Academy, Rio's Room.
[Is there really any purpose in staring at the sun like that?]
'It makes you feel 'cool' though... I just do it for the sake of it sotis...'
Standing near his room's window, Rio was sipping tea in a leisurely manner while watching the sun rise with the sa expressionless look on his face.
[I don't get you... You sotis behave like an old man; how about going to so clubs and partying and stuff?]
'Going to clubs won't change anything; I will still look as dead as I was looking before... I might even ruin the fun for others...'
[But I heard that going to clubs increases your chances of a girl flirting with you!]
Rio sighed at those words and shook his head.
'Do I even need any other girl to flirt with ... I already have one that has a lot of interesting reactions when you tease her... Oh, but you aren't allowed to tease her though...'
[Yeah, yeah, I know, You and your Ms. Golden Tsundere... It's like she's the sole star shining in the pitch black and empty night sky that is you...]
While Rio was arguing with Shadow in his mind, he noticed a strange sensation in the air all of a sudden.
'Hmm... The sky in the distance... seems kind of more redder than before?...'
Before Rio could react, the entire sky went dark red, and a rain of blood started to pour from the sky.
Even Rio was shocked after seeing such a scene.
'Tears of the world!? What the!? Why is this phenonon happening now!?'
'Tears of the World' is a phenonon in which the world itself rains blood from through the space-ti fabric to show that it's deeply saddened or hurt by sothing.
In the novel, this phenonon only appeared once, and that was when Link was killed off by Fade.
As Link is the chosen of the world, his death made the world itself quite sad, and the world bled in the form of the rain of blood.
This kind of rain doesn't have much effect even if you touch it and is completely harmless to even ordinary people, but its main effect is the impact it leaves on the mind of those who see
it.
Rio quickly put away the tea, grabbed his coat and space ring from the couch, and quickly put them on.
'Sothing's not right; this isn't supposed to be happening at all!'
Link is completely fine now, and there's nothing that should have triggered this phenonon, as Rio already interfered with a lot of things and many things have changed.
At that mont, Rio could feel that the rain of blood bore no good for him, it definitely will bring so harm.
His intuitions imdiately started to warn him that sothing's definitely not right; thus, Rio imdiately got combat ready as he took his equipnt.
[Ding! Strings of destiny have been tempered!]
[Ding! The Spire of Ascension has gazed upon your existence and has tried to draw you inside!]
[Ding! True Immunity triggered! ERROR.... ERROR!!]
[Warning! 'A??m???' has taken effect! Your skill 'True Immunity' has been forcefully suppressed!]
[The Gaze of the Spire of Ascension has taken effect!]
Before Rio had the ti to even react, a massive dark red portal appeared below his feet, and he felt inside the portal.
Even when he tried to use his skills to jump out of the portal and stop himself from falling, Rio was still forcefully dragged into it as the space-ti fabric itself was pushing him into it.
This is the first ti he has ever seen his 'True Immunity' not work; at that mont, Rio had realized that he had gotten himself in so big trouble this ti.
Capital City Astra, In the sky above.
"It forcefully teleported us away!?"
A look of shock appeared on Raji's face.
Just now, all the SS-rankers from all over the world had gathered in the sa place at once, as they had all noticed a massive source of disturbance in the space-ti fabric.
All SS-rankers do this kind of thing when they sense that soone powerful is trying to ss with the planet and they deal with such threats together.
Right now, there's only this one planet that's so suitable to live on, and most people live on this planet, and if soone does sothing to it, it will take a lot of efforts to terraform a new planet from scratch.
The SS-rankers will have to work like crazy to solve such a crisis, and as of yet they haven't yet succeeded in venturing into outer space and finding new habitable planets, so it's important to protect this planet.
All of them gathered in one place today to stop Alverto, but to their shock, all of them were forcefully teleported away by that tower-like thing after that strange eye appeared on it.
Just when Ashtel was about to open a portal to go there once again, suddenly a massive dark red portal appeared below his and Jin's feet.
The two of them couldn't even react on ti, and they were dragged inside the portals without having any chance to resist!
And just like it happened with Rio, the portal closed once the two of them were teleported
away by force.
Only Raji was left standing in the sky with a bewildered look on her face.
"Uh, W-what's happening today!?"
She had no idea what just happened and why she was left behind and not teleported. 'T-those portals were so powerful that they dragged even Ashtel into them!? This is insane...' Today, Raji has been shocked too much, and she's going numb by it all over.
Not only that shocking mysterious tower appeared out of nowhere, but now for the first ti sothing in the world has appeared that rendered even Ashtel Rex helpless.
Even he was not able to resist its power!
Just when Raji was feeling more and more confused, she noticed that so of the familiar presences had suddenly disappeared from the academy.
Rio, Lia, and the rest of the team, Astra, all disappeared, and their presence vanished all of a
sudden.
'Did the portals swallow them too!? But why only them!?'
Raji had no idea why only a few selected individuals were teleported; she scanned the entire capital city with her mana detection, and there was not a single other person who had
disappeared out of nowhere.
Only the mbers of Team Astra had disappeared.
'Wait! There one more... this presence, Riko!?'
Riko's presence has also disappeared; up until a few monts ago, Raji could detect her, but
now she's gone all of a sudden.
'I must figure out sothing; Riya has also disappeared...'
She's not worried about the safety of others as much, but Riya is the only one who's the weakest out of them all, and if she encounters so trouble, she will not be able to survive.
Thus, Raji was worried about her safety a lot.
Just when Raji was trying to think what to do about this situation, her phone started to ring
like crazy.
She hurriedly brought it out to see who it was, and it turned out it was a call from a military
general.
"Ms. Raji! The other SS-rankers are not picking up their phone; thankfully you picked it up!"
"I have grave news to tell you! A massive demon army has attacked the southern coastline of the nation! There are hundreds of S-rankers among them!"
"We require imdiate assistance!"
Raji's eyes widened in shock when she heard those words,
"What!? Where did so many demons suddenly co from!? Why didn't the alliance warn us that so many demons were heading in our direction!?"
It is nearly impossible to reach their nation's border in plain sight so easily; their high-tech detection equipnt can even keep eyes on S-rankers in case they suddenly appear nearby. There's simply no way so many demons entered the border of the human empire without noticing, and all this happened at such a convenient ti, just when Ashtel and Jin had
disappeared.
It's too much of a coincidence that it seems like a well-planned conspiracy!
Raji imdiately contacted the World Alliance, and what she found out was even more
shocking.
It turned out once the SS-rankers were teleported away by that mysterious building, all of their nations were attacked by demons all at once!
Now, they are all occupied with combating the demon attacks and have no ti to worry
about others.
"What are the demons trying to do!? This is but a complete all-out war! They are literally attacking the entire world at once!"
Nobody had any idea why the demon armies suddenly launched such massive-scale wars and
attacked every nation that they could!
Moreover, people only noticed the demons when they had already entered their nation's
borders! Which is simply too bizarre!
'Don't tell that the force that forcefully teleported us sent these demons to keep us busy
so that we won't be able to interfere with it!?'
Raji gritted her teeth and opened a portal to go to the southern coastline of the nation.
Now that Ashtel and Jin are not present, the responsibility to keep the nation safe has fallen
on her shoulders; she can't dodge this responsibility.
Thus, she had no choice but to go and help out in defending the borders and keeping the
demons at bay.
If they make it to the cities, thousands of innocent people will die, and Raji will be responsible for their deaths.
When Ashtel cos back, he will bla her for negligence, so she dared not delay. 'Link, I will leave the safety of my sister to you once again; please keep her safe...'
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