The third second after the interception forces were completely wiped out.

As the red meteor approached rapidly at hundreds of thousands times the speed of sound.

The earth's surface temperature has risen rapidly to millions of degrees Celsius.

In the face of this global high temperature, the atmosphere has been completely destroyed.

The surface of the sea.

It started to dry up a second ago.

The huge amount of water vapor was further decomposed by the high temperature before it even started to float.

Including the fish and sea monsters in the various super trenches, all of them ended up being wiped out.

This was even more true on land. In almost an instant, the pressure and impact brought by the rapidly approaching red meteor wiped out all the natural environments on land.

Trees, animals, insects, microorganisms...all suffered indiscriminate death under the ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure environment.

This is true even of the so-called tardigrades.

The gravity on the planet's surface suddenly became thousands of times stronger and the temperature was so high that it was enough to vaporize metal.

This makes human beings' modern cities and densely packed mountains as meaningless as children's sand castles in the face of a world-destroying tsunami.

Using modern technology, modern buildings made of steel and concrete are being vaporized. The towering mountains that have existed for hundreds of millions of years and overlook everything in the world are also being vaporized...

None of them could offer the slightest resistance to the current situation.

All the ordinary people affected were decomposed into atomic-level basic particles before they could even feel the pain.

…

The fourth second after the interception force was completely wiped out.

The red meteor is very close to the earth.

It is only a distance of more than 200,000 kilometers.

Although it still did not hit the ground directly.

But the average surface altitude is about one thousand meters lower than before.

In other words, the land and all the objects on it have been vaporized by one thousand meters.

The so-called modern civilization is completely powerless against this kind of force.

There has been no direct contact yet.

The entire modern civilization has almost been completely wiped out.

At this moment.

On the entire earth, only a very small number of national-level core underground shelters that are hidden very deeply have barely remained relatively intact.

It is also at this moment.

In the deepest part of the long-dried Atlantic seabed, in a trench that had begun to turn into sand, a figure appeared directly in mid-air as the space twisted slightly.

And that is none other than Mel Dylan who is hiding in the [Lost City].

at this time.

After sensing that something was wrong.

He also chose to show up.

Then, looking at the scarlet meteor that was getting closer and closer, with the halo of light it emitted covering the entire sky, his face became particularly grim.

Although he didn't understand what was going on, and he didn't understand why Charrad Coles would let this happen, he obviously had to take action...

Even though he didn't understand what was happening, and didn't see clearly that the red meteor was the burnt Sharrad Coles, he still instinctively made a basic judgment:

"We must not let that thing fall directly down..."

"If that happens, I'm afraid even the Lost City will be destroyed through the space barrier..."

The next moment.

As he made up his mind, his [superpower] began to activate.

Under his power.

Within four weeks, some wonderful changes suddenly occurred.

then.

In the sky, another crimson light gradually appeared, which came from another crimson meteor.

That is a replica created by an ability called [Time Silhouette].

As a guy who can manipulate time, Mel Dylan can manipulate time to cut and project things that exist in different time periods.

For example, as long as he wants, he can replicate the same attack into multiple states and then apply it to the target at the same time, which is equivalent to a continuous attack without time difference.

And now.

He was trying to project the state of the red meteor one second ago to the present, so that the two red meteors would collide violently and cancel out each other's destructive power.

But while projecting the replica, he immediately noticed something was wrong.

It's a bit too strenuous to project...

It is far more strenuous than launching hundreds of [Sublimation Stage] level attacks.

The backlash from his own [superpowers] made him instinctively want to vomit blood, and the vitality in his body was constantly being drained.

This means that what he wants to project through [Time Silhouette] far exceeds the upper limit of his ability in normal state, and he needs to spend more money to continue.

"…What the hell is this? It feels even harder than fully projecting a few [Awakeners in the Sublimation Stage]…"

He had no idea that the other party was actually Sharad Coles, and that he also had six [Awakeners in the Sublimation Stage] who had gained power by burning their vitality, namely Mel Dylan.

With a grit of his teeth, he burned away most of the vitality in his body!

The blood in his body could not stop seeping out of his body surface at a rapid speed, but in contrast, the red meteor, which originally looked like an illusion and not very realistic, immediately became much more solid and was no longer just a mere illusion!

After successfully manifesting, it rushes towards the target face to face!

At the moment of collision.

After a brief touch.

The replica projected by [Time Silhouette] was ultimately at a disadvantage because it failed to achieve 100% restoration. It completely shattered in a very short time and turned into light spots all over the sky that quickly dissipated.

but.

But it is enough.

After being forcibly blocked for a brief moment, the speed and energy contained in the red meteor inevitably experienced a cliff-like drop!

It has not yet entered the Earth's range, and is still in the surrounding space. It is like a bomb that has been detonated in advance, and it begins to release energy before it hits the surface...

In an instant.

The intense light and super-high temperature, which were many times stronger than before, directly transformed into a dark red fireball with a diameter of nearly 10,000 kilometers and a size almost as big as the moon around the earth! !

The scorching energy flow, like a solar storm, spreads indiscriminately in all directions! !

The first victim would naturally be the Earth, which is only a hundred thousand kilometers away.

At every moment, a red light curtain with the destructive power equivalent to countless trillion tons of nuclear weapons was covering it...

Looking at this scene.

Mel Dylan, whose vitality had reached its lowest point and whose body had become as dry as a mummy, did not stop at all.

He immediately chose to withdraw and return to the [Lost City].

Although the problem has not been completely solved.

But at least he released most of the destructive power contained in the target in advance.

to this end.

His actual lifespan was reduced by at least three thousand years.

Anyway, he tried his best...

As for the destruction of modern human civilization and the surface environment, there is nothing that can be done about it...

All we can do is wait until the fireball dissipates, and then find a way to carry out reconstruction.

Although things are a bit troublesome, if it takes a few hundred years, relying on the special technology of the Atlantis civilization, the surface ecological environment of the planet can be barely restored.

It cannot be said that it has recovered to its original state.

But it is indeed not too difficult to allow ordinary people to live a normal life.