CH461 Thera’s Perspective

As Ben laid out the simple plan in detail, it couldn’t help but excite Thera. She was the star of it and it would be an act of pushing herself in a way she normally couldn’t. It couldn’t help but bring stars to her eyes as she anticipated challenging herself as an earth mage.

“Or we could do something that wouldn’t end with all of us being collateral damage,” Verbum begged at the end, being shot down by Ben.

“If you have a better idea then I’m all ears. For now though, this is the quickest and easiest way of dealing with them while avoiding a fight. At least, so long as you think you can handle it, Thera?”

“Absolutely. Just you watch.”

She ignored further grumbling as she touched the ground, stretching out her senses as far as they would go and burning her mana without care to reach out her empathy and empower her earth sense with her magic, digging deeper and deeper than she ever had in the past in the hopes of finding whatever hid beneath the world.

At first, she couldn’t help but wonder if Ben had made some sort of mistake. She kept reaching out but felt nothing unexpected. The land was dense and the most her empathy was picking up was a few stray bugs. The world seemed solid enough that she couldn’t imagine how much farther down she would have to push to come across anything until she finally found it. A void in the earth filled with rage and barely suppressed violence.

She almost pulled back then and there as the feeling clashed against her, the sudden feeling hitting her like a rock but she refused to pull away, holding onto the location as she probed it with her mana.

I can’t believe there’s so much space all the way down there. How did they even find that?

The area was huge, a cavern big enough that any of the world’s subterranean races would have been comfortable in it hundreds of meters below ground, filled to the brim with demons. Its sheer depth made her question if she really would be able to do anything about it, doubt creeping into her mind at the same time her empathy picked up on something else. A feeling amongst the horde down below. A feeling of being noticed.

Something had detected her sensing them, bringing a shiver up her spine as the question of if she could do anything ceased to matter. She had to before the beasts below could act if they knew they were being watched. She needed to bring the world down around them.

She handed her staff off to Ben, not needing it for the time no matter how much help it would be. With how much mana she was planning on spending, there was no doubt in her mind that it would break despite the quality of it.

Instead she knelt down, placed her hands on the ground and pushed.

Mana rushed out of her in a torrent and flooded the earth around her, enough that both Ben and Verbum could feel it as they stuck close by while she tried to exert her force on the whole of the land, bending the environment to her will as she used more of her power at once than she ever had before, making the land quake under her unending pressure while thousands of mana were spent each second as minutes ticked by.

Aside from her father, by that point she had to be the most powerful earth magic user on the planet and in that moment she felt like it. Her high level of skill combined with her unnaturally large mana supply to warp the landscape around her as she saw fit, the very land sinking and compressing down, crushing the world around them and anything unfortunate enough to be below it, the demons hidden away not standing a chance, becoming nothing more than experience for her job to take advantage of.

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Trees were coming down around them and Thera did her best to make sure they’d all fall away from where they were while also trying to keep the small bit of land where she and the others stood as still as it could be while the rest of it trembled.

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