These energy light beams raced through space at nearly the speed of light, crossing millions of kilometers almost instantly as they headed straight for Earth.
Earth's atmosphere, the barrier protecting countless lives, did its utmost to stop the high-energy bombardment, but ultimately lacked the strength to do so.
The instant atmospheric molecules came into contact with the beams, they were violently heated and ionized, forming brilliant trails of plasma like the brightest meteors in the night sky—except they heralded the arrival of disaster.
Although the atmosphere weakened some of the beams' energy, what remained was still enough to make every living being on Earth tremble.
As the energy light beams pierced the atmosphere, friction with air molecules generated immense heat and light. The entire sky seemed to ignite, blooming with colors more dazzling than anything ever seen before.
Those lights were not merely a visual spectacle, but the ultimate display of physical phenomena: blue light represented the transition of high-energy electrons, red light was the characteristic spectrum emitted after atoms were stripped of electrons, while the violet glow hinted at the involvement of Quantum Effects.
Brilliant streaks of light tore across the sky like the most magnificent fireworks in the universe, accompanied by deafening explosions that turned night into day and filled Earth's living beings with unprecedented terror and despair.
Under such an assault, Earth's Reincarnators, Superheroes, and Supervillains—powerful individuals who normally fought on their own and possessed vastly different abilities—all found themselves in an unprecedented predicament.
Their powers, whether controlling the elements, traveling through time and space, or possessing superhuman strength and speed, seemed utterly feeble against attacks moving at nearly the speed of light.
The delay in their senses became a fatal weakness. Even the sharpest perception could not catch the beams' trajectories in advance, because their speed