Apocalypse: Infinite Breaker Online-Chapter 63: Fickleness of New World
11:03 PM
Just two minutes ago, at six different locations, Axir and the others had contained fifteen people who were suddenly releasing poisonous substances into the air that caused intense itching on the skin, rapid usage of bodily fluids by creating liquid bubbles all over the skin within the first three seconds, and then melting all organs internally in the next two seconds.
It was horrific.
The town was already panicking, making it even harder to find the culprit.
[Siddha: This is bad. People are affecting fast. This is like a virus that’s spreading and waiting to be activated. Damn it!]
Siddha was currently thoroughly checking the person he had captured to find a way to trace the virus and remove it before it activated.
’No. There’s not enough time. I have to save people the other way.’ Siddha shut his senses and began meditating. ’Please help me, Lord Vishnu.’
[Robin: Damn it! Where’s the bastard doing this?]
[Axir: It’s increasing. Throw the people into the sky by making a platform of some sort! Does anyone have a card like that?]
[Ling: I got it.]
[James: Throw them into my portals.]
A large cloud began spreading above the settlement.
Soon, people began appearing there through the portals.
Everyone was moving around constantly, checking all the people while activating their Mana Fields.
Anyone they felt was affected by this horrific death virus was sent up to the cloud to prevent further spread.
But due to the number of affected people constantly increasing, it was hard.
[Sakamoto: The spread... should we save those who aren’t affected?]
[Maria: The numbers are still too high. I can’t trace the virus since it is not in the domain of darkness, but death.]
[James: Do both. Make another cloud, Ling.]
[Ling: Done.]
[Robin: The spread is too fast, damn it! And they can activate at any time.]
’We have to find the culprit amidst all this fast before something more happens, or find a way to mass-cure people. Damn it, if only I had that card.’ Axir was hyper-focused, trying to process information to trace the culprit.
He found a presence moving underground, and it was only one, so he checked it, but there was no one there.
’Did the culprit already escape? Fucking hell.’
...
’Those assholes! Activate the formation now! Connect the pawns and light them up before they start reducing the number of people!’
The devil screamed in Raul’s mind as Axir and the others began separating and saving people.
Five kilometers beneath the ground, where no one could trace them and their traces vanished halfway, Raul was inside a cave thanks to the Earthburrow Travel card he had luckily gotten from an Earthbuzz Worm.
’Roger. Let’s start the party.’
In different parts of the big town, several people suddenly lit up with intense bluish-green neon light.
In an instant, they turned into puddles and spread fast, connecting to each other in the shape of a circular formation covering the town.
Axir and the others had just registered the formation when it began.
Those who were affected inside were instantly activated.
People exploded into strange green mist that spread to others.
[You have been affected by Blighted Death Mist.]
Axir and the others were also instantly affected.
The situation had just become the worst-case scenario. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
But then something happened.
Siddha appeared in the center of the town, floating mid-air in a cross-legged position.
[ You have acquired an Inspiration. Lord Vishnu commends the sheer intensity of focus you displayed. ]
A card manifested as Siddha selected an option instantly.
A lotus bloomed in the sky, raining pink-golden petals.
[ Lotus of Brilliant Purification — Prime 3-star. ]
Before the petals even touched the ground, the formation was already dissolving due to the purification power they radiated through their golden-pink brilliance.
People were being cured instantly as the virus within them was purified.
[Siddha: People are safe now. Find the demon who did this.]
...
’What?!’ Raul’s eyes widened. ’They stopped it! I—I can’t connect to any of the Blight Dolls!’
’Tsk. Fucking gods. One of those players up there used a card that purified all of them. We lost. Now you’d better get the hell out of here before they find you.’
’What about my reward?!’ Raul frowned.
’Only 649 people died, moron. We needed 10,000. Well, 649 can still give you 6,490 Despair Coins. First, get out of here, then we’ll access the Despair Card Store to buy new cards. We’ll have to come up with a new method to do mass sacrifice, hehe.’
’As long as this wasn’t a complete waste.’ Raul snorted and left using Earthburrow Travel, getting away from the settlement.
’Find the next settlement and start living there. You will be able to log in soon, so we’ll have to make sure you become stronger in those 12 hours.’
On the other hand, Axir and the others left after five minutes.
All the people of the settlement were safe.
God Ra personally manifested in front of all the people and blessed them.
Although not all people survived, the majority still did as they successfully averted the disaster.
Since Siddha did the main work of saving everyone after the demon activated the formation, which claimed four hundred lives in mere seconds—
If not for that purification, the death toll would have easily crossed 10,000.
Due to that, Siddha acquired the Divine Epiphany from God Ra.
’Vishnu, the Preserver. It makes sense he has purification powers.’
Axir sighed as he returned to the mansion and dipped into the pond.
’Fuck.’ Axir sighed again. He looked at the time. ’I couldn’t do much.’
Twenty-three more minutes until he could log in again.
’That was just one person who acquired the means of a devil and was about to kill twenty thousand people.’
’How many of them are there, and how many more will bloom from now on?’ Axir clenched his fist. ’What if I am in the game and some lunatic comes here and lays waste to the settlement, hurting Mio and many others who aren’t logged in?’
’The price of lives is also more fickle in this new world... and it just became much harder to protect lives.’
