(***Yoko Flashback***)
Yoko started to explain to Zero what happened during his 4 month apotheosis. She started by telling him that during the beginning stages of his apotheosis Zero had absorbed 90% of the bodies and souls within his dimension. Zero was startled that he’d eaten nearly 2 million souls and soulless bodies. When Yoko and Hel sensed what happened they went into the chaos dimension to assess what was going on when they found Dahlia already there. They saw a black and purple cocoon that was drawing in the bodies and souls from far away and absorbing them rapidly. When Yoko arrived she sense a minuscule amount of her mana leaving her body unwillingly so Yoko placed a shield around herself and the other 2.
“What going on? What is that?” asked Dahlia
“That mana feels like Zero so I assume that he’s going through an apotheosis. He should have let us know that he planned on doing this.” said Yoko as she rubbed her forehead
“Yes you’re right but what concerns me is the amount of souls and bodies that divine sphere is absorbing.” said Hel without puller her gaze from the apotheosis cocoon.
“Why? I remember Zero saying that mine absorbed all the mana in my vicinity.” said Yoko
“That’s normal but I’ve never seen a sphere that needed to absorb souls and matter. I have no idea what will happen so we need to say vigilant.” explained Hel
They watched as the cocoon kept absorbing the souls and bodies until finally, it stopped and the cocoon began to condense. Every time the cocoon would get smaller a heartbeat-like sound echoed throughout the space. As the sound echo more and more the 3 noticed that dimensional tears had begun opening up. With every heartbeat, 13-dimensional tears would open up, and they all lead to the current world but the opening was all over the globe.
“Damn this is bad!” yelled Hel as she left Yoko’s mana barrier.
Hel raised her hand and mana gush forth and attempted to close the dimensional tears. The tears were closing but not fast enough and another heartbeat echo. As the echo touched the dimensional tears earthquakes seemed to occur in those places. Hel managed to close the open tears but another heartbeat opened more so with her other hand she created a green barrier around Zero apotheosis cocoon.
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“Go back to the hotel now 1 of those tears was near the hotel! Make sure everyone is okay!” ordered Hel
The news shocked Dahlia and Yoko as thoughts of the others flashed in their minds. They remained still when they heard Hel shout, “Go!” waking them up. Yoko then open a portal to the hotel and the 2 entered.
When they entered the hotel lobby the sight of it was horrible the place was completely trashed. The walls were cracked and chunks of the ceiling had fallen. Luckily nobody had been hurt badly so they went around looking for the others. They luckily found Hikaru and Yuto safe with Mina in her suite. The room had been hit hard and the damage was extensive but the area around them had no damage so it seemed like Mina had used some type of protection spell.
“What happened?” asked Mina when she saw the 2 of them.
“We’ll explain later for now let’s look for the others and help the employees if they're hurt.” said Yoko
Hikaru and Mina nodded and the group split up to look for Azalea, Soma, and Nova. They searched for 5 minutes before finding the 3 who had been trapped in the underground pool area. Soma and Azalea had used their bodies to protect Nova when the ceiling collapsed causing them to be buried. Nova had used her ability to move the dirt and concrete off them. They then spent the next hour going through the hotel trying to help the employees but sadly 4 of them had died from their injuries before the group found them. They moved the body and soul to another area since sending them to the chaos dimension might endanger them.
“Now that we’re all here what’s going on?” asked Hikaru
Yoko explained what they had seen in the other dimension and how the earthquake happened. Yoko then said, “I’ll be head back to help Hel. if the damage was this bad here even though the epicenter of the quake was somewhere else then the city might also have been hit hard. What do you guys want to do?”
“Wait you said there were multiple tears. So this could be happening all across the world?” asked Soma
Dahlia nodded and said, “Yes I plan to summon my reapers and vampire to take care of the city. As for the world, Azalea and I will create some more to handle the relief effort where we can for now.”
“Okay, then I’ll head into the city with Mina and see if there are people who need healing. Soma, I think you should contact Alucard and the rest before you head to the epicenter to check it out.” said Hikaru
Soma nodded and pulled his phone as he started to walk away. Yoko opened a dimensional tear and said, “This will take to the heart of the city. You’ll appear in an alley but be careful okay.”
Yoko then hugged Nova before handing her back to Azalea and walked through the portal. When she arrived she saw Hel focus her power on keeping the heartbeats contained. Hel then sensed Yoko and asked “How’s the situation at the hotel?” without turning back to face Yoko.
Yoko explained what happened at the hotel and what the other would be focusing on doing. She then asked, “What do you need me to do?”
“I can’t keep the barrier up forever so if I start to get tired switch with me.” said Hel
Yoko then stood there until Hel asked to switch and they would repeat this until the heartbeats stopped a week later. During this time Yoko would periodically contact the others to get a report of how things were.