The Fire and The Storm - The Nexus of Kellaran #2 novel Chapter 167

Part 24

They all worked as one, casting both portals of the Gate next to each other with almost no space between, then increasing their area until they reached the limit of their available power.

“About two hundred and seven billion square kilometers of Gate, with the calculation for maximum power.” Fire announced.

“I have the calculation for the distance component from the surface of the sun to the distance of the demons’ rock.” Talia volunteered. “It’s the same ratio for power over distance as Translocation, luckily enough. And we get… At that distance, over five million square kilometers of Gate portal at each end. Even if you disregard all the power that we’d spend to cast it, that amount of sun’s surface sunlight for even a second would be the most powerful spell ever cast. We only need nine hundred thousand square kilometers to completely cover the demon’s rock with the surface of the sun, so we’d have plenty to spare, even without using independent spells.”

“Like I said when I first spoke up, me or any of you could do it by ourselves, even with the limitations we’ve discovered.” Fire stated with satisfaction.

“All right, good to know.” Mark laughed. “You were right about that much at least, if not about being able to use the whole sun.

“Let’s go home, Hilia that is. Since it seems our beach there is now the official location for casual conversation between leaders, and it’s ours, it’ll give us a bit of an advantage while pressing our case for an immediate first strike.”

“Why fool around?” Six asked. “We’ll have to get a consensus, so I say we go directly to The Hall of The Just Alliance and call the Assembly to an emergency meeting. With luck we can have the entire war won and over with in an hour.”

Mark paused a moment, thought about it, consulted everyone else’s opinion, and nodded. “All right, let’s do it.” he decided, and Translocated them all to the Hall.

They appeared as a group in the center of the volume of the Hall, twenty-five meters in the air, but tilted from vertical and moving to the side at incredible speed. Before they could react, they all smashed into the domed ceiling of the Hall about a third of the way from the edge of the room, and with explosive force.

Their Shields held, but they gouged out a huge ragged crater from the three meter thickness of white marble and from the gray bedrock that lay beyond it.

Niziam, a chestnut unicorn goddess who was the custodian of the Hall on active duty, appeared in the air below and beside the devastation.

“You are alive and uninjured.” she noted with some amazement, then a severe irritation became apparent in her manner as they descended out of the crater.

“Do you mind?!” she complained as she Restored the damage, then she vanished.

“That was a seriously messed up Translocation.” Fire observed with a giggle.

“Yah, I hurried it, and it was a pretty complex jump. Sorry.” Mark told them, abashed and contrite. “At least I got the location, if not the orientation and the trajectory.”

“You got the trajectory of the world around the sun.” Povon mildly scolded him as they flew down to the center of the stage. “You forgot the trajectory of the Hall as the world turns about it’s axis.”

“Ah. Oops. Sorry about that. I can promise I won’t do it again.” he told her.

“Now I’m glad for all the hours we spent practicing Shields.” Val giggled as they alighted around the Truthstone.

“Anyway, let’s get to it.” Six eagerly encouraged.