Galaxy's First Ruler

Chapter 145: Megaton Crusher!

Trrr-Tttt-Trrrrr

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The small and large cannons spun with a rattling noise before firing with a booming sound simultaneously. Their target was Aldrich, who kept dragging the heavy sword towards the Crawler.

The greenish globs of Mana cannonballs came at Aldrich from all directions. Despite the same time of firing, the small ones reached him first, but the result was not something the Crawler had expected.

The missile-like attacks went straight through Aldrich as if his body was transparent. The few lucky ones got swatted away like mosquitoes from the back of Aldrich's left hand. His footprints were all over the ruins, as sometimes they appeared 10 ft away, and sometimes they appeared 5 ft behind him. Aldrich's blurry figure was like a ghost, wandering in the ruins, and ever walking towards its prey.

"Sha can you find it?"

Aldrich muttered as he looked up and saw the three enormous Mana Cannonballs falling towards him from three directions.

"I I think It under us."

"Why?"

"I feel"

Aldrich didn't need more proof than that for him to let go of the Buster-Sword and put his hands on the ground.

"Absolute Pull."

Thrrrrr!!!

The ground quaked and the earth around Aldrich ballooned up as if it was about to erupt with magma. But before the ground could blow up, Aldrich canceled the Rumok and smashed his hand at the top of the lump. When he pulled the hand out, he was grabbing dense brown twigs like hairs.

"NOOOOOOO!"

An inhumane scream came out of the mouthless Giant Crawler as Aldrich pulled out the enormous head of its female companion. Aldrich had already confirmed in the first look that the female was merely a Baron. The way she had been struggling to even lift the stone hammer up was undeniable proof of that.

Bump!

The female head in Aldrich's grasp had also started to rotate and morph, but a slight punch from Aldrich made it lose consciousness on the spot. The Giant Crawler dashed towards Aldrich, but it couldn't match the speed of the cannonballs, which were just above Aldrich's head.

"Haha!"

Aldrich laughed evilly as he lifted the 25 ft tall female Crawler using his outrageous Strength and wrapped her like armor around his body. The three Mana cannonballs didn't distinguish between friend and foe as they came pouring down at Aldrich's location.

BWOOM!

The ballooned-up earth couldn't resist the blasts' power and exploded, sending out debris and the Giant Crawler towards the ruin's edge. The muddy and greenish mushroom cloud didn't abate for the next few minutes. As the last traces of the explosion died down, at the center of the crater there was a large charred body of a wooden Giant. Black charcoal-like flakes rose from the female Giant and got carried away by the wind towards the morphed Giant male Crawler.

"Ah! What a mess!"

Aldrich lifted the charred body of the female, and with the slight exertion of force from his grip, its hand almost shattered in gray ash-like pieces. Aldrich could still feel a hint of life hidden in its body, but it wasn't enough for him to finish her on the spot. He wasn't a person who would ever let go of a possible psychological advantage during a battle.

The Mana cannonballs had created a crater at the tip of the risen earth and now it looked like a volcano with a crater at its top. Aldrich dragged the female Crawler by one hand, the Buster-Sword with another, and brought them up to the edge of the crater. He looked down and far in the distance, he could see the Basajaun running towards him.

The Crawler stopped at the foot of the mound instead of charging up, but Aldrich wanted it to rush at him up the slope. He waved the sword for the Crawler to see and threw the female's body up in the air.

"NO! Basandere!"

The furred mouthless Giant shouted, but Aldrich had already raised his right hand towards the falling blackened body of the female. Blue-Green glow seeped out, shining the traces of dried blood on his sleeve.

"Almighty Push."

The space rippled outwards from Aldrich, bringing with it the rubble, smoke, and the female Crawler. But her charred body couldn't handle the huge amount of jerk and broke down into black pieces of wooden and metallic flesh. The small pieces of her body just happened to fall on Giant's Crawler as if it was a dreadful rain.

There were no more screams and maddened roars, nor were there any signs of losing control. But Aldrich knew his strategy had borne fruits, seeing the Crawler charging towards him in a straight line. The wooden crown entered its body from one of the barrels of the cannons, and it changed back to its humanoid shape. But its size had almost doubled to 60 ft.

Thump! Thump!

The earth mound quaked with its every step as Aldrich again gripped the Stone Splitter and his mind went back to the question. He had contemplated the meaning of Megaton many times.

Was it a unit of weight? Then, given that a ton was only 1000 kg, a megaton would only be 1000000000 kg. For comparison, the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza on Earth was only around 5 Megatons. A size, negligible in the world of RECORD. And if it wasn't related to weight, then what was it?

Aldrich had an even outrageous theory. There was one more thing that used the word Megaton to measure. And that was the yield of a Hydrogen Bomb. Aldrich believed that the Stone Splitter was a weapon capable of discharging a blast yield of 1 Megaton. It was like being a little brother of the most powerful Hydrogen Bomb in the history of humankind, Tsar Bomba.

Aldrich raised the Buster-Sword high and poured every ounce of his Strength into it as the 60 ft. tall Crawler lunged at him. Even before he used the Skill, everything around him seemed to have vaporized. The atmosphere swayed like a mirage in the desert. And when Aldrich brought the sword down on the Crawler's head, the sky blackened in response to his words.

"MEGATON /tsar-bomba