1027 I Am Death
Varian grabbed the crippled Thunder King and shot through the wall of lighting which was the door to the abyss.
When he tried to enter into the Mirage Abyss in the past, he nearly died due to this defense mechanism.
But today, he tore through the defense like it was nothing.
Then, he teleported above the capital city.
The sky of Thunder abyss was always filled with dark clouds with lightning flashing every second. The plants, the beasts, even the soil and water were all attuned to lightning. It was a wonderful, beautiful world inhabited by the thunder abyssals.
But today, it'd breathe its last.
"Thunder Abyss, today is your end." Varian's deep voice resounded like the loudest
roar of thunder the abyss had ever witnessed.
Then, the super charged aura in Varian shot out as a beam towards the sky.
The ever-present dark clouds in the Thunder Abyss dispersed as a tsunami of aura swept the sky.
For the first time in centuries, the sky was clear again. But what lied beyond the dark clouds was an ominous red sky.
"What's happening?"
"The sky! The sky is falling!"
"Has lightning abandoned us?"
The cries of the abyssals filled the cities as they flooded the streets and stared at the sky with wide eyes.
They all wondered if this was a cruel illusion played by some human enemy that sneaked it.
Humans shouldn't be able to sneak in after the lightning defense was set up at the entrance. Even Varian couldn't. But they'd rather believe an enemy used an illusion on them than think this might be reality. If it was…it's too scary.
The people on the capital, however, could see clearly. A silhouette was standing in the sky as it glowed with a brilliance akin to the suns in the solar system.
And for some reason, their hearts gripped as they saw a pitiful figure floating in front of that silhouette.
Since the war began, only weaker abyssals stayed behind. So, they couldn't see who that figure was. But there was an air of familiarity to him.
"Who are you?!"
"Get out of our land!"
"Our King will slaughter you if you try anything funny!"
The abyssals of the capital roared at him while they pushed their families into the safety of their homes. The men and women who could fight united and shouted at him.
The might of their combined voices shook the sky and it sounded like an apocalyptic thunder.
But Varian was unmoved.
'A single person couldn't fight an army' was an old concept. It still applied to most awakeners. Even level 8s can't fight endless level 7s. And level 3s certainly can't fight more than a few level 2s. But when you hit a new threshold in strength, then things changed.
Varian's aura glowed and shaped into a phantom of a giant human warrior. Its head stood where the clouds should've been and its feet were on the ground.
The giant was visible from every corner of the Thunder Abyss. It seemed like it was standing between heaven and earth, pushing up the sky and kicking down the ground, holding the entire world on its shoulders.
Facing such a marvelous and scary sight, the abyssals fell silent. And then, the voice that was like the rumbling of a thousand thunders filled the world.
"The people of Neptune have died in billions. Men, women, children all faced the same fate. They were brutally murdered by your brethren like cattle in the butcher house. No, they had it worse.
They ran for their lives on the streets and they were chased and killed brutally. Your fathers, brothers, sons and husbands inflicted such pain on my people that an entire generation would be scarred. Even if my strength grows a hundred times, I could never erase those scars."
The thunderous voice was filled with sadness, grief and indignation.
But the abyssals didn't like it.
"You are the reason our homeland was being destroyed!"
"Billions were dead? We lost tens of billions!"
"Entire provinces, the sizes of your planets were gone! Burnt to the ground and ravaged!"
"Had you stopped this senseless fighting, my mother's lineage there wouldn't have been slaughtered!"
Varian stared at the abyssals shouting in the streets and noticed the fanaticism in their eyes.
He also understood why abyssals were so brutal on Neptune. With their homeland under destruction, they had gone crazy.
It was their fault that they didn't finish humans in a week like they were instructed. But they were unable to digest that their negligence was the reason for such massacre in their homeland.
So, they blamed humans. They lied to themselves to the point they began to believe it. So, they're beyond any reasoning now.
"So be it." Varian lifted his hand and so did the giant. "Let humans bear the responsibility for every death of your kind in your homeland. Let us be the devils that are to be blamed for the slaughter that occurred there."
The giant's hand began to glow and Varian's face was covered under the bright light.
"Blood will be paid with blood. Life with life." Varian punched down.
The sky on a city lit up in a multitude of colors and beams of light shot down from the sky and enveloped the city.
The abyssals screamed as a terrible amount of aura poured down and drowned them. A few seconds later, the entire city, the millions of abyssals in it were gone.
"Since you made us the devils we weren't," Varian's voice was indifferent, as if he just erased a stain on a sheet of paper. "I shall become the one you seek."
The giant glowed so brilliantly that every abyssal in the Thunder abyss closed their eyes.
"No! No! Stop! I beg you!" Thunder King struggled even as his body began to rip apart with each word he uttered.
Varian didn't even spare him a glance as he let the entire sky above the Thunder Abyss light up with his aura.
The giant spread its arms and the sky began to shake.
The world will of the Thunder abyss resisted fiercely and tried to wrestle back control of the sky. But a snap from Varian blew it away.
And then, a colorful beam, no, a colorful tsunami of light fell from the sky and drowned the Thunder Abyss.
As the light enveloped them in its cold embrace, the Thunder abyssals heard his voice for one last time.
"I am the nightmare of your dreams, the devil of your hopes and the death of your race."
