Arc 10 - Unholy War - Part 6

The Sahara Desert:

The magicians gathered together in their mystery house. This house is concealed from the rest of the world using magick. It moves around the planet. So, you will never find its true location.

The magicians are about 10 in total. They gather in n circle. Their eyes are closed. They are casting a spell.

The spell will take around an hour to prepare. Once it’s prepared, it’s extremely deadly against the undead.

They want to save this planet, not just because they live in it but because it is their sole purpose in their new life. The new life given to them by a powerless and exiled angel. By an angel who used to be so arrogant that she lost her power for pity reasons. But she has changed.

New York:

Nazar stands in front of thousands of undead. He now knows how to kill them. Permanently.

He just needs to destroy the marble. The marble cannot be destroyed using matter manipulation or atomic manipulation. It’s not made of energy either. What is this thing anyway?

Nazar speeds up. He leave the normal world behind to the humans who are standing on the rooftops or the ones hidden in buildings. He moves faster than a speeding bullet. He moves faster than sound itself. His every step breaks the sound barrier. His every steps break everything in its way.

He speed up and he is near his prey. It takes him less than a second to travel a distance of around 1 KM. He uses that time to come up with a way to kill them. If he punches each one, it will take him approximately 0.03 second. There are millions of them around so it will take forever. He needs to come up with another way.

He uses matter manipulation on thousands in front of him. But it takes him 0.02 seconds to do so. The undead in front of him are a lot but they are scattered around. He needs to take time to come up with a different form of attack.

But for now? For now, he just moves his fingers and the undead distingrates in front of him. As soon as they disintegrate, he moves around and collect a bunch of the marbles. Then he squash them like bugs. He is moving too fast to even hear what the sound of the marble breaking is like.

Disintegrating atoms is not an easy job. You have to study each atom and then break them one by one. Even if you miss one or two, it can cause the entire operation to fail.

After doing this for 10 seconds, he is still in New York. The attacks are working but he needs a better way.

“Think!” Nazar tells himself.

“THINK, DAMN IT!” This time he shouts.

Meanwhile, in Mumbai, the speedster, codename: 054, is not doing so much better either. He moves faster than the speed of sound, but so far he has only killed about a thousand. He speeds ups. He reaches his target. He use his hands as baldes. Then he cuts the undead. Once the undead is cut, he finds the marble and then he destroys it. It takes him a few seconds to just kill one undead.

In Tokyo, 079 is not doing much better either. She has the same number of undead as her other fellow speedsters.

Back in New York, Nazar is still thinking. He has not idea how to use his powers in a better way. He enters his useless mind and thinks of all the ways a fictional character would defeat these kind of monsters.

He looks. He looks. He cannot see a single panel or a scene that will help him.

Nazar tried to use his brain. He thought for the first time in a very long time. He never had to think about these things.

(If I use a large scale matter manipulation or energy manipulation, it will only only damage the close-by environment.)

While he was thinking, he frowned.

But then a light bulb appeared.

(What if I unleash a large scale attack that only target the undead? Can I do that?)

He thought this over and over. How does he come up with an attack that is large scale enough to destroy a city but will only damage the undead.

He first needs to find something that is unique to the undead. Something that will allow him to target the undead only.

After thinking for 10 more seconds he figured something out.

(The marble… It cannot be manipulated using matter manipulation or atomic manipulation. Everything around me are made out of certain types of atoms. So, I need to target the area that does not have atoms. But can I really do that?)

“360-degree senses.” A power that will grant him omnidirectional senses. With this power, he will find that weak spot.

(But I need to change the senses. A human can sense something using the few sensory systems we have; ears, mouth, nose, etc. But I need to go deeper. Omnidirectional senses for atoms.)

“Absolute accuracy.”

(With this I will be able to hit my target properly.)

“Absolute Manipulation.” A power that will allow him to manipulate anything around him.

(With this I should be able to manipulate anything that is not even matter or energy.)

“Okay, let’s get to work.”

He enables his senses. He ‘sees’ everything around him for miles and miles.

(Come on focus!)

He needs to first figure out how to sense a space that has no atoms in it.

