"So that was it—something like Tomie's allure?"
Ampera understood.
"No, this power did not stop at people—or rather, it was not directed at people... an attraction to calamities? In that case, Sequence Four of the Destruction pathway should be called Pandora."
Sequence Four was the first Sequence Ampera had stepped onto in the Destruction pathway. Before that, he had merely been able to use the City of Calamity to wield the Beyonder abilities of the Witch and Red Priest Pathways.
After becoming Sequence Four, he knew roughly what his Beyonder abilities were, but he had never actually tested them. After all, he could neither leave Moon City nor use Moon City as a testing ground.
But now, it seemed he could infer them from his Mythical Creature form.
Beginning of Calamity, Source of Calamity—it could trigger all manner of disasters, whether natural calamities or man-made catastrophes, while also actively wielding weakened calamity powers as weapons.
For instance, the weakened form of natural disasters was control over elements such as water, fire, wind, and lightning. The weakened form of man-made disasters included methods like plague, curses, petrification, and loss of control.
Beyond that, Mirror Magic and Team Power were naturally aspects that could not be ignored. Both were extensions of destructive power: one delved deeply into the self, representing the loss and destruction of the self, while the other looked toward gathering the strength of the masses, an epitome of war.
Ampera's Mythical Creature form was a partial sublimation of the calamity power of the Destruction pathway. Its mere existence would spontaneously provoke all kinds of calamities in its surroundings.
Try imagining this scene:
Ampera walked through the capital of a kingdom. On the streets, civilians, nobles, and soldiers slaughtered one another in a tangled melee. Buildings were bathed in flames,