back the Elemental Cataclysm, but Arthur’s response didn’t change.
“Not yet!”
Magic power poured into Arthur’s semi-transparent sword as he unleashed a downward slash of extinction law energy, cleaving through Bewússtsein’s Elemental Cataclysm in a burst of light that lit the cavern like a newborn star.
Bewússtsein, enraged by the constant disruption of his attacks, screamed expletives in countless tongues and thrust out his hand.
[Brennende Apokalypse!]
The magma around them convulsed, rising as a massive torrent that he ignited into a blazing wave of molten destruction that hurtled toward them.
Evan and Jamie reinforced their barriers to withstand the oncoming inferno, while Arthur ignored it completely, his eyes locked on the planet’s inner core.
Finally, they dropped below its level, and Arthur’s lips immediately curved into a grin.
“I’ve never been one to gamble, but I gotta say, it does feel pretty damn good to win.”
With those words, he reached into his subspace and retrieved an object—a Pair of Golden Scales.
The sight of them made Bewússtsein’s face contort in shock and fury, while Jamie’s eyes widened in recognition.
Evan, on the other hand, glanced between them, clearly confused, his expression silently asking: What the hell are those?
Arthur raised the scales high, their golden surface glinting as he channelled ambient cosmic energy into them.
Then he screamed the activation command in his Faux True Voice.
|¬Scales of Balance! Weigh our Existences! ¬|
The moment the words left his lips, the scales erupted with a wave of cosmic energy, its iridescent glow blanketing the area.
Everything and Everyone froze.
Then, before their eyes, a single line of text appeared in the air.
|The ‘Weighing of Existences Ceremony’ has Begun.|