He removes all his senses. He cannot hear. He cannot see anything. He cannot taste or smell. He blocked all the main sensory systems and now he is trying to look for atoms.

He see the particles around him. But he is looking for the void without atoms.

After looking at it for a few seconds, he senses something unusual. Something that defies the laws of physics. There are particles around us. Everywhere we are or we go. The air, water, everything has atoms and particles. But he finally finds the void.

This void is empty. A space where there are no atoms, particles, protons, neutrons or anything for that matter. The outside have a form of energy but the inside is completely empty.

Now to target, he targets one, two, three, hundreds, thousands in the city. He then moves his hands. He creates an massive ball of energy.

While he is creating the massive ball of energy, he speeds up in the meantime.

When the energy ball is big enough, he hits it on the ground. The energy ball is made of particles that will explode and create fire when it touches the ‘void of nothingness’. As soon as it touches the void, it will trigger a chain reaction that will explode anyway, even if it does have the right atoms close-by. Think of it like; if you were to place your foot on a landmine, it will only explode when the pressure is released. So, this energy is like a mine that will explode when it reaches a place where there are no atoms.

He hits the energy ball on the ground. He speeds up and moves. He sees the energy reaching its target. He see how the explosion occurs. As soon as the explosion happen, the bodies of the undead are scattered into pieces.

WIth his speed, he was able to destroy each marble in front of him. He might have a missed one or two.

Within 5 minutes he was able to clean out the entire city. After he was finished with the city, he stopped and sighed. He was a little tired and in the last seconds, he got a little slower.

He did this in some other cities too.

“002, are you there?” A voice said on the comm. It was a voice of a woman. Unlike the others, he voice was not very cold and she sounded cheerful.

(Yeah that’s right, I never returned the comm back 002.)

“Sorry, but it’s me. Your archenemy.” Nazar replied to the voice on the comm.

“N-N-Nazar?”

“Yeah. I am Nazar.”

“Y-you are not m-my enemy.”

“Huh? Really? I mean you are ANTF, the organisation which is created to kill me. So, I don’t understand.”

“I-I am actually a big fan...”

“Oh? Well, then nice to meet you.”

“Y-yes. N-nice to meet you. I am 022 by the way.”

“Well, 022 nice to meet you. Ah, I finished with New York and nearby cities, so I will transport 002 somewhere else and give him back his comm.”

“Okay.”

After he said that, he moved towards New York city again. 002 was standing there in front of nothingness.

“Here is your comm. I forgot it earlier.”

Nazar handed out the comm and gave it to 002. But 002 does not know that Nazar actually created a copy of this and he hijacked their communication systems. He is now hearing everything they say.

“I was going to ask for it but then you left.”

On the comm, 022 said, “I think my attack will be powerful enough to kill a lot of them. But I could not get to the 001. So, you are the next in line of comma...”

Before she could finish, Nazar interrupted their conversation.

“What power do you have?”

Both 002 and 022 were surprised to find out that he was still connected to the communication system.

“M-my power is weather manipulation.”

Nazar was pleased to hear that. An idea came to his mind.

“Huh? That’s so cool. I have a plan. I will teleport you here.”

As he said that, he just teleported her here without any thought.

She had black hair and black eyes. She was 165 CM tall. She was wearing the same grey uniform as other ANTF soldiers.

“Okay, here is the plan. Can you make thunders?”

“Y-yes.”

“How much control do you have over it? Can you control where the lightning will strike?”

“I-I have a little traini...”

“Okay, then you will be coming with me.” Nazar said that with a smile. Both 002 and 022 were shocked.

He picked her up and place a barrier around her.

“Eh? What’s happening?” She was almost scared to feel a weird aura around her.

“It is a psychic barrier that I placed around you. I will be moving faster than Mach 100 and I don’t want you to get hurt.”

She was pleased to hear that. Her expression also showed that she was surprised to hear that from him.

“So, what will I doing?” At first, she was scared when she talked to him. A little excited too. But after a minute, she was no longer scared. She was told stories of how scary Nazar is, but meeting him for the first time was different.

