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Chapter 1508 - Boom
🕑 Added 2024-12-12 01:00:04 +0000 UTCI contain a huge amount of gravity mana these days, but as the spheres start to fill up, I worry that I might not have enough. Trying to whip together a gravity mana construct at this point would be an exercise in futility, all of my minds are dedicated to holding this lousy thing in place as I sprint to the finish line.
Unsurprisingly, the snail is heading right for me, both eyes stretched forward atop their stalks, staring hatefully at my gleaming diamond perfection. I suppose it’s a good thing, makes aiming easier. I am a little worried about how quickly it’s approaching though. Can I fill this damn thing up any faster?!
I mean, this thing is taking forever to cast!
There isn’t much I can do to speed it up though. I’m moving as much mana as I safely can, and condensing it as fast as possible. So many of my minds are dedicated just to holding the rest of the spell in place, preventing the mana from shifting even an iota as I prepare to complete the cast.
I watch, nervously, as the spheres on my right and left continue to swell. I’ve been close to gravity bombs several times, but not this close! I can’t help but have a bit of anxiety about the two orbs just hovering there… ominously.
I keep expecting to hear the characteristic shriek of the wind, feel the air whipping my antennae about, but it doesn’t happen. The two bombs sit there, inert, just… growing.
Finally, when the snail is only a few hundred metres away, the spell is ready. I feed in the last possible drop of power I hold within me, crush it down one final time, then let it rip.
I don’t have the time to give it a final check, so here’s hoping it works!
I expect something to happen immediately, and I duck down, covering my head with my legs, but… there’s nothing? Wait! Something is happening! It’s slow at first, but the two bombs are moving. As the seconds tick past, they move faster, and it takes a bit but I work out what’s happening. They’re orbiting each other.
The two spheres of absolute darkness rotate, tracing a circle in front of me, one rising above, the other dipping beneath. Faster and faster they spin, increasing in speed well beyond the point where I thought they couldn’t get any faster. Then I realise something else, the orbit is decaying! The two bombs are getting closer together!
Holy moly… I have a really bad feeling about this!
The snail is close enough now to make its presence felt. It rears back, drawing its head almost all the way into its shell before it lunges forward, unleashing a torrent of violently orange sludge that fills the air with noxious fumes the moment it appears.
Come on, spell!
The two bombs draw closer and closer and when I extend my senses for a moment I can feel the truly absurd amount of power being generated between the two spheres.
Man, I wish I had a shell I could hide inside, the suspense is killing me!
The two spheres finally touch and purple lightning explodes from the contact. Crackling purple light jags through the air and rips deep grooves into the rock, even digging lines into the diamond platform!
Whoops!
Still rotating, the two bombs continue to fall into each other, combining, merging, and forming… something else.
A hideous void takes shape at the heart of the merger, pulsing with dreadful power. More lightning cracks around the orb, forming a halo of destruction from which forks leap out to tear across whatever they touch, including my own carapace! Ouch!
Finally, the two bombs fuse completely, and only the void is left in their place. I cringe in fear from my own creation. There is so. Much. Power! That orb to me looks like a herald of death more than an angel of salvation!
So much energy, an absurd amount, all held in place by the spell form I created. But even that shape, so intricate and layered, can’t hold this beast back for long!
No, something has to give, and at last, it does.
A tiny hole appears, an infinitesimal opening, and the void, unable to hold itself together any longer, unleashes its energy through that gap.
The world around me goes black. Time slows.
A lance of pure darkness blasts forth and the world seems to scream in pain.
Ah, I think I figured out what this spell is called.
Singularity.
I don’t want to look, but I can’t close my eyes. Everything the beam touches is annihilated. Everything near the beam is annihilated. Like the finger of the reaper, everything it points at just ceases to exist, broken apart at the atomic level.
The noxious fumes are gone.
The orange sludge is gone.
The snail? You guessed it. GONE.
More accurately, a good chunk of it is gone. The beam itself is probably a metre wide, and it bores a hole straight through the offending gastropod.
The void collapses in on itself, shrinking with each passing second as all of its energy is given to the beam. When the orb finally winks out of existence, the beam goes with it.
Light returns. Time returns.
The gathered ants and militia watch in stunned silence. Even the monsters of the fifth seem momentarily cowed, unable to understand what they just saw.
Even I don’t understand it, dammit! And that was unempowered!
Just what am I becoming?
Comments
TheShadowSlayer_
I agree. Singularity feels like what we should call a Gravity Bomb so powerful it creates a non-mana-fueled black hole (same way fire spells create non-mana-fuel fired, etc.). This spell is much closer to what happens when two neutron starts collide, i.e. a super nova. Something like Nova Lance or Quasar Jet would fit better
Forrest Ogden
Singularity is a bad ass name and suits what it does during the wind up and what happens to the environment when it's used. BUT. I feel like quasar fits what it does a little better. Just a thought. Singularity sounds much more endgame.
