537 [Bonus chapter] Trying Everything I Can
But I was too busy dealing with things here. The situation was getting any better even with all my boys trying their best.
“Ah, there is a voice option… Interesting!”
I found in the big list of options to control this room a choice to send a voice recording. I didn’t hesitate to use it at once.
And as usual, I had to pay one million coins to just send a voice recording to the entire room.
“Listen up, I’m not in the middle of fighting against this disaster so I had little time. But I can tell you this, as long as you can see the pillar, then you will get hit by its aftermath…”
I heard a loud rumble coming from the direction of that pillar. Mentioning the devil, the devil made a move! I could see a second series of waves getting birth and coming towards here.
My boys just broke a hole in three waves so far. There were still seven remaining. At such a rate, they wouldn’t get this done before the next series of waves would link.
And if this continued, then in the end we would face a connected series of waves linked to the pillar.
That wouldn’t bode well. I had to think about anything else to solve this disaster.
“The pillars hitting the water surface will create series waves of devastating tsunamis. If they hit earth, then shattering earthquakes followed by violent volcanoes will erupt at your location. If you are near any of these, then search for a tall place and stand at, preferably a mountain. Leave cities, and towns, go as far away as possible, as fast as you can, without even looking back. This wave of attacks will last for almost five hours then it will settle down. The aftermath will last forever, especially with the merge of the alien worlds with us.”
As I finished talking, I selected to send this recording to the room before finally closing it.
I had to sort out my sh*t first before going out to help others.
“Now… What shall I do here?” I looked at the mighty waves that were moving unhindered towards the lands.
The waves that got hit already showed an obvious decrease in height compared to others behind. That made the world here look like a staircase, with each wave being higher than the one in front of it and lower than the one behind.
Just now my boys pierced a hole in the fourth wave. Good! Now four were down and six remained.
But far behind all this, another series of waves were coming at here. I counted twenty or something waves there. That meant with each rumble, the pillar would release more waves.
This couldn’t continue or else I wouldn’t be able to do anything.
However, thinking about stopping the pillar itself was impossible. This pillar had energy coming from another world. It couldn’t be stopped by any force on Earth, not even by me.
“So…” I started to think about my options here. I thought about everything I had, even quickly checking my inventory. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
It was… A total mess inside my inventory. But I had at least one thing that could delay and help.
“Thundering Might!” I held my pillar with my right hand, and used the mighty skill of it.
It was a defensive one that would create a shield around my place. It was also one that would continue absorbing energy from the world, strengthening and repairing the shield while doing this.
*Rumble!*
The pillar broke free from my hand, expanded to connect heaven with the water surface before a big shield appeared around me.
It spanned for ten miles around, pushing the waves all of sudden and prevented them from moving forward.
“It’s working… No it isn’t!” At first glance, things seemed to be going towards the result I wanted.
The shield managed to sustain the pressure coming from these waves. Faint cracks spread all over it, but they were healed in the next seconds thanks to the energy absorbed from this part of the world here.
As this pillar of green light came down, the level of energy in this zone got elevated and became more dense than before.
Yet when I looked closer, I saw that the shield didn’t actually stop the waves. It just delayed their advance, making them merge together into a much mightier wave that started to circle around my shield, covering it up.
My shield was already covering a big area, but the waves coming were spanning over a much wider area than my shield.
It looked like I held a ball and pushed it through a thick curtain. The curtain wouldn’t be pushed back, and its mattress would only circle around my ball until it covered it wholly.
Then the waves would continue marching forward like nothing happened! Not even a single hole would be left by my shield.
Damn! Should I try to repeatedly use my pillar? Linking the shield together with the one at the capital? Should I start roaming my kingdom and use the skill to create shields there?
What about the areas that were void of any city or town? What about the crops fields that I just created?
If I went towards such a solution, then my kingdom would end up like islands in the middle of ragging ocean waves. It wouldn’t be a kingdom anymore. And everything I did here would be pointless!
So even with my pillar, the Hector race artefact, I couldn’t make things better. In fact, I made it worse!
“It’s not working… Next…”
I didn’t lose hope and started to search inside my inventory for anything that might help. But the more I searched, the more depressed I became.
Until I finally found something that attracted my attention. It wasn’t inside my inventory, but it was something that I owned and could use to change the situation here…
“Hopefully… This might work!”
I took out my glaive, used its sharp edge to create a deep wound at my left hand before I started to draw a circle and write a word in its centre; Portal!