“I will take you to each city. I will gather undead in groups and then I want you to strike them with lightning. Got it?”

“Yes, but how did you manage to clean up New York by yourself?”

“I used an energy attack. It was useful but it made me much weaker. It required a lot of concentration and I kind of damaged some properties. I was already a little weaker from creating so many copied. This way will take longer but it means I will not be as weak as if I use other methods.”

“Okay, got it.”

They arrived at London.

Nazar left 022 in the city. He left her on top of a building. From there on, she manipulated the wind around her and started to float next to the clouds.

Massive clouds appeared over the city. Thunder was moving in the sky. It roared like a lion. It waited there for its prey.

Down in the city, Nazar gathered all the undead in three different locations.

He set up a telepathic link between him and 022 and told her where to strike. 022 was shocked but it was not the time to argue.

The thunder was massive and it separated into three different thunders. It struck the enemy so hard that the buildings nearby were a little damaged. The roads were destroyed.

As soon as the thunder struck, Nazar moved faster than Mach 100. He pushed himself. He has not slept in days. He was already tired to begin with and he was pushing his powers like never before. It made him slower and weaker.

But he managed to destroy every marble he could find. London was clean as well.

Now to other cities.

Nazar went from one city to another doing something similar.

Some cities where speedsters were also cleaned up pretty well so far. But they still had much to do.

Some cities were still heavily populated with the undead. Nazar first went for the heavily populated undead and then moved around to other cities.

Millions of undead were killed. It was not just 022 who contributed a lot to this, but along the way, Nazar picked up other superhumans who had destructive powers. For example, he picked up 078 who could manipulate fire. With his help, he was able to slow down the undead long enough to remove their ‘power source’ as 095 dubbed it. He also picked up all the speedsters from across the world and the work was much more easier.

Some of them were willing to work with him for now, but others were hestentant. That’s why it took them more than an hour to kill almost all the undead.

Only a few thousand were left across the planet. They were left because during a lightning strike, Nazar probably forgot one or two.

They all returned to New York.

The magicians all teleported to New York.

“The spell is ready.”

“Spell?” 045 asked.

“Yes, a planet-wide spell that will destroy up to hundred thousand undead and close any portals that might be open.” Raj explained. “Sorry, it took longer than an hour.”

“Hey, it’s no problem.”

A few of the ANTF muttered, “Magick is real?!”

The magicians went to the middle of the street.

They stood in the circle.

Once they started the final part of the spell, a magic circle appeared. The magic circle was created from green energy. The same colour of energy as other magical attacks.

The magic circle increased. It increased. It covered the entire city block. It covered the entire city. It covered the entire state. It covered the entire country. And after 10 minutes it covered the entire world.

The green magic circle was now on the ground. If you looked from anywhere you could see it. Any undead that were left died.

The magicians returned and one of them said, “It’s done.”

“Huh? Really? That’s it?” 025 said.

Nazar smiled and said, “Yes. If you don’t trust them, I will go around the entire planet again and check every place. To see if there are any left.”

“No, you don’t have to do that.” 009 said.

“I will. I want to make sure it is done too.”

He stood there. He was accelerating and the speedsters watched him.

One speedster asked, “What is he doing?”

“I don’t know,” another speedster replied.

He has accelerated enough to reach Mach 50 as soon as he make a movement. He lifted his leg and and moved. As soon as he did, most of the ANTF soldiers were thrown away. The sonic boom was so strong that a few ears started to bleed. A few cars flipped and exploded. The road beneath his foot melted.

Nazar moved across. Increasing his speed. Beyond Mach 50. Then beyond Mach 100. Then when it was not enough, he pushed beyond Mach 100. He was tired. Weakened but he still needed to push himself. He pushed and pushed and now he was above Mach 200.

When he reached Mach 200, the world slowed down even further. Even the electricity stopped moving. Atoms were no longer coming together.

He covered every inch of the attacked cities and close-by locations.

30 minutes later he returned and said, “It worked.”

“Of course it worked.” A magician replied.

“Uh, so why are you guys still here?”

“Aarin is in trouble.”