At an altitude of 10,000 meters, the air currents rise and evaporate.
The golden Lasso of Truth through the black smoke and broken clouds, leaving behind dazzling golden arcs.
Immediately, Diana stepped on a piece of debris falling from the sky, gathering strength in her legs—
Suddenly tense up!
The combat boots carved out a ring of spiderwebs.
"Thump!!"
Her battle skirt fluttered in the wind.
Her figure rose into the air against the raging winds.
Immediately afterwards, Diana crossed her arms and slammed the two bracelets together on her wrists!
"When--!!!"
The deafening clang of metal against metal exploded straight through the clouds.
Before the sound subsided, a semi-transparent repulsive ring was already propelled out from the point of impact.
It carved out a ring-shaped cavity from the churning, thick clouds all around.
"Whoosh--"
The cloud wall collapsed outwards, and countless water vapors were pulverized into a fine white mist at the repulsive edge.
For a moment, wisps of clouds rose, creating an extremely misty atmosphere.
Diana was unlikely to be able to enjoy such a beautiful sight.
With a flick of her wrist, the Lasso of Truth slipped from her palm, and then... golden light suddenly stretched and extended within the clouds!
Like a golden python set ablaze, it swept through the gaps in the rolling clouds and burrowed downwards.
"Waving..."
The lasso ripped through a hole in the cloud and plummeted straight down from the bottom of the clouds, thousands of meters below.
Then it leaped over the burning fragments, dodged a flying piece of dragon bone, and then fiercely bit into the largest bearing.
"Sizzle!!"
The golden light tightened.
A deep, bright mark was carved into the bearing housing; the inertia of nearly 800 tons caused the lasso to suddenly sink.
At the bottom of the cloud layer, a straight trail was instantly flung out by the violent downward force.
He got caught in the head ring...
Diana frowned and gritted her teeth.
tension!!
Immediately, Diana's body arched backward in mid-air, her wheat-colored arms taut inch by inch.
Veins bulged, and divine blood burned.
Diana withstood the hundreds of thousands of pounds of pulling force emanating from her wrists, her body creaking and cracking as she was pulled.
"Give me... a break!!"
In an instant, a battle cry burst from the bottom of her throat.
A resounding roar!
The person was still suspended in mid-air with nothing to hold onto, and then suddenly twisted their waist and abdomen, bending out an extreme arc.
Using the momentum she had built up as she fell, Diana swung her arms outwards with a powerful, explosive motion.
The wind rustled through the clothes, causing a ripple in the surrounding air.
"Thump!!!"
A piercing explosion erupted in the void.
In the blink of an eye, the huge iron lump was forcibly pulled away from the sluice gate by the lasso, whistling past the outer wall of the bank building.
Vacuum shear swept across.
Hundreds of tempered glass panes along the way shattered into dust in an instant.
It hasn't stopped yet!
The debris was suspended in a swirling vortex, then suddenly pierced diagonally, carving straight into the base of the bay breakwater.
"Splash--!!!"
A hundred-foot-high, white wave surged up and soared into the air.
Immediately, Diana tumbled in mid-air to dissipate the force, then slammed one knee heavily onto the rooftop helipad of a skyscraper.
After a long while, the smoke and dust finally dissipated.
A bead of sweat mixed with a thin layer of dust slowly trickled down Diana's cheek, lingering for a moment along the contour of her jaw.
It had just fallen down.
"Clatter!"
Sweat dripped onto the scorching surface of the eagle armor, accompanied by a soft hissing sound and wisps of white steam rising from it.
"Huff huff..."
Even Diana, a demigod, was slightly out of breath at this moment.
This was the 23rd piece of debris she had intercepted.
If she doesn't stop her--
Diana hung from the edge of the building, looking down.
Below, the entire city had already been paralyzed.
Long lines of cars stretched along the coastal boulevard, while a dense crowd of people jostled and surged in front of the shelter.
Under the overpass, someone was desperately dragging his child and wife along, staggering towards the subway entrance.
If that giant object had fallen successfully...
It will then cut through the top layer like a hot knife slicing through butter.
From the bank building, the tunnel will be driven all the way to the foundation.
