Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 1109: Lord Garel.

When Tatyana pointed her sword at Senna's throat, Senna raised her hands in surrender. As she raised them, though, two of her fingers made an unnatural motion. Tatyana's pupils shrunk slightly, and she moved her head to the side.

BANG!

A massive hole appeared on the ground behind her where the bullet had pierced. Tatyana looked into the distance and saw someone lying down and pointing at her with a very long gun. "Hm… That's a sniper, right?"

Senna was baffled. 'D-Did she dodge a sniper bullet?' These bullets travelled at several times the speed of sound, so dodging them was impossible unless you could see and react to the bullet. 

Looking at the place where the bullet landed, she noticed that the tallest woman on the other side was crouching and looking at the hole with a pensive expression. The white dress and veil contrasted beautifully with her light brown skin, attracting many gazes. "So that's what guns do! They accelerate a piece of metal to ridiculous speeds with some sort of mechanism. That's quite ingenious." 

Tatyana sighed. "Aren't you angry that your mother-in-law almost got her head blown up?"

Andrea burst into laughter as she straightened. "Blow up? Yasenia's punch is incomparably stronger, and I've seen you take several of those to the face."@@novelbin@@

Tatyana's eyebrow twitched. "I don't know what her problem is; she is always aiming for the face or other weak points."

Andrea looked amused. "Isn't that what you taught her?"

Senna didn't understand. How could these two be so relaxed? Then, she saw the taller woman look exactly in the direction of the hidden sniper and wave her hand. "Hey, shoot another. This time, aim here."

Andrea pointed at her chest with a smile. Senna almost lost her cool. "Y-You…"

Tatyana sighed. "Mortals and their ignorance. Not all, clearly. However, it is very hard for you mortals to imagine something far beyond your scope of strength."

The man aiming with the sniper was at a loss of words. '... She is asking me to shoot her?'

He didn't really know what to do so he looked toward Senna. However, the commander was frozen stiff, looking between Andrea and Tatyana as if they were monsters. 'Ah… I understand your feelings, commander.' Then, he pressed the trigger.

Green lines lit up along the sniper's long barrel as an electromagnetic field manifested around it. The rings of energy lit up one by one, and in the next instant, a single bullet passed through the energy rings.

BOOM!

The recoil of the weapon moved the shooter a meter back, even with all the supporting tools. Meanwhile, it punched through the air, creating a massive shockwave in its way as it travelled.

Andrea's pupils sharpened as she focused some of her defense on her chest area.

BANG!

The bullet arrived and smashed right between her breasts, creating a visible spark. For Andrea, it felt like someone gave her a penetrative punch in the chest. Still, there was no penetration. Andrea looked down at the small black mark on her clothes with interest. "Ho~?" Andrea looked at Senna and smiled. "Sincerely, it is not bad at all for a weapon that a mortal can shoot."

Senna took a step back and fell on her butt. She could accept their speed. She could accept that they could dodge her bullets. She could accept that perhaps they had enough reflexes to deflect the bullets! 

However, what did she just see? The woman in front of her had taken a shot from an electromagnetic rifle that could pierce through several tanks in a row. The power behind the rifle was so high that even the ultra-tempered floor of the port, made to support the lift-off and landing of the gargantuan spaceships, was caved in. 

The soldiers around had raised their guns before. However, after Andrea's performance, everyone lowered them with baffled expressions. Regardless of how strong individual strength became in their world, no one was impervious to weapons. That's what maintained a certain balance between those with supernatural powers and normal people.

Even the strongest people could be killed by a civilian in the right circumstances. However, what about these new arrivals? Speed that overcame what the eye could follow, durability that even a powerful sniper rifle left nothing but a small mark on them. And their strength? While they didn't know, just a punch with the kinetic force generated through their speed would be devastating against anyone.

A man at the side muttered. "Monsters…"

Our girl's supernatural senses naturally caught it, and some of them looked over at him, amused. "They have yet to see Yasenia, and they are already branding us as monsters?"

Tatyana looked at Senna and shook her head. Senna, even with a higher rank, had proved to be more useless compared to John. Sighing, she turned toward John. "Hey, John. Guide us toward someone willing to talk to us. We've been shot at by now, and we haven't reacted. This should be enough proof that we mean no harm, right?"

John sighed and stepped forward, bowing solemnly. "Please, Ladies, follow me."

He gave Senna one look before turning around and walking away. Our girls followed behind him, their steps light as if they were stepping on clouds. 

No one stopped them as they walked through the massive port. The commotion had not been small, so everyone saw the last moments of it. Seeing Andrea take a bullet to the chest and not flinch was enough deterrence. 

