Chapter 92: [92]: The Alliance of Saints, Boiling the Ocean
I’m not fighting an army, Princess." Sebastian smirked. A dark and utterly unhinged glint appeared in his visible silver eyes. "I’m going to talk to the manager."
He turned on his heel. He didn’t walk to the teleportation dais. He didn’t need it anymore. He was the Sovereign of Laws.
He tapped into his absolute authority over spatial coordinates.
"Hold the fort." Sebastian said.
FZZZT.
—-
The transition wasn’t a dizzying blur of light. It was an instant and seamless snap from the claustrophobic medical ward of Sanctuary to the absolute desolate nightmare of the Arctic Circle.
Sebastian materialized on a jagged floating iceberg.
The wind hit him instantly. It howled with the force of a massive hurricane. But Sebastian didn’t shiver.
His conceptual [Thermal Immunity] batted the cold temperatures away like annoying gnats.
He looked up.
The sky above the North Pole was completely broken. It didn’t look like a sunset or a storm.
It looked like someone had taken a massive jagged knife and slashed a five-mile-wide hole through the fabric of the universe.
Through the tear, the terrifying and chaotic expanse of the Ethereal Plane’s outer servers was visible. Swirling nebulas of corrupted purple mana and massive floating fortresses drifted in the cosmic void.
This was the Juncture. The backdoor to Earth.
And guarding the door were three gods.
Hovering directly beneath the massive tear in reality were three Saints. They weren’t fighting. They were waiting.
They had felt the catastrophic spike in the server’s code when Sebastian had literally increased gravity by a factor of a thousand to crush Helios. They knew an anomaly was coming.
Sebastian stood on the iceberg. His black leather coat whipped wildly in the wind. He didn’t bother using stealth because he wanted them to see him.
"Hey! Which one of you assholes is in charge of customer service?!" Sebastian’s voice boomed. It was magically amplified to easily cut through the roaring blizzard.
The three Saints slowly descended and stopped a hundred feet above the freezing churning ocean.
The one in the center was massive. He was clad in heavy blocky armor made of pure unrefined bedrock and diamond. He held a war hammer the size of a minivan.
[Entity: Saint Terra]
[Class: Earth Deity]
[Level: 86]
To his left was a woman made entirely of shifting elegant blue liquid. She wielded a trident of condensed ice and stared at Sebastian with eyes like deep trenches.
[Entity: Saint Hydros]
[Class: Ocean Deity]
[Level: 84]
And to the right floated a man on wings of burning solar plasma. He looked remarkably like the squashed piñata Sebastian had left in his front yard.
[Entity: Saint Apollo]
[Class: Solar Deity]
[Level: 85]
"You." Apollo hissed. His voice radiated pure unadulterated heat that melted the snow falling around him. "I felt my brother’s connection sever. You are the glitch that murdered Helios."
"I didn’t murder him." Sebastian replied calmly and dug his hands into his pockets.
"I just helped him understand the gravity of his trespassing. Now, I’m here to close your little window. Kindly step aside, or I’m going to have to recycle your code."
Saint Terra laughed. It sounded like two boulders grinding together.
"Arrogance." Terra rumbled. "You killed one of us in a surprise attack, Anomaly. You rely on broken tricks."
"But we are the Vanguard of the Void. We have consumed a dozen worlds. You cannot edit reality faster than we can destroy it!"
"Watch us." Hydros whispered.
The Ocean Deity raised her trident high above her head.
She didn’t cast a fireball. She didn’t throw a spear of ice. She tapped into the conceptual godly power of her Level 84 class.
"Boil." Hydros commanded.
The effect was instantaneous and apocalyptic.
The entire Arctic Ocean surrounding Sebastian’s iceberg didn’t just heat up. It violently and catastrophically boiled!
Millions of gallons of freezing seawater instantly flashed into super-heated steam.
FWOOSH!
A massive blinding cloud of scalding white vapor erupted into the sky. It instantly obscured everything.
The heat was so intense it would have instantly cooked a Level 60 player alive inside their armor.
Sebastian just stood there entirely unbothered as the boiling ocean raged around him. His [Thermal Immunity] made the apocalyptic heat wave feel like a mild humid summer day.
"Is that it?" Sebastian asked and his voice echoed through the dense fog. "My coffee was hotter than this."
"Die!" Apollo roared.
Through the thick steam, a dozen massive blinding beams of concentrated solar energy tore down from the sky. They were aimed directly at Sebastian’s coordinates.
The lasers hit the iceberg and instantly vaporized the ice. It turned the water beneath it into localized plasma explosions.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Sebastian didn’t dodge. He just tapped his foot.
[Law Edit: Spatial Reflection]
He didn’t summon a water mirror. He didn’t block the light.
He fundamentally altered the geometric properties of the space exactly one inch above his head. He turned the invisible air into an absolute perfect mirror.
The solar beams hit the edited space and violently bounced back exactly where they came from.
"GAAH!" Apollo shrieked from the sky as his own ultimate attack was reflected directly into his chest plate. He was blown backward through the air in a shower of golden sparks.
Sebastian sighed and shook his head. "You guys are really bad at this. It’s like fighting toddlers with cheat codes."
The steam suddenly parted.
Saint Terra didn’t use magic. The massive Earth Deity dropped from the sky like a meteor. His minivan-sized diamond war hammer was raised high above his head.
He was aiming to physically smash the entire iceberg and Sebastian along with it into dust.
"I AM INDESTRUCTIBLE!" Terra roared. His body glowed with a heavy brown conceptual armor.
Sebastian looked up at the descending mountain of a man. He didn’t pull his Earth Sword. He didn’t manipulate gravity.
He just pulled his right hand out of his pocket.
"Indestructible?" Sebastian muttered. A cold and utterly terrifying smile spread beneath his silver visor. "Let’s test that theory."
He reached for the darkest and most terrifying conceptual law in his arsenal. It was the one he had pulled from the pathetic beginner’s hex back in the library.
Sebastian stepped into the swing and raised his bare black-gloved hand directly into the path of the descending diamond hammer.