At that time, the entire building will break cleanly at the waist.
The upper half of the sculpture lay horizontally on the coastal boulevard, while the lower half collapsed onto the adjacent financial district.
Everyone below, including everything in the shelter...
All will die.
With that thought in mind, Diana took a breath, gathered her strength in her ankle again, and prepared for the next interception.
However.
Just one second before she was about to jump.
The entire sky suddenly darkened.
Gathering gloom? The last rays of the setting sun?
Neither.
It was an absolute blanket of blackness.
From west to east, it swept across the entire city, its shadow creeping across the coastal boulevard, swallowing up dozens of office buildings over 100 meters tall.
Under its projection, those landmark buildings appeared as insignificant as ants.
Black Zero.
It is falling.
The weight is 230 million tons.
At that very moment, freed from the restraint of the anti-gravity magnetic field, it plummeted downwards like a floating continent.
"Boom boom boom boom boom----!!!!"
Meanwhile, cumulonimbus clouds stretching for tens of miles at an altitude of ten thousand meters were falling over this lost continent.
It turned into a vast, white void.
A violent, downward-moving wind followed like a shadow.
Beneath Diana's feet, the seemingly sturdy skyscraper began to groan under the immense pressure and strong winds.
In the blink of an eye.
The top floors of the other, taller buildings collapsed one after another due to wind pressure.
The skylights were neatly and uniformly Smash and burst open.
The tarmac crumbled, sending up clouds of dust that scattered with the wind.
Soon, that oppressive force descended upon everyone equally.
"Thump!!!!"
The pressure from above felt like a thousand pounds crashing down.
Before Diana could even straighten up...
The ceiling above us sank even lower.
"Thump--!"
A strong wind swept through the area.
Diana had just regained her balance, suddenly collapsed, her entire body being forcefully "pressed" deeper into the building by the terrifying pressure.
"Ugh..."
She clenched her teeth tightly, gripped the tarmac surface with her hands, and her whole body burst forth with golden light.
A fierce confrontation, with the sound of bones creaking.
"Snap!"
In an instant, the ground beneath his knees Smash.
Diana's knees were forced into the cracked concrete.
Immediately afterwards, he was pushed forward by that violent downward force, his armor pressed against the ground, and his chest was squeezed hard.
Lower the brakes.
Boom! Boom! (Boom!)
Several sounds in succession!
The load-bearing beams and countless rivets and steel bars inside the building were cracking under the strain.
Immediately afterwards--
"Splash--!!"
The glass walls spanning the entire thirty-story building were shattered outwards by the violent air pressure in a single instant.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble--"
With a groan that could be heard throughout the entire block, the rooftop completely lost its support.
The central axis disintegrated inch by inch.
The building was like a flattened accordion, folded and smashed downwards layer by layer.
Not long after.
With a sudden drop beneath Diana, the entire building collapsed and fell with a deafening roar!
A torrent plunges vertically from the sky!
Amidst the fluttering wind, her battle skirt was draped backwards over her body.
In the nick of time, she twisted her body in mid-air during the weightless fall, and her wrist suddenly twitched.
"Call out--"
A golden ray swept across the turbulent airflow.
The Lasso of Truth swept through the air with a sharp angle.
With a crisp "clang," it tightly gripped the protruding load-bearing steel bar in the middle.
Immediately afterwards, the lasso snapped taut!
"Crunch--"
The sturdy steel beam suddenly emitted a strained, acidic sound.
Driven by the momentum of the plunge, Diana used the force to swing through the air, leaving a trail of afterimages.
It somehow managed to twist the vertical downward trajectory into a slanted, falling arc.
A muffled "bang"!
She used the momentum to her advantage and lowered one knee.
The concrete below his knees exploded with a spiderweb-like crack, sending debris flying everywhere.
She was hung in the middle of the building.
"Call..."
Diana glanced down at the ground and the lasso supporting her.
It's too thin.
Compared to that, there is only a black wall that blocks out the sky.
This artifact, which once bound Ares, was as thin as a single, delicate silk thread.
Despair welled up inside me, uncontrollably.
Diana closed her eyes.
That's all.
The entire human world... is utterly finished.