Chapter 31: Those coming

Since the beginning of the dimensional phenomenon, the map of Australia has undergone significant changes.

The vast, wild areas, much larger than the areas inhabited by people, were the perfect environment for those who had crossed over through the dimensional phenomenon to thrive.

As a result of the scattered Australian cities, making the country’s defense extremely difficult, Australia implemented a special measure…

It was a measure to protect only the territories that could be defended and to abandon the rest, letting those who emerged from the dimensional phenomenon, wild beasts, or even completely unrelated third parties fight and conquer the land as they pleased.

It was truly an extreme measure. It was practically a declaration of giving up that vast area.

But that was the reality of Australia; there was no other way.

There was a time when they declared war on wild animals and achieved no significant results… Therefore, they were well aware that it was practically impossible to manage all of the land, which was too vast for the population.

And even before they realized the past failures, several cities were hit hard by the dimensional phenomenon, causing the problem and countermeasures to become a major issue…

Therefore, Australia moved all the population, facilities, and equipment to the north, and then abandoned and neglected the remaining cities and facilities, gathering everyone in the designated residential area.

Well, it wasn’t a difficult task. Australia had a truly ridiculously small population compared to its land size. It was actually smaller than the population of Korea. Despite having such a vast land…!

Of course, it wasn’t an easy task. There were many people, and asking them to abandon their homes and move to another place inevitably brought great opposition.

However, the government, which had already suffered damage and seriously accepted reports that the future outlook was hopeless if they continued to take a leisurely approach, responded strongly. They thought it would be better to sacrifice a few than to let everyone die. It wasn’t like they were killing people, just moving their homes.

Thus, Australia, having successfully implemented a plan that could only be done with a simple yet firm decision to give up what had to be given up and to protect what had to be protected at all costs, began to defend its territory with the determination that it could not allow even a little more territory to be invaded from outside Australia’s borders…

And that meant that they had completely given up on information about the abandoned territory, which was now called the lawless territory.

In fact, considering the vastness of Australia, they judged that pouring effort into dangerous reconnaissance was a bad move, and their current strategy was to focus solely on defense by building a solid defense wall.

Anyway, they were not isolated from neighboring countries because they were adjacent to the sea, so it wasn’t a big problem. There were also some reliable Awakeners in Australia.

The ecosystem called the lawless territory in Australia was formed thanks to this Australian indifference.

Because they stuck to such a strategy, quite a few guys who liked such places came in.

As such, the Australian side had no idea.

What a tragedy was happening in the land they had abandoned…!

Criminals, people who wanted to rest, or people who needed to hide… countless people flocked to this land.

Of course, the reality was dangerous… but those who thought that it wouldn’t be just danger saw hope in the land abandoned by the government, and managed to find or create a kind of safe zone.

Well, by conducting investigations with money, or by guaranteeing safety through transactions with those who had come through the dimensional rift and settled in the abandoned areas of Australia, and so on.

Australia was still a better place to live than Africa, which had become a ticking time bomb with the formation of the Pandemonium, and was considered to have been destroyed if the main monsters of Pandemonium had not fought among themselves, or Antarctica and the Arctic, which had become monster lands.

It also had its own sales point, feeling a bit lighter and more temporary than Central and South America, which accepted anyone with money and skill.

And so, this area, called the lawless territory and half-isolated from the world, was now… a living hell.

A mad knight, who, with a burning, resentful gaze, slaughtered living beings beyond humans, killing them as soon as they were caught in her senses and absorbing their souls, leaving them in a state worse than dried-up mummies, was silently massacring the living beings in the western area,

KAAAAAAAH!!

On the other side, a monster that had completely destroyed a continent had arrived, flashing an ominous sword light and completely devastating the area with overwhelming power.

It was as if she thought that failure was the mother of success, and that she should first detonate countless explosions in order to create a beloved rival, causing ruthless and indiscriminate destruction!

However, unfortunately or fortunately, the situation in Australia was not becoming an issue in the current situation.

It was because it was a half-forgotten land, a land with demand only in the underworld, and a land with a sales point of being quiet and uninterested, so naturally, there was little information.

And, in fact, there were so many bigger issues.

Italy, where a whole city had evaporated, the Holy Kingdom, which had been unassailable until now, had been destroyed, and not only was it destroyed, but the flames that began to burn using the entire Holy Kingdom as firewood were still not extinguished, showing a bizarre appearance and becoming a big issue…

In Africa, the Pandemonium, which was considered so solid and impregnable that it was thought that it would never return to the human domain again, suddenly collapsed, and the undead, the cause of the collapse, emerged and were trying to turn all of Africa into a land of corpses.

In addition, in the outskirts of China, a huge area of forest was devastated by an unidentified phenomenon, and one of the highest powers of mankind, one of the Nine Heavens, who was dispatched to investigate this mysterious incident, disappeared without any news, raising endless anxiety about whether they were dead or not, and whether the Nine Heavens had collapsed…

In the Arctic, which had long been out of the human domain, a mysterious human-shaped being suddenly appeared, freezing the already frozen Arctic and trapping it in a blizzard, creating a contradictory situation, and was entering Russia, bringing back the Ice Age to the world.

The Nine Heavens dispatched due to the phenomenon that occurred on the first continent that appeared due to dimensional fusion also did not return with any news, and in North America, meteorites continued to fall, causing damage to skyrocket, and a monster that appeared in Antarctica destroyed the entire area.

And even the second continent was completely destroyed… the news that the dark organizations of South America were being defeated one by one and integrated into one was so small that it was buried.

Anyway, that was the situation, and even a huge event like the destruction of the second continent, which could be said to be near Australia, had happened… so who would be interested in the lawless territory of Australia, where news was rarely heard?

There were even many cases where even the people of the attacked land were not properly aware of the situation.

The black sword of the hero, who had already ground and destroyed a continent, was truly enough to vibrate the entire Australian continent…

But the Australian side just thought that the dimensional phenomenon was a bit loud, and those who were not very outstanding just didn’t feel it and stayed still. If they were close, they died without knowing anything.

Those who were strong or had sensitive senses tried to escape to the other side, but unfortunately, there was a knight who was quietly killing everyone, so they were killed by her, or they tried to fight and died more miserably without even leaving a corpse… the ending was terrible.

At least, only those who fled to the side where they were not had a chance to survive. A small number, though.

So, as Australia was turning into a land of death again with corpses…

The man, who was their target, was conveniently located right in the center, so he was just relaxing and spending time in isolation from the world.

Creak, creak!

Today, too, Zion, who was still leisurely spending time in a place so detached from the world that there wasn’t even a TV, had subtly covered his face with the book he was reading… and was soundly asleep, as if he knew nothing.