Deviant: No Longer Human

The energy grew more turbulent, demanding an even stronger magnetic field.

Soon, all metal objects in the vicinity began to levitate, trembling in the air as they were drawn toward the epicenter of his power.

!?

At that critical moment, Maliketh\'s eyes narrowed, detecting an incoming ray of light from the distance.

Whooooosh!

In an instant, the light collided with him.

Boooooom!

Maliketh\'s face twisted in disgust before morphing into a wicked smile as his body was crashed back into the debris.

Bam!

Some distance away, a woman now stood, her face etched with slight horror.

"Interesting, you are..." Maliketh eyes glew with obsidian, as he dusted off his hands nonchalantly, as if the attack had barely affected him.

Luna stood beside Wang Xiao, who had managed to regain his footing and was now warily observing Maliketh.

Maliketh\'s attention shifted to Luna, who appeared momentarily frozen by the encounter.

"...No... It can\'t be..." Luna\'s voice trembled with disbelief, which only deepened Wang Xiao\'s confusion.

He was standing right behind her when he noticed her right hand beginning to disintegrate into thin air.

"!"

He gasped, taken aback by the sight, but Maliketh wasted no time in pressing his advantage.

"Your light energy is useless against me," Maliketh declared coldly, watching Luna\'s distress with a dismissive sneer.

!!

Luna\'s shock quickly gave way to fury as she spun to face him, her eyes blazing.

"Who are you? Where is the real guardian of the North!?" she demanded, her voice echoing across the chaotic scene.

"Hahahaha! I am the guardian of the North!" Maliketh\'s laughter was dark and chilling.

Whoosh!

He casually formed a small sphere of swirling antimatter in his hand, the air around it crackling with purple lightning, and tossed it toward Luna with a flick of his wrist.

Tremble....

Luna felt a cold chill wash over her as she saw the oncoming ball of energy, which seemed like the arch-nemesis of her very existence.

Whoosh!

In response, light from the surrounding area converged in front of her, swiftly forming a barrier made up of densely packed photons.

Yet, despite the unbreakable defense, she instinctively stepped back.

Boom!

When the antimatter collided with her photon shield, it began to devour the light, the shield fizzling and popping as it was being neutralized.

The terrifying interaction between light and antimatter hissed and spat... a dangerous dance of opposing forces.

Whoosh!

"Ahhhh...." Luna\'s scream pierced the air as the photon shield was suddenly penetrated by a barrage of antimatter particles.

She stood frozen, horror-stricken, as thousands of shards of antimatter tore through the barrier, striking her body like a swarm of venomous needles.

The first few shards arced above her, mercilessly piercing her right shoulder and making her wince in sudden pain.

"Argh!"

Another shard savagely tore into her left shoulder as her eyes widened, filled with a raw terror at the relentless torrent of razor-sharp fragments hurtling toward her with the ferocity of a soundwave.

Thud!

"Ugh..."

As the shards burrowed deep into her flesh, she couldn\'t suppress the flow of blood, now gleaming silver in the dim light, dripping from the corner of her lips.

Yet, her pain morphed into a bright smile in response to Maliketh\'s mocking sneer, before —

"!"

"What!?"

Stunned and bewildered, Luna recoiled. She desperately tried to heal herself, but, to her despair, found the effort utterly futile.

"Ahhh..."

The particles began their cruel feast on her flesh, methodically devouring her very existence.

Boooooooooom!

In the chaos, Maliketh\'s voice echoed through the destruction, his parting words chilling to the bone. "Farewell, humans."

Suddenly, gamma rays burst forth from where he stood, blazing like a miniature sun erupting in the night.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!

The explosion that followed was deafening, shaking the entire capital of Sylvia.

Tremble...

Fra Island was consumed in a catastrophic sea of destruction.

Boooooom!

High above, a colossal mushroom cloud formed, visible from hundreds of kilometers away.

As the shockwave expanded, it triggered an earthquake throughout the capital, shattering every window in its path with it\'s force.

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King\'s Mansion!

Whooooosh!

The mansion shuddered as the shockwave slammed into it.

Boom!

Inside Seraphina\'s room, Josephine, clad in a flowing, silken nightgown, jerked around, her face a mask of surprise and horror as she peered through the web of cracks spreading across the window.

"!"

The ghost of the last attack haunted her, triggering a wave of PTSD that left her momentarily paralyzed with fear.

Forgetting their earlier argument, she whispered, her voice trembling, "Mom... Did you hear... that?"

"Huh?"

Equally stunned, Seraphina, dressed in a plush velvet robe that brushed the floor with each step, moved towards the balcony for a clearer view, Josephine trailing behind, her fear growing.

Hiss!

The sight that met them was both awe-inspiring and terrifying sending thier feets cold, a chilling feeling shared by the millions of residents across Sylvergard.

The nuclear alarm wailed, casting the capital into instant chaos.

Meanwhile, in a weakly lit room elsewhere in King\'s Mansion, a woman with long, cascading hair lay resting.

She was enveloped in darkness until the shockwave stirred her from slumber.

"!"

Her eyes flickered open, catching the faint, ominous glow filtering through the window.

"..."

With robotic precision, she rose from her bed, her graceful movements contrasting the urgency of the moment.

She approached the window just in time to see the ominous mushroom cloud swelling against the sky.

Crash!

In the next instant, the window shattered, sending shards flying as Eveline propelled herself towards the epicenter of the explosion.

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"Haha...."

High above the sky, far beyond the thunderous mushroom cloud, Maliketh cackled in laughter as he surveyed the chaos he had wrought.

"!?"

Yet, his sinister smile froze abruptly when he spotted a small, shimmering patch beneath the debris, a place pulsating with an unusual intensity of photons.

"They survived... Huh?"

Though his words carried a note of disappointment, yet his expression twisted into a grin, ready to swoop down and finish what he had started.

But suddenly, he stiffened, an unusual omnious sensation crawling up his skin.

"!"

Crackle....

Crackle.....

"No way...." Maliketh\'s features contorted into a grimace, his face falling in dismay.

Ka—boom!

Suddenly, the sky itself seemed to tear apart as bolts of lightning viciously streaked across the heavens, painting the entire expanse of Sylvergard with a sheet of dark purple.

The spectacle horrified the Sylvergard.

Already traumatized by the destruction in country M, the residents were now confronted with an even more terrifying phenomenon in their homeland.

Ka—boom!

The live broadcasts across Sylvergard relayed this new horror in vivid detail.

"Tch..."

Maliketh\'s eyes narrowed with fury as he glared at the raging skies.

"You won\'t survive for long...!" His voice echoed into the heavens, not aimed at Luna or Wang Xiao, but at some unseen force above, stirring a rare fear and anger within his obsidian gaze.

With a final roar, his form dissolved into pure antimatter, disappearing into the abyss.

"..."

"..."

After a tense, prolonged silence, the lightning finally ceased its furious dance, and the skies slowly cleared, restoring calm to the shaken nation.