Editing Apocalypse Witch:Volume5 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 4===

Transline didn’t even need to descend to the surface.

She had easily torn through the kilometers-long space station at the top of the space elevator. The only habitable area was now a pile of debris floating in space, but that didn’t matter to her.

“''Hee hee.''”

She was laughing the same as always while staring down at the blue planet.

That was enough for invisible energy to leak out of her, which made a nearby Threat spark and cease to function.

There was no air here, so her voice did not reach anyone beyond herself.

“I asked you to let me join the fun, world’s strongests. You didn’t think a mere 36 thousand kilometers was enough to invalidate our promise, did you?”

She reached out her lithe hand.

She was the core of the entire system. She was not designed for direct combat, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t fight.

Her role was to transmit power. So how could she convert that energy into a deadly force?

Crystal Magic was not the only strongest power.

She had one too.

(I could use a laser beam, a linear gun, or a high-frequency guillotine missile. Using a microwave cannon to cook them like they are inside a giant microwave oven could be fun.)

“Well, when you want to know your opponent’s abilities, it is always best to go with the standard choice that comes to mind first.”

Destroying the world was no more than an ordinary benchmark test to her. That was in fact why she had sent all the previous Threats to Earth.

The vacuum tubes across her body filled with heat and glowed with a pale light.

A green glowing orb swirled past her outstretched palm.

A Threat incapacitated earlier (that was shaped like a whip spider, which are so creepy you probably shouldn’t search for an image of them) had its armor glow red from heat before the entire unit began to melt like a piece of hard candy in a flame.

“If something this basic annihilates them, then that’s all they were worth. I can search out another world’s strongest afterwards.”’

Countless vacuum tubes grew from her elbows, knees, back, and head as her smile deepened.

“''Hee hee. Ah ha ha!!'' So prove your worth, Four Living Gods!!!”

Green destruction pierced straight down from heaven to earth.

The attack was designed to reach the planet’s core. If the Original Crystal Embryo had chosen to interfere with her hobby and way of life, she would have eliminated it with this.

It shouldn’t have been possible to dodge.

And their barriers were meaningless against a direct hit from this. The attack would pierce right through the target, the crust, the magma below, and finally reach the center of the planet.

And yet…

“…”

Her smile vanished.

Transline froze in place with arm still outstretched.

Something wasn’t right.

“What is this?”