You Can't Just Shoot a Hole Into the Surface of the Planet!

~ A Minute Before Sherene's Arrival ~

Above the clouds, Wildcat and Sebastian's battle was still on-going.

Numerous Weapons were around Wildcat, attacking Sebastian mercilessly. One of the weapons, a giant sword-like snake, slithered in the sky while its body filled with blades clashed against Sebastian's sword.

Sebastian blocked the sword with difficulty and flew away, only to see a huge ball of energy fleeing in his direction.

"Say hello to the Big Fucking Gun 9000, motherfucker!" Wildcat yelled, wielding the BFG-9000, he shot it as the green ball of energy headed straight towards Sebastian only him easily dodging it on how slow it was, however, even dodging the Argent energy ball, it is useless as the electric tendrils from the ball of argent energy instantly follows him at lightning speed and ready to evaporate him to dust.

"Dammit!"

Couldn't dodge in time, helpless, Sebastian could only take the attack head-on while using his mana as a barrier.

Unfortunately, his mana shield was unable to block the tendrils of argent energy completely. His left arm was badly burnt, forcing him to retreat again while gasping for air.

At this point, the stronger party in this battle was already evident.

On one side, Wildcat was standing indifferently with his spotless enchanted diamond armor. There was no trace of struggle or tension in his expression, and instead, he seemed like he was simply taking a stroll.

Sebastian, on the other hand, was filled with injuries through all his body. Burns and cuts filled his arms, and his once neat hair was completely messy.

"So fucking weak! Even a Call of Duty noob could easily do a 360 no scope at your ugly ass. Do you truly want to take us away then work for your country with this little strength?" Wildcat said with an arrogant expression, which pisses Sebastian more.

Sebastian grunted with a grave expression. Instead of answering, he took advantage of this moment to move his mana through his body in an attempt to recover even a little of his injuries.

"Do you even realize that potion has a limi-"

Before theButler could speak more, tens of weapons rain down on him ten times the speed of sound, but he easily evaded it and cut a few magical weapons in half with his sword before standing in front of Wildcat once again with an angered expression in his face.

"Moreover, do you know what you are doing!? Not only you are opposing the Vedarun Empire but you are also opposing both of the other great Two Superpowers like the Republic of Aetlrus and worst of all the Senadate Theocracy like this!"

"And what about it? Now I've become a demigod, they are just nothing more than tiny kingdoms. If they dare to hurt me and my friends, I don't mind wiping them off the map."

Hearing that arrogance, Sebastian's expression changed instantly.

"You... Do you know what are you saying!!? Even if you are now a demigod, you alone can't go against the three superpowers at once! Even if you defeat me, I'm not even one of the strongest of all the demigods among them! Not to mention, the number of demigods like you and me in both of the three nations is greater than you can ever imagine!"

"I don't give two shits, fucker!"

Wildcat did not even bother to insult this so-called Empire to him. In fact, possessing countless Weapon of Mass Destructions in one Treasury and becoming a Demigod, Wildcat could easily disdained the powerhouses of this world.

And in fact, he has a reason for his thoughts. He is aware that in terms of strength and speed, he is inferior to the other stronger Demigods. However, In terms of weapons and destructive power, Wildcat was much stronger than practically any Demigod in this world, he could practically bombard the whole continent with millions of Legendary, Divine, and World class weapons within the [Gates of Babylon] he has!

Seeing that Wildcat was ignoring his words, Sebastian sighed.

"Actually, the Emperor does not have bad intentions this time. He only wants to recruite you all! It doesn't matter if your beastmens, undead, or whatever race you are! You will all have riches, higher status, and anything you desire! Is there anything you want within the empire that has any lackings!?"

"Quite obvious, do you have any Wifi in your kingdom?"

"What's that?"

"Oh well, you said there isn't any, so we will deny your stupid offer. But regardless of your King's intentions, none of us want to live there, mate. None of us wants nothing to do anything with your country. All we want is FREEDOM and anything and anywhere we want in the world besides dealing with some politics, wearing cringe outfits or whatever you Imperial dogs do. My official answer is... no."

