Alistair slashed his sword cutting through the drones that surrounded him, this cut of almost three quarters of all the drones brought. The only surviving ones were the ones left by the helicopter.
He slashed his sword again sending power towards the helicopters. The cultivators reacted fast and tried to content against him, sending their own powers towards towards him.
One of the helicopters was not so lucky, it was knocked to the side with the pilot screaming for help before it bursted into flames. It dissolved into ash it's ashes blown away by the winds.
Seeing this the cultivators launched downward towards him in a synchronized manner. They formed a human formation. On their armours it shinedwith transcribed talismans . Their spirweapons caught the rising sun reflecting different colors .
A commander shouted from above in the helicopters,
" Contain him! Seal him! Form the formation!"
The weapons formed into huge chains as they shot towards Alistair,as they weaved into a huge net planning to cover Alistair.
When the chains touched him, they increased in weight and pushed him down . The ground around him was pushed down as Alistair held the chains. It closed around him trying to hold him down. Thry wanted to cage him like an animal.
While holding the chain with one hand, he slashed his sword across the golden net. It cut through it like it was tofu. The cultivators gasped at that. They had paefected that formation and it had been used to catch alot of disaster level crimals and beasts that escaped into the city or just terrorized the people. They had underestimated the enemy.
He slashed his sword again now coated with one of the flames. It sent a wave of fire towards the. Most of them could not stop it were cut in half while others had seriously injuries on them.
Their soul flames flew toward Alistair and he stored them into the system.
The helicopters above threw explosive talismans which forced Alistair to jump back, this helped the bought time for the army to save the seriously wounded.
( Throne resonance, activated)
He focused on the helicopters that were blasting lights at him. All the lights in the helicopters flickered, the dashboard icons were biping while going on and off. One by one their headlights ignited gold just like his wings and then they went off. The dashboard icons went off as well after lighting gold.
The glasses cracked one by one splitting into small pieces. Voices appeared from the headlights and dashboard icons as though a portal had been opened by the golden light.
The sound grew louder until the soldiers who were in the helicopters clutched their ears as they tried to silence the voices.
Some of them screamed as their ears , mouth, eyes and noses started to bleed. The weak ones had their brains directly turned to mush.
All of a sudden a light surrounded the helicopters. Alistair had activated an illumination field around the helicopters. By the time it disappeared there was no one in the helicopters.
The helicopters all fell to the ground as breaking into a pile of metal. All of this happened in mere seconds before the remaining cultivators had time to react and rescue.
Only soul flames and normal flames were left there floating in the air. They all flew towards Alistair who stored them without looking.
( New souls acquired+213)
( Soul types : mortal -50 , cultivators -163)
Alistair exhaled softly. He then turned to look at the cultivators who were standing on the ground looking at him in shock.
....
One of the cultivators captains fell to his knees tears streaming down. What he had whiteness the deaths , the show of raw power and just plain fear.
The world is ending. The communicator stone in his hands cracked as he said into it panic in his voice.
" Command , he's strong , the lights he uses the light..."
His voice came to an end when Alistair pushed slashing his sword towards the remaining cultivators. Some were sliced in half , others their bodies burst before they could even react while others had died grom shock.
He collected the souls , with one last glance into the sky. He disappeared beneath the shadows of the tree as sun rose fully .
Far above in space , in the orbit , satellite captured one last image before their sensors failed.
A lone figure standing amid a field of white light, the ground underneath him had cracked into patterns that looked like a formation.
They could not get a picture of his face.
The outside world namedhim the man in the light. He was put on the list as number one most wanted criminal.
...
In a small room filled with large computers and the sound of typing, surveillance officers huddle around the last remaining monitor. After a few rounds of typing, a grainy footage appeared on the screen.
A light swallowing helicopters, soldiers and cultivators without them having the chance to fight back. There was no source of power only the tragic footage of the deaths.
The footage was only two seconds long. It was the only long footage they had managed to acquire. The image were blurred but they could still hear the last shouts of the soldiers.
The coordinates flickered red: 46°07°N, 120°44°S.
The center of what used to be the death mountain.
The minister of intelligence leaned forward. His eyes were sunken despite his reputation for staying calm.
" What the fuck was that?' he said that out loud.
The others in the room remained quite as they also didn't know what was happening. This was a new type of power and cultivation module that had not been recorded.
The world feared what they could not see it understand.
" And our satellite ? " He asked again.
" Offline sir. The orbit cultivators reported a spiritual disturbance that destroyed every light source in the satellite."
The man laughed at the absurdity of everything that is happening around them.
..
In an expensive office, the minister of war was sitting against his chair as he looked at the small footage from the sent by the minister of intelligence.
After seeing the fotage, he broke the table.
" The first and fotrh infantry just wiped out like that."
The footage had been too hard for him to watch again. The man was going to be a disaster if he is not caught.
He stood up and headed for the council.
...
The tv programs broadcasted emergency news every now and then to prevent the citizens from panicking.
"- this is an official announcement from the cloud council. The anomalous event has been contained. A beast had gone rogue but has been put under confinement. Citizens are instructed to remain calm."
This emergency broadcast were scripted and announced everytime a fight that could affect the world happened.
..
In the cloud council meeting room.located in the capital,was filled with the nine leaders that each district in the world.
The chamber was circular . Nine thrones hung in the air with the leaders sat. Hovered around a table of black shimmering stone. It was made from the meteorites that fell on the world initiating the awakening.
On the table screens flickered as they saw the grainy footage.
" Everyone is dead," one of the leaders said, the head of the eastern district.
" We should retaliate," another from the central district said.
" The high level cultivators are in seclusion, the Dom will open in a months time," the man sitting on the highest seat said. He was from the western district. " Rhey will not respond."
" We have a huge problem on it hands, hhm" the leader of the northern district.
While they were talking the footage on the table changed to words. You shall creat a hero. The demon lord has been reborn. He is very hungry and will swallowed the the world .
Everyone in the council was startled by this.
" The celestials have sent a message, we should creat a hero. How are we even supposed to do that?" The head of the Eastern distryict.
Celestials were messangers from God and their words ment the will of the Gods.
" We'll creat a hero academy, all the talented students poor or rich will be able to attend. The strongest will be the hero. We will choose the party from all the sect, Faith's and cooperation."
" Anyone who objects?" No words.
" Then it is decided, we shall opened a hero academy in the capital."
" Spread the word."
They all left the council room.
...
"- this is an official announcement from the cloud council. The council has decided to creat a school to admit all talented students regardless of race, language or money. There will be testing of your talent and only the talented one's will be able to be admitted. The admission will be in every district and qualified will taken to the capital training. "
...
Alistair was walking on the streets when he saw the announcement from a restaurant window.
" Academy? " He smiled, " things were getting interesting."
He disappeared into the night.