What's the most epic attack you've ever written in fiction?

[Eldoria]

Epic Attack​

In fiction, especially fantasy and action genres, epic attacks from characters (usually antagonists) are often the most memorable moments. I still remember Pain's (Nagato) epic attack with Shinra Tensei destroying Konoha into a crater; and how the epic attack of the Gura-Gura no Mi created an earthquake and tsunami that nearly drowned Marineford.

Spoiler: My epic attack

In my unpublished work, I wrote a slash of the sword of judgment that carried the 'will of the world judgment' (not mana or aura) that split the night sky and destroyed a magic ballistic missile (which is equivalent to an ICBM with a nuclear warhead) where the impact of the attack created a giant explosion in the night sky becoming a 'night apocalypse', the night sky suddenly turned bright like day and showed the face of night in various places of the kingdom that was in turmoil and forced all factions that were fighting in various places to stop fighting and go to the place of the explosion.

My questions are:

1. What's the most epic attack you've ever written in fiction?
2. How massive was the damage from that attack?

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

In one of my fanfics where my MC hops around video game worlds, in the world of Final Fantasy 7, I had Aerith cast the spell 'Holy'. I rewrote how it worked so it didn't become the anti-apocalypse spell it was in the game, but more like a miniature version of it.

If you ever watched the anime, The Misfit of Demon King Academy, it basically turned into Geo-Grace, turning into a holy magic cannon that cored the monster that was thrashing my MC and Tifa.

Oh and I had Terra from Final Fantasy 6, in her morphed mode, cast 'Ultima' in a modded version of 'Doom', that nuclear bomb like spell bringing down a large portion of the building they were inside of....on top of them.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Unless the action David took against the strigoi in Between Worlds counts as an attack (it was meant as healing but took out a bunch of undead in an effort to keep one person from turning), it was probably in one of the fights on my story on HoneyFeed - Kaiju battles tend to lend themselves to epic attacks from both sides.

 

[empalgepuk]

Ellie's Tiger Fist. Chapter 39 of my Novel.

Just a fancy alias of One Inch Punch. Able to send her foe nearly 100 meters away. But it broke her fist.

 

[Worthy39]

Ellie's Tiger Fist. Chapter 39 of my Novel.

Just a fancy alias of One Inch Punch. Able to send her foe nearly 100 meters away. But it broke her fist.

Chapter 39 you say? Coincidence? I think not! My name has a 39 in it!


But as for mine, I've tried to avoid getting to a point where characters are single-handedly able to cause an apocalypse, but my main antagonist of the first arc used a technique I believe is best described like a mix of Trafalgar Law's power from One Piece, and Kaname Tōsen's bankai from bleach. I didn't even think of them when I was making the ability, but thinking back on it, that's just the easiest way to describe it. Ended up flattening all the characters trying to fight him.

 

[Eternauta86]

For me it's a toss up between the demonic shadow raptors Falazar summons at the festival of Argren and the corrupting sickly green sorcery of the goblin shaman devouring and rotting a giant cultist from the inside in High Tor. Both are in the second book. Apart from being powerful, they're visceral and scary.

 

[MFontana]

Epic Attack​

In fiction, especially fantasy and action genres, epic attacks from characters (usually antagonists) are often the most memorable moments. I still remember Pain's (Nagato) epic attack with Shinra Tensei destroying Konoha into a crater; and how the epic attack of the Gura-Gura no Mi created an earthquake and tsunami that nearly drowned Marineford.

Spoiler: My epic attack

In my unpublished work, I wrote a slash of the sword of judgment that carried the 'will of the world judgment' (not mana or aura) that split the night sky and destroyed a magic ballistic missile (which is equivalent to an ICBM with a nuclear warhead) where the impact of the attack created a giant explosion in the night sky becoming a 'night apocalypse', the night sky suddenly turned bright like day and showed the face of night in various places of the kingdom that was in turmoil and forced all factions that were fighting in various places to stop fighting and go to the place of the explosion.

My questions are:

1. What's the most epic attack you've ever written in fiction?
2. How massive was the damage from that attack?

That depends entirely on your definition of epic.

1) In D&D terms, when my party wizard and I worked together to drop a multi-ton ectopic construct on a Spellweaver's head from ~30ft up.
2) It did 1,103 points of damage (300d6) which we did roll at the table. To my knowledge, this is still the "Most Damage in a single attack" record holding result.
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This was written into an unpublished story for my second group about some of the shenanigans an alternate-universe version of my current character did.

Otherwise; it is from when (in another unpublished story) the protagonist used his ultimate spell to effectively nuke a city off the map. (He got the wrong city because he was holding the map upside down, and ended up obliterating a city that was loyal to him instead of the one that was rebelling against him; as part of an ongoing meta-joke for his character arc.)

 

[CinnaSloth]

I would say this part was pretty epic, and dark:

Spoiler

The Cosmic god of The Realm After took two planar worlds they had been holding up for thousands of millennia in their endless amount of hands, and smashed them together like a sandwich in a nonchalant failed attempt to crush, and kill the MC, ending the after lives of billions of active souls. Then ate, and swallowed their remains.

 

[HarryGarland]

I wrote something like DMC Vergil's ultimate.

Executed by MC and his two doppelgangers in triangle formation, with the antagonist in the middle. MC shot forward, time stopped, lines of black and white light criss-crossed the air and MC reappears (after recombining with his doppelgangers), his back facing the enemy. enemy stays frozen where he is.

Then, MC sheathes his sword like this:

Herald straightened, reversed Asa and Kuro in his grip and crossed his arms. He let the blades hovered in the air, horizontal and parallel to each other. And slowly, he ran his palms down the blade, sweeping outwards along the spine. They dissolved into ribbons of light, fusing with his arms. His hands traced till the end and a little further after.

Thus, Herald sheathed his swords in a new way. No more clicking like when Kuro was a physical obsidian adamantium katana with a sheathe. Just the hum of Ruach.

Silence... Herald stood with both hands outstretched, then he clenched his fists in finality.

An explosion of light and darkness tore through the sanctum, the sound of glass breaking filled the sanctum as dimensional shards fell to the ground.

A pained gasp, "Imposs-" and Lamen exploded into motes of light.

 

[Envylope]

There was an attack from a baka witch that stopped time. Though, it happened epically.

Source: trust me, bro.