Chapter 32:  Accident

The first continent.

One of the two continents created by dimensional fusion, and unlike the second continent, a land of monsters, not a human domain.

However, unlike the second continent, which was unexplored because it was dominated by humans from another dimension and was their territory and culture, the first continent was a land of monsters, but also a land of those who had a close cooperative relationship with the humans of Earth.

Even though the second continent was the territory of a huge single force called an empire that had come from another dimension, it had a similar situation, with monster forces and other races.

The first continent was a land conquered by monsters and destroyed by them, but there were still humans who survived and were fighting against the monsters.

The Earth side thought that if the monsters that had swallowed the first continent, which were not very friendly to Earth, ate humans, were quite strong, and had strong reproductive abilities, completely conquered the continent and came to this side, there would be great damage. The survivor group of the first continent already knew that the world was destroyed, and that they, the remnants, were resisting now, but their resistance would not last long.

In short, the needs of Earth and the survivors were perfectly met. Therefore, the two forces formed an alliance.

Mankind was already busy and struggling because of the dimensional phenomenon, and monitoring the entire newly appeared continent was a really difficult task, so they gained strong, high-quality manpower to take on that task without manpower consumption. They gained a force that could provide support for survival and resistance.

As long as they agreed to the condition they wanted, which was to relocate those who did not want to participate in the fight out of the first continent, they would gain experienced and skilled veteran forces.

So, after making a promise to let those who wanted to escape or their families live in a peaceful place, and signing a mutual alliance, they were generally satisfied with each other and maintained the alliance well.

Until suddenly, all contact with the survivor groups of the first continent was completely cut off.

They were in regular contact for supplies and equipment, and if the survivors who were fighting wanted to contact their families, they were allowed to, and if they wanted to rest, they were allowed to take a break and breathe the outside world air, and they also received reports on the movements of the monsters, so periodic contact was made through a well-organized communication network…

But that contact was completely cut off.

Contact did not come at the time when contact should have come, when contact for reporting or information delivery should have come, and even when they tried to contact, there was no answer.

And the occurrence of such an abnormal phenomenon… could be considered as a sudden event.

Opinions were divided on what kind of incident, what kind of accident had occurred.

“Could it be that the monsters launched a major offensive and they couldn’t hold out?”

“That’s unlikely. We were constantly monitoring the movements of those guys, and it’s unlikely that we would miss such a major offensive, or that they wouldn’t contact us in such a situation.”

“Hmm… then could it be that there was an internal conflict?”

“Damn it, all their families are living better here than they used to live there, what would they gain by causing an internal conflict!”

“Ummm… then could it be that something happened with the dimensional phenomenon? Since all contact was cut off at once, could it be that a meteorite fell or something…?”

“Oh, that… is the most likely thing!”

In an age where all sorts of strange things related to dimensions never cease.

In this world where gold bars fall from the sky and corpses suddenly rise from the ground, nothing is impossible.

Eventually, most unusual events are attributed to the dimensional phenomenon.

And people thought that way about the current situation as well. Because there was no other clear reason for this to happen.

But there was one problem…

In order to solve or investigate this situation, someone had to go directly to that dangerous land and find out the truth.

In other words, there had to be someone with excellent skills who could be dispatched there and return alive, and who had the ability to accept this task immediately…

Fortunately, there was such a person in England, the closest country to the first continent.

Earth’s strongest, the Nine Stars.

One of those great Nine Heavens was in England.

Knight Master, Sir Marlon Stafford.

A real knight who was personally knighted by the King of England for single-handedly defeating a monster so powerful that it was called a disaster that occurred in a dimensional rift that appeared in Birmingham.

This knight, who was busy solving dimensional rift-related incidents on a daily basis, volunteered himself to investigate the incident on the first continent as soon as he heard about it.

“There’s no need to say more, I’ll go.”

“My friend is also there, so it’s right for me to go.”

So, when he flew directly to the first continent, what he saw was… a shocking sight.

“Huh… what the hell…?”

Corpses, corpses, corpses!

From the moment he arrived and took a step inside, all he could see was blood and corpses.

Corpses were piled up everywhere, forming mountains or hills, and so much blood had flowed that it was still wet and flowing like a river, giving off a foul stench.

The more disturbing thing was that the condition of the corpses was also not normal.

They were all horribly and cruelly mutilated.

Some had all their bones and flesh removed as if for dissection, while others were just randomly slashed, and some had all their internal organs removed.

The more surprising fact was that all the things seen so far were the corpses of monsters.

Even Stafford himself, who was praised as one of the Nine Heavens, could not handle all of these monsters.

That was why he sometimes helped with the subjugation, but could not completely subjugate them because he could not deal with all of them.

Unless all of them were dealt with at once, these monsters would quickly reproduce with their terrifyingly strong reproductive power and regain their original power, attacking those who were tired.

“Did someone kill them all? This number… it would be impossible unless most of them were subjugated…”

The traces of battle were terrible.

Having fought them before, he knew. How terrible these monsters of this land were.

Armed with endless hostility and killing intent, they attack everything that is not their own kind.

No matter how many died, it was as if they lacked fear, and if one died, two more would rush in. He had also been injured quite a few times by their endless, death-defying attacks.

Moreover, each individual was strong enough to be considered a B-rank threat, so they were a very troublesome bunch. He could understand why this world had been destroyed because it couldn’t stop them.

But not only were these creatures dead so miserably…

“…They were trying to escape? These crazy monsters?”

They even felt fear.

Judging from the traces, these monsters faced only one opponent. It was still unknown whether it was one person or one entity…

Just what kind of monstrous strength did it have to instill fear in these monsters?

And one more thing.

If the monsters had suffered this much damage, if only the monsters had been damaged, information would have come this way. Very reliable veterans were working skillfully here.

But… there had been no communication so far, not even a small contact.

“…Are you watching? Please send the coordinates. I need to go to their hideout.”

Although the survivors’ hideout, which constantly changed locations to avoid being killed by monsters, the coordinates are constantly received. Support is needed.

Anyway, the dimensional phenomenon management agency, having seen this enemy, but feeling that it was terrible to call it an enemy, immediately sent the coordinates without complaint…

When Stafford arrived at the hideout, he couldn’t help but close his eyes tightly as the worst-case scenario he had expected unfolded.

“Annihilation… huh…”

As they had expected… there was a big reason why there was no contact.

The terrible reason of the massacre of all the survivors…!

From Earth’s point of view, it was a loss of a strong ally, and for Stafford, it was a loss of friends and strong collaborators.

Stafford, who closed the eyes of those who couldn’t close their eyes one by one, paid his respects with a moment of silence, called for support to take care of them, and went outside.

“Who the hell did such a terrible thing…!”

The sight of the dead, as terrible as the dead monsters, was enough fuel to ignite a hot anger in the knight’s heart.

At the moment he was about to start searching to get revenge right away,

“What…?!”

At the same time as feeling a strange sensation, the old knight couldn’t help but be shocked when he felt a shock that resonated throughout the continent.