Second Dan Ascendant Verana led a group of fifteen Ascendants, four at the first Dan and the remaining eleven being normal Ascendants who were grateful to work beside an esteemed Second Dan Ascendant as they sought to close the pit of hell created by Shisu, the missing Third Dan Ascendant who must have gone crazy and unleashed a field of devastation that would scar the realm for an eternity.
The forbidden technique Shisu had unleashed had burned a featuring scar on the land, evaporating the ocean and leaving a hole of the Calamity gods below the earth to unleash their presence in the outside world unchecked.
Their presence was spreading corruption in the form of darkness that was infecting any living thing on the surface, turning them into raving Calamity beasts, spreading death to hundreds of continents, and this toll of death was increasing every day. Slowly but surely, this scar on the surface was tipping the balance between Ascendancy and Calamity on the lower realm.
With one Ascendant Sun fighting a war and the other not leaving the heavens, there was barely any light on the lower realms, and the cries of the suffering mortals reached the heavens itself, but no immortal cared.
The Calamity Gods that should have fled deep into the earth after a short time on the surface could now collectively fight against the light of the Ascendant Sun and withstand its destructive light before the Calamity Suns would rise again to strengthen them.Nôv(el)B\jnn
These sixteen Ascendants had been tasked to cover up the scar in the earth, forcing the Calamity gods to retreat, thereby giving the ocean a chance to cover up the area and slowly heal it from the corruption that had taken hold here.
In the beginning, Ascendant Verana thought that this task would be grueling but still achievable, although rare that such devastating techniques were unleashed on the lower realms, it had still happened in the past a number of times, and those scars were healed with a careful administration.
Without the light sparkling them to the earth, what would stop these gods from arising and assaulting the heavens?
'As long as I have life in me,' Ascendant Verana thought, 'This travesty would never take place.'
The tried and tested method to heal the wound on the earth was a bit difficult but fairly straightforward.
Since the Calamity gods resided below the earth and then were further suppressed by the weight of the ocean which had been discovered to contain hidden potent properties that could subdue these nascent Calamity gods, the obvious step was to push the Calamity gods underground and then fill up the earth, this would dissipate the influence of the gods over the area and allow the ocean water to return, thereby sealing them in place.
Simple in theory, extremely difficult, and complex in execution. The first problem that would arise of course was that the Calamity gods would not allow themselves to be easily suppressed below the ground, they would fight back and even after they were suppressed and the earth was covered, they had to hold down the pressure on the ground for long enough until the ocean had reclaimed back its territory, else the Calamity gods would simply burst out from the ground.
The Ascendants in this mission had all been carefully selected for their powers and were focused on earth manipulation, force field applications, and general energy control. They were to slip in, force the Calamity gods into the earth, and seal it while weathering the retaliatory strikes from the Calamity gods and the ocean would complete their task.
It was agreed that the Ascendants would be entering the bubble of darkness when the Ascendant Sun was high in the sky because the Calamity gods would be more sluggish during those moments and they could easily be suppressed. It was a shame that the Ascendant Sun could only last for barely four hours daily, and if they wanted to achieve their goals, they would have to be quick.
It took a few moments after their descent to realize that they were wrong about the scale of this disaster, and now five months and twelve dead Ascendants later, Verana was no longer fighting to close the wound but escape with his life to share the news.
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