The One Above The Heavens Chapter 18

Fun fact. Campione durability and their magic resistance made me immune to radiation.

Another fun fact. An explosion driven by mortal science was technically just really hot fire.

Both facts resulted in something rather pitiful. When a dozen nuclear missiles get sent at me. My Yang Jade Seal just ate all the explosions, with my flying form coming out of the blaze of several countries' apocalyptic attempts at my life with not a single scratch.

'Campione are devil kings. Normal humans can't stand up to us under any circumstances... I now understand the primordial fear the mages and people back home had for me.' I thought as I used another spell to create an active volcano that swallowed up another city in a massive sinkhole and then the resulting volcanic explosion took care of the rest.

Nuclear Missiles, monomolecular blades on the sides of hypersonic missiles, and laser weapons from somewhere in the atmosphere.

Nothing the people of this world had, could actually do anything to me.

I was this world's Noah's Flood, I was a brutal reminder that humanity... Wasn't alone on this planet. And humanity was nowhere near the top of the food chain.

It was only after I tore through Japan, and the major population centers of China, India, that I moved through Europe, and after tearing through Europe destroying the capital city of every country and city that hosted the headquarters of a mega-corporation. I finally ended up in North America.

"People have left the cities at least." I mused to myself as I could feel with my campione senses that despite many lights being left on in New York City. It had a pitiful collection of souls remaining within the city.

Just the people who refused to evacuate into the badlands outside of the heavily polluting cities and I gave the city the same treatment all the others and with a swift chant I created an active volcanic eruption beneath the city with many buildings falling into the massive sink hole leading the roiling lava below.

Though with the Atlantic Ocean pouring into said volcano, its resulting eruption wasn't going to be so bad.... Hell maybe in a few decades, this place could become a great hot springs resort once all the polluted water had time to be burnt clean via the lava.

"Alright, I am done." I spoke aloud to the entities of Alaya and Gaea who were watching me.

This time I was more prepared as Gaea's alien mind connected with mine and her words smashed into my mental barriers. "N̸o̷,̴ ̴c̴u̶l̶l̴ ̷t̷h̵e̴m̷ ̴m̵o̷r̴e̸.̷ ̵T̴h̵e̸y̷ ̷n̸e̷e̶d̴-̶"

I cut off the embodiment of the Earth as I said calmly. "I am done. I killed more than Ghengis Khan, I killed more than Stalin and Hitler put together. That is enough."

There was a moment of silence before I felt Gaea pull back from my mind with my feeling of her constant gaze also going away.

Alaya herself the embodiment of humanity and its desire to live then connected to my mind with her voice coming in far clearer. "Collect the technology of this world, it will do much to help your own version of Earth so long as you control the resource gathering of your subjects."

I stood there flying in the air for a long moment as I looked at a small town that I had flow over after leaving New York, and I spoke slowly. "Why me? Why didn't you just use a counter-guardian or send a Heretic God to purge this world?" 

There wasn't any hesitation as Alaya with seemingly mechanical calmness responded. "You were a more convenient force to push into this position. This event also pushes you further into becoming a true ruler to keep humanity advancing. You won't hesitate anymore when you get back to your Earth."

Alaya's words were all too true after all... After killings so many faceless millions of people. What were a few thousand or even million more when I came out publicly as I take over Japan and began expanding my empire?

The embodiment of humanity itself was telling me to quit being so soft-handed with only 'publicly' ruling over the mage side of things of Japan as was the norm of the nation's magical side being handed over to the resident Campione.

With a flex of my will I teleported across the states easily as there was no wards to worry about in this world and I came out of my teleport with my Sage Robes shifting into a pair of casual clothes as I landed in the streets of Night City.

The symbolic heart of this parallel world. 

"Do legends of this world like Adam Smasher, and V end up on the Throne of Heroes?" I asked curiously.

I could feel Alaya's gaze on my coming back at my question and she hesitated seemingly before responding in her typical blunt manner.

"No. This world is utterly bereft of magical energy, faith energy is halfhearted, and they rely on their technology above all else." 

I shrugged my shoulders at that and after a moment of thought, I stepped into the stairwell leading me down into the heart of the city. 

The Afterlife Bar.