Angel blinked and hummed. "Mommy Tatyana, they've arrived, right?"

Tatyana smiled faintly. "Indeed. Someone that probably knows a few things about what is going on."

At the entrance of the port, several hovering vehicles and a large number of armored vehicles were surrounding a middle-aged man. The firepower of the "bodyguards" was enough to lay waste to a large city in a few moments. 

Seeing this middle-aged man, John's face changed and he immediately went down to one knee. "Lord! Why have you come here? It is dangerous!"

The middle-aged man smiled faintly and spoke. "Dangerous? With these ladies around, I don't feel like I will be in any danger."

Tatyana crossed her arms and muttered. "Third realm…? But the soul is too big for a third-realm Soul Cultivator." She internally squinted her eyes. 'There is something fishy about this…'

Soul Cultivators were rare but not nearly as rare as Body Cultivators. Hence, Tatyana has met them in the past. Since there were no suitable techniques for her and her cultivation knowledge was lacking back then, Tatyana didn't practice a Soul Cultivation technique.

"What's your name, Junior?"

Tatyana's question was met with a harsh response from those around the middle-aged man.

"Insolent!"

"How dare you talk to the Lord like this!?"

Tatyana sighed, getting somewhat tired of this reaction from each new group they met. 'Does everyone here think that they are the biggest fish? I am surprised that the civilization has not ended because of confrontations between powers, thinking that their dick is the biggest!' Tatyana paused. 'Ah, wait. John told me that they almost went extinct once, right?'

The middle aged man saw a complete lack of reaction from this group of celestial women and raised one hand. "It doesn't matter. She might not know since they are new."

Our girls were speechless. 'Not know what?'

The Lord spoke with a smile. "I might not look like it, young lady. However, I am already a 500-year-old man. I hope that you change your method of addressing me in the future."

Tatyana sighed and shook her head. Her tone changed, and she became stern. "A 500-year-old child speaking as if they have seen the immensity between Heaven and Earth. I called you 'junior' because you are my junior. Did you think I couldn't discern your age or strength? Even if you multiplied that age of yours by one hundred and your cultivation realm by two, I would still call you junior!"

Her stern tone and serious eyes struck the Lord's heart and it made him feel intimidated. Tatyana's aura, even if controlled, was just too heavy for someone like him who had no experience in the cultivation world.

An instinctive fear crept up and engulfed his mind, making him blank out for a second. A soldier raised his weapon, angered and thinking that his lord was disrespected. However, our girls had enough of their nonsense. Now that a big fish had appeared, they just needed to coerce information out of him.

Flora waved her hand, and several vines exploded from the ground, coiling around all the vehicles and people in an instant. No one but the Lord was spared.

Tatyana grabbed the Lord by the shoulder and smiled. "Well, let's move to your house and have a chat, okay?"

The man gulped. 'W-Who are these people?'

As they left, John looked at all the vines that appeared out of nowhere with a baffled expression. 'How did those plants even grow here? Isn't this whole place made out of metal and concrete? There is no dirt nearby…'

A few hours later, someone arrived and saw the mess at the entrance of the port. Cutting Flora's vines was impossible, so they couldn't remove it efficiently. The people coiled in them were still there, their faces full of embarrassment. "W-What happened here?! Someone explain the situation to me!"

Senna slapped John on the back, making him stagger a few steps forward. John almost cursed her nine generations. 'I am going to have my revenge later, Senna! I've secretly filmed you falling on your butt from shock. Expect to see yourself on Mediabook later!'

The general looked over and frowned. "Hm? You are Captain John, right? Shouldn't you be patrolling around the Dyson Sphere's 13th sector?"

John's lips twitched, and he smiled. "G-General, I can explain…"

Meanwhile, in the Lord's mansion, Tatyana was taking a sip of tea and listening to the middle-aged man speak. "...and that's how we gained superpowers. We've kept this a secret from the public ever since, controlling humanity with a few capable elite forces. While it is not fair, there was no better solution to the infinite conflicts between ideals. A small group leading a larger group is always better than having everyone in a large group decide as they please."

Tatyana placed the teacup down and muttered. "Interesting… So, to summarize. A person appeared with strange methods and took charge of a dying world. Then, using strange treasures, he pushed the first wave of supernatural people. He left behind a few books and items, which can nourish these superpowers, and left by himself in a spaceship not too long ago to explore the universe, believing that the human race would prosper even without his guidance."

Tatyana looked at the man and asked. "Is that a correct summary, Lord Garel?"

Lord Garel nodded. "That's a superficial but valid summary, Lady Tatyana."

Tatyana rubbed her chin and smiled. "Interesting."