chapter 76: Turned to Dust

It had been several days since Realm King Verik had made the difficult decision to finally attack the fairies lurking above his realm to extract their enormous powers.

It's all for his kingdom and his people.

Every day he had been looking with deep sadness and fear as the people of his kingdom were dying every day either from lack of food and drinking water. His desperation at being unable to do anything but watch led him down the wrong path when he asked for help from people who weren't very trustworthy.

Verik's Empire, in the royal palace.

Inside the main hall, it was full of people, wizards, and mercenaries to be more precise.

Each and every one of them was the ones who came to the king's call to help him with what he planned to do with the fairies.

Here you could see different people who came from different parts of the nearby realms. Some guilds sent their powerful wizards to contribute to their king and also for the merit they had promised after it was all over.

Inside the great room, there was a huge round table that around it were people expressing their opinion while from time to time they pointed to a large map stretched out on the table.

Some looked old and wise, stroking their long beards from time to time, others were strong and energetic youngsters with smug smiles plastered on their faces. Others were veterans with blank looks on their faces, the countless scars adorning their bodies spoke volumes of how rich their experiences in life and death battles were.

The atmosphere was tense and serious, a suffocating aura filled the room as they discussed and shared their ideas and plans for the invasion that would take place in the next few days. So it had been day and night. Now they were adjusting small details and going over everything.

Incredibly the King of Verik with his letter and reputation along with the promise he made, managed to gather numerous people willing to help them.

The forces of the nearby kingdoms, both medium and large short, together with mercenaries and wizards from different guilds scattered around, plus, the army of Verik's own kingdom had a total of 900,000 people gathered in the kingdom.

The announcement of the king was something too sudden and unexpected therefore the nearby kingdoms did not have the time to plan and only sent small numbers of their army, but it should also be noted that there were still some skeptics who did not believe in the fairy tale. And they only sent their army out of curiosity. But there were also other kings who knew the King of Verik well and consider themselves his friend, therefore they did not hesitate for a second when they did their best to help.

The days it took to travel from one kingdom to another were not very helpful and in fact, small armies could still be found walking through the forest and mountains to reach Verik's neighboring kingdom as soon as possible.

It was nighttime and the heated discussion of details was still with the King of Verik at the helm sitting in his great chair listening and observing everything with utmost serenity.

Baam.

The king slapped the table with his palm and stood up to get everyone's attention. "So, according to with the information that we have been able to gather from the informants that we sent to explore the sky and together with the plan of our strategists who carefully studied the environment of that island, the plan that we have should not have flaws, it is not like that. " He asked, looking at him around the people in the room.

He was impatient and tired, they had been doing the same thing for days without being able to rest his body very well, therefore seeing how they were only arguing and sometimes fighting among themselves, he had no other choice but to interfere.

The prime minister next to him cleared his throat and said calmly.

"My king, I would advise not to be sure of that until we have discussed the details with great patience, since as we know and deduce about fairies is that they are very careful and intelligent. No plan is perfect and there are always minor flaws than with a single wrong move our forces would suffer defeat. Don't be impatient and just let us handle the situation, because after all the little details are the most important thing. "

The king looked at him for a few moments and after a sigh he sat back in his chair with his hands clasped while he closed his eyes.

The prime minister looked at his king and then looked at everyone in the room, strategists, soldiers, magicians, and mercenaries. In a deep voice I ask everyone. "First of all, let me ask you a few questions to see if anyone has the answer that this old man can't get to."

"How are fairies, or mystical beings as they were known until a few days ago."

"How many of them are on that island."

"What are its powers and its limits."

"Who are the ones that govern them."

"That they do their day to day up there."

"What are your cultures."

"They are bad or good."

"They are weak or strong."

"And above all and most importantly the question that has been bothering me for a while is." Here the old man paused and pointed his finger at the sky, in a solemn and deep voice he said. "Because his island that until recently we did not know anything is seen with the naked eye up in the sky."

"Before, nobody knew about its existence because its home was invisible to our eyes, but as they have already noticed for a few days that island is visible to everyone, it is so high in the sky that we can only see a point between the clouds."

"Thanks to the fact that it is now visible, it is because we were able to send explorers and obtain information from them, although not much, we were lucky enough to at least be able to witness the legendary island where they live.

"Most likely, the fairies are already aware of what we are going to do, so I suppose and assume that like us they too are preparing for a counterattack. However, as the days go by there has still been no movement for their Part of it, so it leads me to think that they are just waiting for us to make the first move and then they can fight back without restricting themselves with anything. "

"And I repeat it again if it is still not very clear to them, we do not have any knowledge of what they can do, but in return they also have no idea what we can do with our magic, therefore both sides are very attentive to the other's movements. "

"Perhaps you have not noticed it or perhaps the most experienced veterans have, but for those who still have doubts I can only say that our battle has already started for a long time, and to be more precise this battle began when their island was made visible to our eyes and decided to show themselves to the world. "

"We do not know about his magic, but from what we can say disagree with the ancient books is that his magic had something to do with making dreams come true. What does this tell us about his magic, is that we do not know anything and can only deduce and speak with theories of what we have. "

"But this should be clear to everyone by now assuming they have read the detailed information we provided on the first day of our meeting."

At the end of what the prime minister had to say, he looked at everyone waiting for someone to take the first step and raise their hand to give their opinion. However, when he waited while maintaining his stable and strong posture in front of everything, it happened that little by little everyone began to hear a dull buzz that came from the earth itself.

Each time he became stronger so they could not maintain their composure and began to speculate what happened.

"What's going on."

"They are attacking us."

"It is very early and sudden."

"Calm down and stay calm, everyone here is an experienced wizard so a little jolt shouldn't make you nervous." The prime minister along with the king raised their voices, but nothing they said was heard because the noise became louder and as the seconds passed that noise was approaching them.

One of the guards who were outside on patrol rushed in desperately with fear evident in his eyes and with a trembling voice and stuttering yell. "Everyone to the ground, the earth is lifting, a huge earthquake is coming."

The earthquake that Yuujiro caused soon reached the kingdom.

It was total chaos and destruction when the impact crashed into them.

The walls did not hold and gave way to destruction, the earth rose up taking huge pieces of large rocks from the subsoil. Thousands of lives were lost in that instant.

Under all the rocks there were thousands of lives lost, whether they were soldiers or wizard or civilians, only some were lucky enough to be left alive due to the massive destruction that affected thousands of square kilometers.

The soldiers still walking through the forest met the same fate when they were crushed under hundreds of thousands of tons of rocks and debris.

The surrounding kingdoms vanished from the earth, leaving only remnants of blood and mutilated bodies.

It was a few minutes and when everything had calmed down, something that nobody expected from heaven arrived.

A bolt of energy lit up the night and for a brief moment and for the second time that night, the sky turned to day, for a few seconds.

Boom

The enormous lightning bolt launched from the island of the fairies made contact with what was left of the destroyed kingdom thus ending what the destruction of Yuujiro could not do by turning everything into nothing but ashes leaving a large circular hole where the kingdom of Verik.

No one is saved, they all died turning to dust.

If before with the destruction caused there were still survivors, now there was nothing left but a bottomless hole of total darkness.