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.
was the custodian of the Hall on active duty, appeared in the air below and
alive and uninjured.” she noted with some amazement, then a severe irritation became apparent
she complained as she Restored the
a seriously messed up Translocation.” Fire observed
them, abashed and contrite. “At least I got the location,
the trajectory of the world around the sun.” Povon mildly scolded him as they flew down to the
about that. I can promise I won’t do it again.” he told
glad for all the hours we spent practicing Shields.” Val giggled
get to it.” Six eagerly
ask that all ruling members of The Assembly of The Just Alliance join us here at The Hall of The Just Alliance for an urgent meeting, as soon you
to be good, I can feel it.” Tithian eagerly told them as she appeared beside them, then she jumped again
on such short notice was there. That was almost all of them, including all of
this.” Mark told her with a
smiled in
warlocks; we can see and manipulate the fields that collect the Source and transmute it into usable magic, we can re-create them to cast completely self-powering spells, and we can do the same with
and discovered how much total power we could wield. We experimented further, and tested our ability to cast the most devastating attack spell ever devised; a modified version of the Gate to the surface of the sun that The People of
sun and a location at the distance that the demons are from us now, with almost five million square kilometers of area. That is many times more than the entire surface area of the gigantic rock the demons are using as a vessel, and we can cast the portal to completely conform to the surface of the
all within it, so we’ll have automated versions of the spell go inside just before we do that and hunt down any