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Chapter 6: A Hymn to the Living

Genful, in the midst of joy and pain, saw that moment. No, it may be more accurate to say he felt it. Sucked into the crystal with the darkness of malice surrounding it, he began to lose his human figure. The compensation for the 'falling star' was not the caster’s life as the hearsay would have it. The compensation was the caster’s self.

A change would occur to turn the person into an existence which wasn't a 'person'. Normally. His tenacity was so fierce that even now, though swallowed up by the darkness, he still maintained his self. He was supported only by his crooked desire to see those strange beasts that stormed their way into this world, destroyed in exchange for this nation with his own eyes.

But, against his wishes, a great flash was in the sky. It was perhaps similar to a lightning, glimmering in the dark sky. He noticed that something had been done to the meteorite. His body inside the crystal felt the pain of the meteorite.

——At being hit by the 10 kinetic warheads sent out by the Aegis destroyer, the meteorite experienced getting hit directly by a gigajoule of energy. That was the equivalent of getting a direct hit to the face by something like a hundred ton ball made of steel hitting you at the speed of light. The great speed of the meteorite’s attack was slowed. And, taking the attack, it did not split but scattered about into pieces. The large meteorite formed into dozens of smaller meteorites of various sizes.

But—it is not as though its destructive power was made null. Genful understood that even though its original power to completely destroy the people from a parallel world and Mariisua had been reduced, it still held just quite enough destructive capability to cause a lot of damage.

"Hahahahaha! Fine! Everything will turn to dust! Everything! Everything!"

Genful laughed loudly. His wish would be fulfilled in just a short time. There was no one who could take him down. There should be no one who can stop those meteorites. He was intoxicated by that feeling of conquest. That laughing voice of his which roared in the castle served as a symbol of this country’s despair.

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