Chapter 2112: Crippling a Planet
Chapter 2112: Crippling a Planet
She glared right back at him, only rage boiling in her eyes. She knew no fear, no hesitation, and no rational understanding of the current situation. Arad had just neutralized their missiles and anti-aircraft weapons with ease, uprooted an entire hospital, and even healed everyone there. He wasn’t just stronger than them but far more flexible with what he could do.
But what mattered more was that, unlike them, Arad wasn’t bound by their dying world. He wasn’t starved, he wasn’t desperate, he wasn’t chained. This world of theirs, the already dead land that they had been chained to for eons, was already crying.
The air was stale, filled with radioactive ash. The ground was dry, filled only with stone and dust, not a single speck of organic matter to support the very base of life. The orcs didn’t just use all of their world’s resources; they drew even more than they should’ve and killed their own world.
Ever since Arad landed here, he could faintly hear it. The distant cries of the long-dead spirit queens of this world. They have been reduced to nothing but an ancient spark, devoid of all life and will.
This orc, this woman standing against him, represented everything wrong about the orcs. The fact is that even if they understand the situation they are in, they’ll still push forward against all odds and laws of nature.
"Woman." Arad glared at her with a twisted face, looking more like a disappointed father than an angry man. "It’s over: your civilization, laws, beliefs, and order. It was all wrong, and you’ve been proved wrong by your own hands."
"Shut up! Alien Outsider." She growled but still couldn’t take a single step toward Arad. He was there, standing tall and glaring at her menacingly.
"If you think hiding beneath a hospital is fine, then it just shows how rotten your kingdom has gotten. You’ve ignored your basic morals and the laws of nature and exchanged them for cold steel." He took a step forward, and she backed away.
Then in the blink of an eye, she found herself already on his lap with her bare ass out. She didn’t even notice when he grabbed her. She wanted to resist, but all of those thoughts washed away when his fist slap ripped the skin off her butt, and by the second slap, she was reduced to nothing but a wailing body.
The other orcs inside the base all pointed their weapons at him, but none of them dared to fire. Something about him felt off on a whole other scale than just danger.
"It’s fine; you can rest." Arad spoke, and the ground started shaking violently beneath them.
"An earthquake?" One of the orcs cried. There hasn’t been one for the past ten thousand years, and the only way they still know about them is because of their records.
The air started moving, and in the distance, far beyond the horizon, they could see a massive cloud of black dust and ash reaching the sky as the planet started to bleed again, spewing magma onto the surface.
The wind grew even more violent, and when they brought the volcanic ash with them, they also brought rain, black, acidic, and radioactive, yet still rain.
"I see..." Arad smiled as he held his hand, letting the black rainwater accumulate in it. "Even while dead, you still want to fight."
He then took a deep breath, and then shouted. "Destroy them all!"
Far back at the private quarters, Isdis had just left Lucy with Amaterasu, who put her to sleep so she could endure this period. All they had to do now was wait for Arad and Gojo to sort things out with the orcs. She walked out of the room and saw Merlin waiting for her. Hundreds of thousands of angels and archons gathered inside Arad’s stomach just minutes ago. They are the forces of peace, which now belong to her as the new divine.
"Mathilde is with them; we should go." Merlin started walking, and Isdis followed her. "Are you sure? They are safe?"
"You’re the new goddess of control and peace; they are your servants now. I doubt they’ll have a problem with that." Merlin smiled as she flicked her finger and teleported them to the empty room.
The moment Isdis emerged, she saw all of those angels, all kneeling down, waiting for her to arrive. She had never expected that such a day would come, but here she was, a goddess with her own army of angels.
"This is... a bit much." She looked worried and threw a glance toward Mathilde.
"You’ll get used to it, every new..." She then froze, hearing a loud horn booming inside her head. Her face paled, her eyes opened wide, and blood rushed toward her head. She could hear the roar clearly inside her mind, and so could every angel in the room.
Isdis would’ve gotten even more worried if she hadn’t heard that horn as well. She knew what was going on, and without wasting a second, everyone disappeared, leaving the confused Merlin there alone.
Eris and her angels disappeared as well, and while Mira and Cerilla were left behind, their angels moved just as fast.
Back at the orcs’ world, the higher-ups had already learned of Arad’s appearance seconds after he uprooted the hospital, and they had already made the decision that, to deal with something as powerful as him, they had no other option but to nuke the entire city he was in. They would sacrifice hundreds of millions of orcs, but that would only make their food situation better.
It wasn’t just the regional higher-ups but the entire world. All of the orcs’ cities have started to move like one massive wasp nest, and their entire arsenal was now pointed toward the invading alien. They were only seconds away from starting an all-out war with Arad, and that’s why Arad couldn’t just wait and talk.
An orc stared at the screen with a sweaty face, used his key to unlock the giant green bottom, and gulped. One click, and he’ll doom millions; he always wanted to push this button, but who would’ve thought he’d hesitate when the time came. All of those lives would be lost. No, if he doesn’t act, the alien will kill even more.
He lifted his fist up and swung it down at the button, but he didn’t hit anything. Looking at his own arm, he found out that his entire wrist was missing, and behind, a tall, muscular blond man with glowing blue eyes and massive white wings stood, glaring at them with an emotionless face.
In another location, they had already fired the warheads. But seconds after the missiles took flight, something blindingly fast tore them apart in the blink of an eye, a beautiful woman with pale wings. She tore the regular missiles on the spot and took the nuclear warheads up to space.
This didn’t happen in just one place but all over the world. Those angels all showed up at once, ripping and tearing all of the orcs’ weaponry that they shot toward Arad, or were about to shoot, making sure to neutralize everything.
But it wasn’t angels alone but far more. One base shot ten ultrasonic missiles toward Arad that flew at low altitude but were extremely fast. This base aimed for a quick strike more than sheer destruction, but they were surprised when something massive and winged flew in and ripped their missile apart in the blink of an eye.
"What is that!?" The orcs cried as they stared at a Steel Drakaina flying away from their base as she ripped their weapons apart, and seconds later, they got a report that a massive creature had destroyed the nearby iron mine and that another had just turned their gunpowder factory into rubble.
In another place, a large mountain where the orcs had one of their refineries, the orcs heard of the destruction and locked the entire place. The entire planet was under attack by aliens, and they had to make sure that this place stayed functional. This is one of the thousands of refineries for nuclear weapons that they have, and without their strongest weapons, they’ll definitely lose the war.
But then, they could see something massive flying toward the mountain. It was mountain-sized, but lizard-shaped with wings, and moving several times faster than sound. "What is that..."
Before they could even complain, the titanic brown drakaina hit the mountain on one side with her head, pierced it, and came out of the other, blasting it to pieces as if it were a sand castle.
Arad’s order wasn’t to destroy the orcs, but to destroy their fangs and claws, to disarm them so he could force them to negotiate.