Sebastian's face was ugly. This beastmen was impossible to reason with!

Wildcat looked down from the clouds to the battle in the city and realized that it was already ending. He then withdrew the weapons around him and heaved a sigh.

"It looks like my friends managed to win the battle. Perfect. I guess I have to thank you for helping my friends level up a bit."

After saying that, he then summons one gate below him as a weapon ascended before him.

Ea, also known as the Sword of Rupture, is the most powerful of all mystical weapons called Noble Phantasms in the Fate universe.

Sebastian's face changed. After that sword appeared, the pressure magic energy around Wildcat was emitting increased frighteningly!

And the weapon, feeling the magic power within it frightens him the most. The magic power within it is equivalent or far more than the most strongest World-class items!

It was as though his Mortiferum Mundus was just child's work!

"Nighty night, bitch!

[GIF]

Together with his cry, Wildcat swung his sword down.

Sebastian's expression turned grave. Without hesitation, his entire mana pool was used to unleash his most strongest defensive move.

But at the next instant, the sword turned into a massive beam of energy that severed the sky into two. It then clashed against Sebastian's defenses, destroying them in an instant!

"Fuck...

...I am dead."

But when it seemed that Sebastian was going to die...

Clang!

Someone appeared at that moment.

Raising her greatsword, Samara managed to stop the attack!

However, Ea's attack was too powerful. In the instant the woman received the sword, she felt as though her entire body was inside a furnace.

With no other choice left, she uses her ultimate Trump card.

"[Castle Bravo]"

Not even a nanosecond has passed, an incredibly large glowing yellow sphere appeared above the city, illuminating the night into day.

However, that's only for protecting the surroundings outside the yellow sphere, secondly it's only just the beginning of it.

Inside the sphere, Samantha creates a hundred layers of magic barrier, each of them could withstand attacks equivalent to a super tier spell!

But to Samara's shock, it's not enough against Ea as the large beam of death continues breaking the barriers one by one until there are twelve left in a matter of seconds!

And as the red beam of energy continued to get close just a tens of meters from her, she felt the destructive energy radiation rushed towards her body, tearing her insides apart even though the beam didn't even reach ten meters from her!

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

No other choice left, she has to go all out.

"[Domain: Heart of Faith!]"

Instantly, a tremendous amount of her mana erupted from her body, and the golden sphere she created exploded, spreading the ability in all directions, reaching to the point that is about twice the size than Orazvil itself and glows brightly as if the sun has descended to the earth. With this skill, the attack from Ea suddenly came to a halt, as if the world was frozen in time, even though it was not.

Samara then simply waves her hand, and in the next instant, the huge pillar of red energy slowly dissipates until it completely vanishes without a trace, as if Wildcat didn't unleash the attack in the first place.

When Wildcat saw that, he is surprised someone manage to stop the most powerful weapon in the Fate franchise and decided to stop his actions before looked at the newcomer.

Seeing Wildcat's actions, Samara deactivates her power with a very tired expression like she was about to pass out soon, but she is still very strong to stand up, even facing an army of A-rank magical beasts, she could still kill them with ease even in her weakened state.

With a few pant and used a small fraction of her magic to heal herself instantly, she then looks up to see Wildcat with an enrage expression on her face.

"Mister Wildcat!! You can't just shoot a bloody hole into the surface of the planet!!!"

"You are... Samara, right? Does these Church of the Golden Dawn plan to take the Empire's side? If so, I don't mind killing you with that cocksucking dickhead!"

"Please wait, mister Wildcat! We are not your enemies." Samara shouted seriously then immediately lowered her sword.

Wildcat furrowed his brow and observed Samara carefully. Just like she said, Wildcat could not feel malice coming from her.

Although she saved Sebastian just now, Samara did not seem to have the intention of fighting Wildcat. In fact, despite being wary of not just Wildcat's strength which she could easily overwhelm him with, she is very wary of his weapons which one of them could easily destroy a hundred layers of her powerful barriers like it was nothing, Samara had lowered her weapon to show that she was not an enemy.

