The Honkai core, abundant with Honkai energy, was converted into Shun's energy. Immediately afterward, the Imaginary Reconstruction ability was activated, but Shun limited the range to only this small area under the table.
"Kira Sister, hold me tight." With one hand holding the Honkai core and the other gently stroking the top of Shigure Kira's head, Shun could not free his hands to continue embracing her.
Still in a dazed state, Shigure Kira obediently complied and hugged Shun, who was already in her arms, even tighter.
The sky was suddenly torn apart by a dazzling light, as if a god had slashed open a gash in the firmament. It was not a meteor, but a massive meteorite. With the force of thunder, it crossed the atmosphere and fell toward Earth carrying destructive power. The air emitted a piercing screech from the high-speed friction with the meteorite. People on the ground looked up in terror as the meteorite, like a burning sun, grew larger and larger, closer and closer. Its diameter was a full five hundred meters. Its surface burned from friction, emitting scorching red light that illuminated half the sky.
"Boom!" A tremendous roar, like the fury of the universe. The moment the meteorite struck Earth, time seemed to freeze. At the impact point, a blinding white light erupted, brighter than the sun. Immediately afterward, a massive shockwave spread outward in all directions with the meteorite as the center. The earth trembled, mountains collapsed, and oceans boiled.
The meteorite struck the ground, forming an enormous crater whose depth and width were impossible to estimate. The high temperature generated by the impact melted the surrounding rocks, creating a sea of fire. The shockwave swept across everything, turning all life and structures into dust. Dust and rock fragments were thrown high into the air, blocking out the sky. The world fell into darkness. The sun's light was completely obscured. Only the flames at the meteorite impact point flickered in the darkness, like the entrance to hell.
Immediately afterward, even more terrifying disasters followed one after another. Due to the intense vibrations caused by the meteorite impact, the earth began to shake violently. Earthquakes of unprecedented scale ravaged the land like the hands of demons. High-rise buildings in the cities swayed and eventually collapsed with a crash. Roads cracked, bridges fell, and transportation was paralyzed. At the same time, long-dormant volcanoes were awakened. They spewed out scorching lava and rolling thick smoke, mercilessly devouring all life around them.
It was only a long time later that Shun felt the shaking of the earth begin to subside. Right before the meteorite fell, he had taken Shigure Kira and escaped into Imaginary Space, becoming the only survivors within several hundred kilometers.
"Little Shun… are we still alive?" Shigure Kira held Shun tightly. She had heard all the commotion that had just occurred.
"Don't worry, Kira Sister. We are still alive." However… Shun looked up and saw that they were now inside a giant meteorite crater more than five hundred meters deep and over eight kilometers in diameter.
The power of this meteorite impact had reached the equivalent of 100 billion tons of TNT — equal to the total stockpile of all humanity's nuclear weapons. Such an energy release would directly destroy a medium-sized country and cause severe damage within several thousand kilometers around the impact site.
In short, because Schicksal had set up this front-line command center in Warsaw, Poland, under this world-destroying meteorite attack, Poland had once again been wiped out without any ripples.
Losing people while keeping the land, losing both while keeping neither, keeping people while losing the land, or keeping both — but this time it seemed Poland had lost both land and people.
Declaring war with this meteorite? Shun estimated that if other factors were not considered, this single meteorite could set human civilization back several hundred years.
Looking up at the sky, now covered by dust, was proof enough. There was no doubt that this disaster was global and could even be considered the most severe natural disaster humanity had suffered since the development of civilization.
After this meteorite fell, Sirin and humanity had become irreconcilable. The number of people directly killed by Sirin had exceeded fifty million — far more exaggerated than the Second Eruption in the original plot.
Shigure Kira released Shun from her arms and looked at the alien-like environment around her. Even now, she had not fully come back to her senses.
"I dreamed of a scorched earth, a new sprout breaking through the soil. It bloomed toward the rising sun, whispering to me, fireflies rushing into the flames…" Hearing Shigure Kira say this, Shun suddenly got goosebumps. He quickly covered her mouth to interrupt the casting.
For some reason, he kept feeling as if the Shigure Kira before him had turned into white hair… Unfortunately, an illusion was ultimately just an illusion. Shigure Kira could not actually ignite the Elysian Star Sea.
A pair of hands, like dawn in the darkness, tightly grasped Shigure Kira's slightly trembling right hand. Shigure Kira's heart jolted. She subconsciously raised her head, her gaze meeting Shun's. Shun looked at Shigure Kira and said softly, "At least we are still alive now, aren't we? Cheer up, Kira Star."
Shigure Kira looked at Shun, who was encouraging her, and the originally dim light in her eyes gradually recovered its former brightness.
A high-tech sniper rifle with blue and white coloring was transmitted into her hand via quantum transmission technology. She reached out toward Shun.
"Little Shun, let's go take revenge on the Second Herrscher together!"
Looking at the recovered Shigure Kira before him, Shun smiled helplessly and took her outstretched hand. Perfect. No matter what, he had to find Sirin. Since Shigure Kira had officially extended the invitation to him, he naturally had to seize this opportunity.
"How did this happen?" Sirin sat in the library of Babylon Tower. Earlier, she had seen that the purpose of those test subjects' existence was to help Schicksal's Valkyries develop something called artificial Stigmata. In a fit of anger, she had thrown a large rock at Schicksal's position.
But obviously, Sirin had never studied astronomy, mechanics, or physics. She did not know that the fall of a five-hundred-meter meteorite would cause such an impact.
She did not know that a falling meteorite would explode. She naively thought that throwing a meteorite was just like throwing a stone — it would just smash a few-hundred-meter crater into the ground and that would be it.
But what happened next? An entire medium-sized country disappeared from the map. The dust raised by the meteorite impact and the volcanic ash from subsequent eruptions would prevent Earth from seeing the sun for decades to come.
"I originally only wanted to teach Schicksal a lesson…"
For the first time, Sirin felt fear toward the power in her hands. If she wanted to, destroying humanity seemed like something she could do easily.