Walking into the bar, I saw for one its gang goon mercenaries were almost completely gone with only a couple morose people nursing some drinks and of course the queen bitch herself in Rogue Amendiares sitting in a side room watching as I came in.

"Well well. Normally someone as casual as you would be thrown out. But hell, it's the end of the world what will you have?" The bartender asked with some dark humor as I took a seat.

I gave a slight hum as I searched my memory and then I spoke. "Give me a Silverhand Special." 

"Huh, that hasn't been ordered for a long while. Where did you even hear about that?" The lady bartender asked curiously as she began making my drink.

Tequila, a splash of beer, salt, and some chili oil were given a quick stir and handed to me in a whisky glass... About a good finger digit deep in reality.

"The drink is supposed to symbolize being a rebel, or maybe its supposed to mean to reminisce about times that have passed... It just tastes like shit, who puts chili oil in their drinks?" 

'That and of course the Beer and Tequila is fucking garbage as well.' I thought with a sigh as I put the drink down with soft clink of glass on the metal bar as I looked around the bar to take in its appearance.

'So many souls have walked into here... It's like heroes walking towards their doom to become a legend, a legend that is only remembered via their graves, word of mouth, and a shitty drink in a literal dive bar that hides underground.' 

"So any reason you are all-natural? Hell, actually how the hell are you going to pay if you don't even have a credit chip?" The bartender demanded with some annoyance.

I couldn't help a chuckle hearing that demand and I took the empty whisky glass into my hands and with a flex of my mana the glass glowed before I put it down with a harsher clank as metal met metal.

I had turned the glass into pure gold and I popped my neck as I stood up with my Sage Robes covering my body. 

"Your drink sucks ass, and Silverhand himself was a dumbass," I spoke with my voice assuredly going towards Rogue in the back and I could see her gaze snapping upwards to glare towards me.

And I couldn't help a carefree chuckle as I saw Rouge realize who I was and go completely pale before I turned around and I walked out of the Afterlife. Knowing I was going to be the 'greatest' legend of them all that had passed into this bar.

As I walked out of the bar, I could feel my adoptive mother Pandora seemingly giving my soul a hug of all things making me chuckle as I continued to walk through the dead silent and empty streets of Night City.

The Night City, which was all but silent. As I had terrified this world with my measured genocide.

"Are you ready to go home Jake?" Pandora whispered into my mind.

And for a moment I considered things as I had plenty of time to think while I was doing my grizzly work. I slowly nodded as I spoke. "Yeah... This world? I don't want to bring its issues back to my world. And with how I introduced myself to this world. It's not like I bring someone back to my Earth."

I knew I was in the period of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, but so what? I had killed literally millions of people and was this world's fucking nightmare. 

The thought of introducing myself to best girl Rebecca and Lucy would go... Very poorly to say the least.

So I put some steel in my back as I knew back on my Earth I had people I cared about... Probably too large of an entourage of waifus already honestly. And I spoke firmly.

"Yeah Pandora, give me like five minutes. I want to grab this worlds history of video games and their consoles along with their anime and such."

There was a pause before Pandora's voice had a hint of pleading in it. "My son... Please tell me your particular insanity is not being obsessed with anime and video games!?"

I coughed hearing the desperation in her voice and I shook my head as I replied. "No. Not at all... Just I want some more in my free time and it can't hurt to have some stuff to sell in my world that doesn't take any more resources then just bandwidth." 

Plus... I was at the Fate Stay Night point in time of 2004. I was fucking stuck with big box tv's and the only games that have come out this year were GTA San Andreas, Halo 2, and Half-Life 2.

I was going to take over the world through its culture and media... Watch as I conquer the hearts and minds of children and future generations with Minecraft, call of duty, Fortnite... And if I am desperate I will put out Gorilla Tag or something.

Even as I felt Pandora give me space as I went about turning some gold into credits. I realized that I still needed to bring back the base technology to run all these games so I got to work basically stripping the local game stores and 'vintage stock' stores of all their games and systems.

"I am going to put all... All the mods into files for Minecraft to be added at people's leisure. Fuck you Mojang for only adding a single mob a damn year." I grumbled to myself as I was giddy at the realization I was going to tech uplift my world a good bit purely for my satisfaction of getting better media entertainment.