"Do speak then. Why did you stop me from killing that fucker?"

Saying it, Wildcat retracted his killing intent briefly.

"Are you sure you want to kill a Demigod from the Vedarun Empire? Once you do it, the Empire will treat you and your friends as mortal enemies. By then, they will not stop until the seven of you are dead."

Hearing it, Wildcat just sneered, "And what about it? Besides, this time they send a demigod against my friends and failed. Next time, they will probably send two, and next time after that three like those IRS assholes. If we are destined to be enemies anyway, it's better if I chip away as much of their strength as I can!"

Hearing his words, Samara sighs in his arrogance.

"Mister Wildcat. Do you even know that the S-rank enhanced potion doesn't make you an indefinite demigod?"

Hearing her words, Wildcat halted his words, in deep of his thoughts, she might be right.

"Oh... I'm an idiot."

"You better get down now because the potion will wear off in eight minutes."

"Wait, how long have I been a Demigod for?"

"7 minutes and 57 seconds."

"...Well fu-"

With a few flicks, the overwhelming magic energy around Wildcat instantly vanished like a light bulp just lost power.

His words caught off before he fell 50 km from the ground.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

Before Wildcat fall to his death, he instantly got caught by Samara who held him by the collar with just hand hand, her other hand is Sebastian who is heavily injured by the attack Wildcat made.

"😓"

"..."

"Are you going to kill me?"

"No. Her majesty has already thought about that. Why don't you return with your friends first? Her Majesty will tell you about her plans."

After saying to Wildcat, her gaze went to Sebastian.

"Mister Sebastian, you should return too."

"V-Very well."

Then her gaze returns to Wildcat who is still giving Sebastian the stink eye but immediately stops when Samara looks at him.

Wildcat gulped, "Alright then. I hope that the words of that nun girl are worth my time."

"It's her Majesty Sherene!"

"Okay! Okay! Don't need to shout in the middle of the Stratopause, girl."

Upon saying that, the three returned to the city.

But as they were about to, Samara thought about the weapon Wildcat just used.

'Weird. Why do I always get the feeling this isn't the first time I faced that same kind of weapon...?"

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~ Present Time ~

"Okay, now that everybody is here, can we talk?" Sherenesaid with a soft smile. Her face, however, froze as soon as she saw Sebastian's condition.

Although she knew that Sebastian was losing against Wildcat, she never thought that even the two went into the same level, the difference in power was so big.

Not only Sherene, but most of the others were also stunned when they saw the pitiful state of the Demigod.

Instantly, the way they looked at Wildcat changed completely. If Wildcat has reach demigod level will be very astonishing and scary, but the fact that he went to the same level as Sebastian, a famous Demigod but still managed to trash him so easily while remaining uninjured, was even more mindblowing. Such strength was definitively higher than most demigods!

While they were astonished, a small number thinks Wildcat should never reach Demigod. One of them is his friends.

"Miss Sherene, are you going to explain why you stopped our fight?"

Sherene looks at Moo before smiling apologetically, "Oh... Sorry. Where I was? Right, Mr. Barrus, I hope you can let Mr. Sebastian and the others go."

Moo frowned. He was not exactly happy with that suggestion.

Perhaps feeling Moo's dissatisfaction, Sherene smiled wryly and explained, "Mr. Barrus, you and I know that if you kill them here, you will turn yourself into a mortal enemy of the three superpowers. Furthermore, Mr. Julian and Miss Matilda will end embroiled in this mess too as the people that helped you. Are you sure that is what you want?"

Moo and his friends fell silent. Sherene's words were right. However...

"Even if we let them go now, they will just return again before long. From that perspective, killing them now is better. At least, there is a demigod less from them we need to worry about."

"Don't worry, I will help you with that." Sherene then turned towards Sebastian and spoke, "Mister Sebastian, I hope your nation stops making things difficult for these young gentlemans from now onwards."

