As the enormous Sky Garden retreated, its twelve Age of Gods Magic Cannons finished charging. At Semiramis's command, the cannons fired in unison! Twelve purple beams pierced the night, smashing into the meteor with power no weaker than Excalibur.
Boom—
The terrifying weapon from the Age of Gods displayed its full might. Mana compressed to its limit erupted with dreadful energy, shattering the massive, solid meteor and knocking its landing point off course. Its enormous mass was reduced by a full half.
Everyone was startled by Semiramis's sudden attack and began speculating about her intentions. Only Semiramis knew that she had merely acted to protect herself.
Under the attacks of the four Servants on the ground and Semiramis, the third meteor was reduced to only one-third of its original size. That remaining third crashed to the ground, throwing up dust a thousand meters high.
The thunderous roar echoed through the night sky, and violent tremors swept across all of Romania. The powerful shockwave uprooted everything on the ground. Fuyuki Castle, closest to the meteor, collapsed in many places amid the violent shaking. Even under the protection of its barrier, one-third of the entire castle was destroyed.
It was as though a magnitude-eight earthquake had struck. Fear of the apocalypse hung over every resident of Tuliphas. Everyone asleep was jolted awake and fled their homes, terrified that the quake would bury them alive.
In the Netherworld underground, Ereshkigal was thrown from side to side by the sudden earthquake and nearly lost her footing.
Dense cracks appeared throughout the expanding Netherworld because of the tremors. The entire underground cavern collapsed, with rubble and earth pouring down. Ereshkigal was nearly buried alive.
"Damn it! What happened up above? Why was there suddenly an earthquake? The Netherworld I stayed up all night expanding is