SuperNewbie
I mean it just doesn’t seem to do anything gravity related; how is this different from a highly powered fire beam or lightning beam or destruct-o-beam or energy beam? Just boring DBZ beam imo
Elmithian
Were you expecting it to launch clowns or something? Or maybe high energy radiation? The latter would still be a beam attack. Gravity is gravity, and you're usually not going to get complex surprises out of it. You're going to get the greatest destructive power we can currently fathom. On the other hand, it might genuinely just have opened up a void, and who knows what he can use that for in the future? Time dilation, sensory shifts and so on. Oh and it would be interesting if it might influence quantum states on a macro level, but that is just a wild idea from me.
Brian Schwab
I just had a scary thought. There was mention of seconds passing as the void shrunk down during the beam firing, which implies it has a duration to it and isn’t instantaneous, and since it’s directed by his spell, then couldn’t he move spray the beam around as it’s firing when he gets better with it, vastly increasing the area of effect he can hit with it? Or was that duration just subjective to him as there was mention of time freezing and resuming?
Hayden Leech
BLAAAAAAAAAA
Philldoran
I get it, it’s like the output from a black hole, right? Only that comes from 1, not 2, and has more to do with side effects but still, same effect. https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Blackhole_jets_MOBILE_v1.svg
andwhyisit
Hopefully this death laser isn't stupidly long or people are going to get accidentally atomised.
Grey Knight Lord
I believe the slowness form it comes from his lack of training with it. Given enough time, he should be able to shoot it off much faster
Wolve
TFTC
alt31415
“Whoops!” – ANTHONY! “The beam itself is probably a metre wide, and it bores a hole straight through the offending gastropod. “ – I mean… would that be enough? At Tier 5, Anthony survived (albeit with immediate medical attention) being sliced in HALF.
Robothaus
"And upon that day we did witness yet another of The Great One's miracles! With the vile forces of the fifth bearing down on us he began to twist his balls with such torsion that that a mighty wind did blow and where upon they touched in that instant a mighty shaft of gravity thrust forward penetrating into the deepest depths of the stratum! Those of us so privileged to be present in that moment were forever changed!"
SuperNewbie
I hate to say it, but I feel like gravity infused beam attacks are still boring old beam attacks
gabriel vieira
AHEJROFOENOFOGNEOFMEOFJGNRODNGJEKFJR
Buck
Too true! 😂
Brian Schwab
I called it! The fifth has a brand new clean straight tunnel, just not as wide as I thought it would be. But I wonder if there is a thin line of condensed matter that fell from this beam or a condensed ball at the end of the path like the gravity bomb leaves behind, as this is a gravity based spell. Unless it’s just pure destruction like a gamma ray burst from the colliding gravity bombs in the spell.
taukid
HE'S FIRIN HIS LAZA!
Nathan Emerson
It's biggest weakness is it's slowness and that enemies could get out of the way. I wonder if you could change it's aim after it's launched.
Nathan Emerson
So sort of like a laser of annilation.
Michael
My b, thought I typed that
andwhyisit
It's "fare against", not "fair against", just fyi.
Ruwa
Look into the void and the void looks back Or in this case shoots a beam of pure annihilation
Brandon14754
this is basically just a stronger version of the gravity well black pillar that he needed two of to kill the heralds, one would probably do it but the main issue seems to be it only has a diameter of 1 meter (not including the destruction outside the main beam) and it's long charge up time, depending on the distance the beam traveled this could be a great long distance sniper attack
Nasrak Ragnarok
Hmm. Clearly something specific happened during the orbiting and combining process, but wouldn’t ripping space cause more fallout than that? It seemed more like condensation into something rather than the removal of the space, since removal of the space would either leave the void there or cause a large reaction when space fixes the hole.
Gabus Deux
To me it read more like ripping space and opening a mini wormhole to the void
Xx xX
He could probably have one shot those tier 8 demons from way back if it out right annihilated a upper tier 7 with ease and then some like that
Anthony Romanov
Simply FANTASTIC!!! Ps RinoZ check out Gravastars on YouTube (theoretical alternative to Black Holes ;)
Runaway_Cactuar
Days since Anthony got traumatized by his decisions: 0
Ranger Dave
Very cool, I wonder just how far this gravity beam extended
DrDankness
Gravitational annihilation Peak.
Ryan Roberts
I thought he would get a quasar beam but this is just as good
Zielscheibe
Vote for the Pov of Beyn, the head priest. He goes nuts
Nasrak Ragnarok
Interesting. So it looks like the new level of condensed gravity used here made it into a beam of destruction rather than just the compactor his gravity bombs are. It’s far more destructive, and, crucially, far less dangerous to Anthony than his bombs, so it looks like he has a new ultimate move. Now if only it didn’t use all of his mana.
Jeremiah
Death beam
Buck
Wow! Knew it would be powerful but that is even stronger than I expected. It is really good that Anthony has this new spell. It gives him a gravity-based spell he can use against individual beings. Gravity Bomb and Gravity Well are powerful but they are more AoE attacks. Can’t wait to see the reaction of those who witnessed the inaugural attack of the Singularity spell.
KooZnack
🔦 ⚡️
Daddy Frog
Yes, become the herald of gravitonic doom
Michael
Thank you for the chapter
Michael
Wonder how this would fair against a tier 8
KooZnack
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