Chapter 431: The Interceptor
Northern stood and watched the disaster from the top of his mother's chamber, his expression carrying a mood of intense anger.
He expected that she was going to do this, but that was before things had progressed to this level.
Besides, standing here and watching as people perished with screams and cries in the flood made everything seem wrong.
All that the young girl had done was nothing short of devilish, carnal, and evil. These people didn't deserve so much cruelty.
He boiled with searing hot anger as he watched. Probably if the people were watching this, they'd also feel so much hate for themselves.
It was understandable that they would do anything to go back home, but a disaster of this level is morally unfair and unacceptable by common sense.
Northern washed down his face with his hand. Currently, the palace was trying to evacuate as many people as they could into the main palace building.
Northern had no idea why the main building, which sat like a pyramid, was their choice, but he guessed that these people had some kind of plan in motion.
After all, the evacuation was being handled by the Tower Sage himself.
However, he hadn't heard anything from the Emperor.
'Jeci had said that he was in solitary training; perhaps he won't come out,' Northern thought subtly as he scanned the surroundings with a calm gaze.
Afar, the nobles and soldiers were still fighting to hold the water, but it was only a matter of time before their barriers came crashing down.
Northern sighed. "Looks like I have no choice."
He was about to leap off the roof when he looked down. Someone was running towards him. He narrowed his eyes. "Jeci?"
She maneuvered her way to the top of the building, jumping almost like a monkey, even with a spear in one of her hands.
She landed on the slanted rooftop and bowed to Northern before standing up and glaring into his eyes.
"Why did you have to do that?"
Northern smiled a little, hoping to surpass her anger with his pretty smile, and then he said, "I'm sorry, Jeci. I just wanted to see my mother, I guess."
Jeci glared more, but with such honest words from Northern, she couldn't stay angry for long.
She let out an exasperated sigh and turned in the direction of the flood, her face folding with heavy concern.
"What in the world is suddenly happening?"
A realization suddenly struck Northern, causing his brows to crease.
"Jeci, did Raven see you leave?"
Jeci had a puzzled expression on her face due to the question. She lingered curiously before answering Northern.
"The black-haired girl with red devilish eyes? Yes, she did."
Northern's frown became more grim. He bowed his head and clenched his fist tightly, his tone groaning with an intense mixture of pain and anger as he mumbled her name strongly.
Jeci could feel the air become hot and heavy. She instinctively took some subtle steps backward because she didn't want to suffocate under the air.
Northern breathed out, calming himself. His expression became deadpan as he said to her,
"Make sure you are safe, Jeci. I'll go and put an end to this."
Without waiting for her response, Northern flew off the building, softly landing on top of the next and continued to jump from building to building until he got to one of the buildings that stood high around where the nobles had gathered, fighting the flood.
Northern observed the wall of flood with narrowed eyes, wondering, 'It's so massive and powerful. How is an item like that even existent?'
It was impossible to think that such a tiny and small item held such destructive force of water. How did it even make any sense?
Northern shook his head either way and looked at the fighting sea fiercely, Chaos Eyes revealing themselves.
The moment he could see with Chaos Eyes, his spatial awareness spread all over the entire empire.
In that shocking moment, Northern felt an overwhelming pressure and fear at a particular point. He quickly retrieved his awareness from the place and folded back, almost stumbling. It felt like he had looked into something he wasn't supposed to look into. 'What in the world was that?'
Having no idea left him completely open and utterly uncomfortable. But he had better things to do right now than cower in fear of the unknown.
Northern stood up, closed his eyes, held his hands out into the air, and spread them.
"Who is that crazy dude?" someone from below muttered as they saw what Northern was doing.
"Are you even seriously focusing on that right now? We are going to lose our families if we don't finish evacuating before Father and the rest of the nobles and knights crumble under the power of the flood, and you're here looking at someone."
"Dude, just run along. You just wasted more time talking than I did," the other responded and ran into the next building.
Unseen by anyone, pitch-black whirlpools began to appear in the depths of the water.
And from the depth of the water, a strong force began to suck in the flood.
At once, the nobles noticed the reduction in the force of the water and quickly looked at each
other.
When they all came out to fight, their intention was only to hold long enough until most of their families had been evacuated.
"Looks like the Stellar Array has not abandoned us."
They said one to another and began to push back with the barrier. The realization that they just might survive fueled their muscles with strength and their souls with essence.
Northern watched as they all fought back with amazing strength.
A second later, he moved his gaze to the water that was slowly beginning to reduce, pouring into the Limitless Void.
He had opened up a path to the mountains in the Limitless Void and created several gateways, but instead of creating them as normal rifts in space, he used his small authority over the Void to formulate a pulling force.
The nature of the water's depth also made it easy, along with his familiarity with ligatures
and Chaos constructs.
All in all, everything he had learned by experience came to play out usefully in saving the
Luinngard Empire.
Northern smiled, pleased as the water began to reduce considerably.
Suddenly, he swung his face to the side. Before he could register anything coming, he was
struck.
Northern felt all the muscles in his body tear apart, but they were forcibly held together by the Void in him and Chaos Thread.
He helplessly flew away from the hammer-like attack without even seeing his attacker yet.