Beyond the Bloodline-Chapter 132: I Make Black Holes Because I Can.
The Elves and Dragons thought Jamie had been consumed by the power of the law of slaughter and was now just going on a senseless rampage, but they could not be any further from the truth.
Jamie had comprehended the law of slaughter aeons ago. Even if he had lost most of his power, his mentality was not one that could be consumed by a derivative sub-law like ’Slaughter’.
As Jamie chased after some retreating elves, he went further and further away from Inholin, getting close enough that he noticed some certain machines in the distance.
’Ohh...there are EREs on this continent as well!’
Realising the presence of the machines he had created to extract resources from other planets, Jamie’s grin widened as he concocted a plan of action.
He ignored the retreating elves and flew towards the EREs and seeing this, the elves and dragons had no choice but to follow as they could not let him damage the machines.
Not because of the sheer number of resources they would lose, but because of what they knew would happen upon the destruction of an ERE.
Something that Jamie knew very well, as he was the one who put it there in the first place!
Just when they caught up to Jamie and were about to start spamming their breath attacks, Jamie silently activated a technique and disappeared from their sight.
’Spatial Depletion.’
Normally, Jamie expanded the space between him and his opponents to make it so that their attacks had longer distances to cross before reaching him, however, he was very much capable of doing the opposite.
By depleting the space between him and the canyon with the EREs, the distance he had to traverse reduced considerably and he arrived there within seconds.
As for why Jamie didn’t straight-up teleport, it was because he wanted to give them the ’hope’ of being able to catch him.
Jamie flew down into the massive canyon and blitzed straight towards the direction of the EREs with the elves and dragons hot on his tail.
They launched all manner of attacks at him, but it was futile.
Projectile attacks were thwarted by the wormholes Jamie generated, sending them out of the planet, while Jamie used spatial expansion to deal with any melee attacks.
Eventually, Jamie reached the EREs and due to the sheer amount of slaughter energy exuding from his being, the machines categorized him as hostile and deployed their defensive barriers to protect themselves.
The imposing behemoths of machinery had towering frames constructed from Estean metals, massive interconnected limbs resembling skeletal appendages and articulated arms equipped with an array of specialized tools.
They resembled giant mechanical spiders, illuminated by an array of powerful lights resembling the spider’s eyes. And beside those eyes were small hatches that opened up to reveal gun ports which aimed right at Jamie and the approaching elves.
But before they could fire, Jamie’s voice rang out.
|Administrator Alpha Command, ERE-34R9B2W.
Passphrase: ’Mira hates being called Violet Inferno’. |
[Voice and Passphrase Confirmed Match.
Welcome, Administrator Alpha.]
It was just like Jamie to use the nickname that Miranda hated so much as the passphrase for such an important piece of machinery.
But while the passphrase was funny, the command Jamie issued right after was not.
|Initiate Self-Destruct Sequence. Countdown: 3. |
[Passphrase Accepted. Command Accepted.]
The dragons who were closest heard the ERE’s mechanical voice and their faces paled as they realised what Jamie wanted to do. They quickly turned around and tried to fly away but Jamie wasn’t gonna let anyone run so easily.
Jamie consumed half of the blood in the orb floating above his head, turning it into energy and used that energy to ’pull’ space together apart, effectively generating a magnetic pull that dragged the fleeing dragons back.
The EREs which were firing beams of plasma to drill through the planet and mine the Ruindeum underground shut off the plasma beams a moment before Jamie spoke once more.
|Begin Countdown|
Jamie issued the command as he drew upon gravity’s power, using it to increase the pulling force that dragged the elves and dragons towards the area.
[3]
The man laughed loudly as he glimpsed the looks of terror on the faces of those who tried to break free but to no avail.
[2]
The energy pulling them was that of the thousands of elves, dragons and the few giants that Jamie had been killing, and in Jamie’s hands, it was displaying an even greater pulling power than it normally would.
[1]
Jamie teleported high up into the sky and looked down at the canyon before calling out the last number.
|[0]!|
In an instant, the EREs simultaneously erupted with immense universal law energy. The exploding energy generated a gravitational force so intense that it caused the space around it to bend, and time itself went haywire.
"Boom."
**BOOOOOMMM!!!
The intense gravitational force generated caused the spacetime fabric to catastrophically break down.
All the dragons and elves were pulled towards the black hole that formed and were sucked into it.
The clouds in the sky were sucked by it, the earth below was sucked into it, the canyon’s walls crumbled and were sucked by it, and the magma beneath the planet’s crust was also sucked by it.
"Mwahahahaha!!!"
Jamie watched all of this while laughing evilly, he stopped when he noticed a surge of multicoloured energy imperceptible to others suddenly fill the area.
This multicoloured energy which surprisingly was not affected by the gravitational pull of the black hole, crashed onto the black hole in waves, wrapping around it and compressing around it as if trying to force it close.
With a glance, Jamie understood what was happening. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
The Planet Zotov itself was trying to deal with the small black hole.
"I guess it’s time to end this before I get sucked into it as well..."
Jamie’s smile vanished and he activated his second Unique skill, consuming the remaining energy in the other half of the blood orb he had floating above him.
|Imperial Privileges: Third Privilege: Reality. |
He closed his fist and used his usurped control of this strange multicoloured energy from Zotov, using it to power his third privilege and alter the fundamental properties of the black hole, causing it to violently vomit all the things it had consumed in the form of energy.
Since it lost all of its energy, the small black hole evaporated.
"All right, Zotov. I’d leave the space-time restoration to you."
Just as Jamie said that, he sensed a presence behind him and turned to see the familiar figure of a teenage black-haired and-eyed boy glaring at him.
"You can’t expect me to restore the destroyed space as well, you know?
I don’t have any energy left in my body. The only reason I’m even able to fly right now is because space itself is keeping me in the air."
From fighting Sanev to slaughtering thousands of dragons and elves, and then closing a black hole with his Imperial Privileges.
Jamie’s energy was far spent, and he had only been able to fight for long because he was draining the blood of the dragons he killed and used the magic power in their blood to refuel himself.
But with all that blood used up, he now had nothing left.
Zotov could sense this as well, which was why the Planet’s Consciousness knew that Jamie could not do a thing about the damaged space-time fabric.
However! The planet was still pissed off that Jamie ordered the EREs to self-destruct in the first place.
Before he could finally say something, Miranda appeared beside Jamie and looked at the wrecked space before sighing in exasperation.
"Was this necessary?"
"Not really?"
"Then why did you do it?"
"Because I could."
Jamie’s reply nearly had Zotov flying over to him to smack him in the face but the planet gritted his teeth to bear the anger, consoling himself with the fact that Jamie was here to help him deal with a bigger threat in the form of Ikerth.
Miranda could see how pissed off Zotov was and the woman sent the planet’s incarnation a gaze of pity as it was going to deal with a lot more than just this when she and Jamie were done with Ikerth.
"Let’s go, Jay."
She pulled Jamie by his collar and conjured a teleportation magic circle which wreathed both of them in light and sent them to another part of the planet.