"Your majesty, although I understand your intentions, I hope you stop interfering in our kingdom's affairs. Moreover, I follow my Emperor's orders. If the Emperor wants to recruit this group, I will do it even if it costs me my life."

Sherene stared at Sebastian briefly before chuckling. Then, her expression turned icy.

"It looks like you are misunderstanding something, Mr. Sebastian. I'm not asking for your opinion; I'm giving you a warning. If you or your Emperor insists on chasing after them after today, you will go against our Church and my kingdom too. Not just mine but it includes the Midnight Order. Are you sure that is what Emperor Augustus VI wants?"

Sebastian's face changed. Team 6, however, were not much better. They were looking at Sherene in bewilderment.

She then look at Zabrina and Sara with the same look. The two notice it and knew she ask the same thing.

Sherene had just stood in Team 6's side even when it meant going against the powerhouses!

Even Samara seemed slightly surprised. However, she just glanced at the High Priestess briefly before restoring his stoic expression.

"Your majesty, I hope you reconsider your words."

"There is nothing to reconsider, Mr. Sebastian. Mr. Barrus and his friends are people under the Church of the Golden Dawn and the Kingdom of Goldrose protection. Any act against them means going against us."

Matilda added, "It includes the Midnight Order too! They are the guest of our Foundation. If you decide to go against them, you will have to consider the response of our organization."

Sebastian, including Zabrina and Sara looked at the people around them and Sebastian narrowed his eyes. No matter how he looked at the situation, things were as bad as they could get.

On one side, he was badly injured and one of his two allies could barely use thirty percent of her strength.

As for the other side, they have a demigod in top condition. Plus the knights of the Golden Dawn and the beastmens of Midnight Order who were ready to attack at any moment.

Sebastian thought for a moment before closing his eyes and sighing. When he opened his eyes again, he looked at Team 6.

"Very well, we will take our leave then."

But at that moment, he saw Samar unsheathing her greatsword and releasing her aura against him!

Sebastian's face changed. Instantly, he stood in front of his two allies and stared at Samara warily.

Sherene spoke at that moment, "Sebastian, I think you should stay for a bit longer." She tilted her head and smiled gently.

Sebastian's expression turned ugly, "Your majesty, what is the meaning of this?"

"Nothing much. Just, don't you think you should return the favor after we saved your life? It was Samara's intervention that stopped Mister Wildcat from taking your life."

"What do you want?"

"Well, you can see the situation of the city, right?" Sherene pointed to the magic circle around the city and the ashes and smoke floating in the air. "The thing is, we need a bit of help. Can you give us a hand?"

Sebastian was cursing inwardly. However, he knew he did not have the right to refuse in the current situation.

Even although Sherene would probably not kill him even if he refuses, she could use the fact that he attacked the group as an excuse to keep him imprisoned for a long while and give a blow to the Empire's reputation.

Thus, after he heaved his third sigh since he started this conversation, Sebastian agreed.

"...Very well."

"Great!" Sherene claps her hands with a warm smile on her face, "Then, I think it's better if we hurry up. We don't have much time left." She turned around and was about to leave alongside Samara, but before that…

"Oh any one more thing, Mr. Sebastian. Next time, don't you dare step into my lands without my permission. You do know the consequences, right?" She said, more colder than she looks that even bothers Sebastian. "Even the Great Veldarun Empire has a few dozens of demigods, do any of them could rival the members of the Leviatine family like Damara, one of the ten most powerful demigods in the Continent? If you do that stunt again, war will break out between our two counties, or worse... things will get a bit more political."

By her words, Sebastian gets shivered on his skin and nodded in understatement.

"I will do as you say."

"Good! 😊"

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[Heart of Faith] - A Domain that is capable of spreading a massively powerful area of effects across an entire world to control any attacks that tries to inflict the user only to be stopped, countered, or be freely manipulated by the user itself directly or indirectly thanks to their domain. It can also stop Super Tier Magic, and Reality Bending abilities such as Time & Space Manipulation, Reality Slash and even world-ending attacks such as the power of EA, the Sword of Rupture.