Chapter 1156 – #276_Overture(4)
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When the first video of telekinesis through magic was released, the world was swept up in a frenzy of joy.
Among them, the most fervent reactions came from various online communities.
Humanity still remembered last year’s sinking of the 7th Fleet and the flooding incidents. It was an event that had completely uprooted the firm belief that they were the top predators on Earth.
No matter how much the witches were idolized and romanticized through the media, it was an unforgettable wound.
So, when they realized that science and technology had pioneered an unknown technology… the reaction was on a scale that dwarfed the superconductor issue that had once burned so brightly.
-Are we Protoss?
-God exists and he runs a company in America.
-Witches down! Hexen down! Public enemy out!!
-So, are humans going to use witches as onaholes now?
-There’s a reason why the US is the US. They succeeded in less than a year.
This enthusiastic support was immediately reflected in the stock market.
The company that owned the Lexion Research Institute was ‘MIRACLE-Y’, founded by an entrepreneur who was suspiciously fond of social media.
After being listed, ‘MIRACLE-Y’s stock price, which had been steadily plummeting to the bottom, showed an unprecedented surge. It was a terrifying surge that even felt like madness.
The entrepreneur, unable to hide his attention-seeking nature, left a line on his social media.
[BUY MIRACLE-Y]
This businessman owned 27% of the total shares, so he comfortably reclaimed the title of the world’s richest man in just three hours.
Amidst this festive atmosphere, another video was released.
It was actually a far-fetched video that was hard to believe seriously.
-?????????
-So… in another timeline, humans used witches as public onaholes, and the witch leader was so scared that she ran away to this timeline?
-Do you believe that?
-The Pink Peacock and the Black Knight were also in the video. So, isn’t it possible that it wasn’t just manipulated by Hexennacht?
-It’s possible, isn’t it? The witch who sank the strongest fleet is so flustered?
-If anyone asks about the future of humanity, let them look up at the Saint X Party.
-Science hype overdose.
-Everyone, come to the Singularity is Coming Gallery.
-The apprentice witches are so pitiful.
-Why are the witch-champs pitiful? They just look so hot.
At first, everyone thought it was half a happening.
There were many suspicious aspects, and the festive atmosphere was already chaotic.
The recent half-year of listlessness and the fear that was close to cosmic horror could be washed away with ‘Wow, humans are amazing!’, so the details didn’t matter much.
The eccentric businessman tagged the video on his social media and finally opened his mouth to disaster.
[Did I do that?]
MIRACLE-Y’s stock price rose a little faster.
-Hey, aren’t we screwed?
A question began to circulate online, which had been in a festive mood.
-Let’s say that humans conquered witches in another timeline. But what about now? The technology to float a small cube with such a big machine was all they had.
-Realistically, does current humanity have a way to deal with witches? Against a witch who can destroy an aircraft carrier group alone?
-If humans develop technology, they might be able to conquer witches or whatever, like in that video.
-Think about it.
-Imagine you’re a witch.
-Would you leave humans alone now?
It wasn’t just one person who said it.
When such a happening occurs, discourses that warn of a sense of crisis are easily formed everywhere.
However, on the internet, which was intoxicated with victory, these concerns were dismissed as ‘fuss’.
-What are you talking about, you scaredy-cats?
-There’s always someone who ruins the mood like that.
-Gehenna is on the side of humans, so what does it matter? Hexennacht is going to get their asses kicked by Gehenna anyway.
-No, that Gehenna is also a witch, you idiots.
-If you think about it the other way around, it’s just a cube that the witches floated. Would they feel a sense of crisis with just that?
-Believe in Tiferet, my lord~
-That’s right, the Pink Peacock is also in the video. Didn’t they already know? Nothing has happened so far, right?
This optimism was, in a way, the result of the ‘witch idolization’ that various media had fostered.
Gehenna was on the side of good, a world cool-beauty hero group that helped humans.
This consciousness was already ingrained in the subconscious.
MIRACLE-Y’s high-flying stock price had slowed down, but it was still trending upwards.
But this optimism didn’t last long.
And it was proven that it wasn’t a fuss either.
Hexennacht moved.
It started in Mexico City.
Unlike the image of Central and South America, a group of unusual witches appeared in the middle of the skyscrapers of a well-maintained metropolis.
A white tree shape on a black background.
The Cliphoth strike force, wearing cloaks with the symbol of the Cliphoth, killed and took civilians hostage indiscriminately and headed towards the ‘Palacio Nacional’, the central government building of Mexico.
As the capital, Mexico City had all the headquarters of the army, navy, and air force.
Also, due to the series of incidents that had occurred recently, the security had been strengthened, and the military power of the resident military police was not to be taken lightly.
To stop the five witches who were intentionally moving in a straight line towards the government building, martial law was declared in the city, and armored vehicles formed a line of defense.
However, the strike force, consisting of just one 20th-tier witch and four others, neutralized all resistance more easily than drinking lukewarm water.
The live-streamed video was filled with the screams of soldiers, explosions, destruction, flames, and the ruthlessness of an enraged transcendent.
There was no time to be tactful.
Realizing that they could not stop them with their own power, the government sent out a distress call to nearby location points as if screaming.
But not a single location point branch responded.
No righteous witch appeared to stop the strike force.
The strike force neutralized the meager resistance and captured high-ranking officials who were trying to escape to bunkers or foreign countries and put them in front of the cameras.
About half of them met a horrible death that could not be described, and the remaining half begged for their lives with faces covered in tears and snot.
“Until now, humans have enjoyed freedom and indulgence without any cost.”
“But that ends today.”
“Pledge your allegiance and bow your heads. Otherwise, your tomorrow will be filled with nothing but despair.”
In just half a day, the largest country in Central America was reduced to a puppet state of the witches.
This was just the beginning.
Similar things happened in various parts of the Second World, which had been known as the playground of the public enemy.
A group of witches directly crushed the national defense of the country and overthrew the government.
This was a show of force that said, ‘What can you do?’ and at the same time, a declaration that said, ‘You’re screwed.’
Russia, which had once divided the world with the United States, was no exception.
However, in the case of Russia, there was a slightly special event involved.
“I’m going to make the bald dictator into squid jerky within 24 hours. Let the hide-and-seek begin.”
Orselia Limos, the ‘Witch of Proverbs’, better known as the Old Witch, stepped forward herself.
This suggested that Hexennacht, which had been fragmented, had united under the banner of ‘Let’s conquer the humans’ as a result of this incident.
Orselia intentionally gave them enough time and broadcasted it live as if to show off.
The Russian dictator had already confirmed the power of the witches through various reports.
He was convinced that ordinary military power could not stop the transcendent beings and made a bold decision.
He launched the worst weapon that human intelligence had created.
Of course, even a crazy dictator would not have committed such an outrage unilaterally without any warning.
This was done with a certain degree of tacit agreement from humanity.
The great powers were learning from their own history that the weak, who had no ability to resist, were terribly oppressed by the strong.
They understood that even if they had to make a humiliating surrender declaration later, they had to give them ‘one blow’ to even pretend to negotiate.
The insane idea of firing a nuclear weapon on their own territory was a trump card that was possible because Orselia had revealed her presence in the middle of a rough terrain.
The most powerful 1Mt-class of current nuclear weapons was detonated above Orselia’s head.
A shockwave that devastated a radius of several kilometers, a fireball that evaporated everything it touched, and radiant heat of 2,000 degrees Celsius that threatened life even with indirect exposure.
The power of 1 million tons of TNT was poured out on just one individual.
Even when the giant mushroom cloud, created by the oxygen in the epicenter being completely burned and sucked up, was broadcast by a broadcasting drone, all of humanity thought.
That no matter how transcendent they were, they could never survive under such power.
However.
The mushroom cloud was dyed a deep purple.
With the sound of something being devoured greedily, the mushroom cloud, which was ‘eaten’ from the edges, disappeared cleanly in less than 30 seconds.
As if it had never been there in the first place.
“8 hours left.”
Orselia’s neat appearance, which had been briefly disconnected, was broadcast live again.
“Found you. Oh, there are many others too?”
As promised, Orselia found the dictator and his loyal ministers hiding deep inside a nuclear bunker 8 hours later.
She hummed a tune amidst the screams and made thin slices of human jerky to eat as snacks.
48 hours had passed up to this point.
Still, no location point branch had moved.
