One-way traffic

"Then... what about the telescope we got from the goblin chariot?!"

"We can't take that with us! We'll leave it here!"

Boom! The riot continued in the mountains.

People had no time to escape and could only watch as countless rubble gradually swallowed up their hometown.

--but.

Suddenly, Rick spotted a figure that shouldn't be there.

"Varied…?!"

Inside the cave that was about to collapse, a little child fell down.

The young girl had large, light blue eyes.

She fell into the flooded cave, clutching something tightly in her hand.

"Nonna...?"

After regaining his senses, Rick jumped down like lightning.

Thump! Ignoring the pain from his feet landing so hard, he ran quickly to the girl's front.

"What are you doing? Didn't I tell you to evacuate?! Why are you still staying in this place?!"

He shouted as if he had exploded.

The girl named Nona was the daughter entrusted to her care by a man named Ivan in the past.

But that man was already dead.

…He was ordered by himself to go and die.

No matter what constraints he had faced before, Rick could no longer maintain that cold demeanor.

The last request of the man who entrusted his family to him in the past, the man who is now dead.

He wanted to ensure the safety of his family.

"Found it..."

"Found what...?"

Rick looked tremblingly at what Nona was holding.

A doll.

It's very possible that the girl ran all the way back for this reason, risking such danger to retrieve it from the ruins.

"This is... what Dad made for me back then..."

Upon closer inspection, something was slowly dripping into the ditch beneath the girl.

Nona sobbed, speaking through her tears.

"This is...the last thing Dad left for Nona...I can't...I can't let it disappear!!!"

Rick stood there, speechless.

"Rick! No! The ceiling over there is going to collapse—!!!"

Behind him, he heard the voices of Cole and Shubi, and only then did he realize that the rocks above were about to fall.

Rick gritted his teeth, grabbed Nona's hand, and abruptly stepped back.

but.

It's too late.

Boom! A missile landed, and the rocks were about to engulf everyone below.

There is no hope.

Human settlements, today, are right here.

It has been officially declared extinct.

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…No.

wrong.

—What arrives even faster than destruction is the whiteness that even the end of the world fears.

boom! ! ! !

Immediately afterwards, all the rocks that should have collapsed were stopped.

Under the watchful eyes of Rick and Nona—and everyone else.

A strong wind arose.

Within that wind, a shadow with wind-spraying wings was suspended.

What?

Rick quickly hugged Nona tightly with one hand and shielded his eyes with the other.

It can only be vaguely seen.

Like a human figure, speeding through the storm—

A white-haired, red-eyed monster.

"..."

The person in white silently glared at himself.

He blew all the rocks away, and then flew out of the cave in a way that was invisible to the naked eye.

The next moment.

Right in the center of the battlefield where the goblin and dragon spirits clashed.

—The savior of the apocalypse fell like a meteorite.

Chapter 555 White Nightmare

There is no such thing as a natural disaster for either the goblin or dragon elf forces.

Even the weakest race in this world possesses power far exceeding that of natural climate. Even if a so-called natural disaster occurs, it will not affect them in the slightest. Rather, they are the very embodiment of disaster, and they are the greatest source of panic in the world.

And today.

—They finally understood what the word "natural disaster" truly meant.

This is the first time I've truly understood it.

boom! ! ! !

Without any warning, it reached its peak right from the start.

A natural disaster struck this place.

He descended from the sky like a hurricane, at a speed far exceeding the speed at which the two formations came into contact with each other.

It instantly tore apart everything around it.

boom----! ! !

Gale-force winds and bursts of light exploded in their ears.

"Wha, what?"

"Captain! The fleet has been attacked by an unusual energy... and has been forced back 500 meters!"

The goblin captain, sitting inside the warship, wore an unexpected expression.

Something appeared ahead, within 500 meters of the fleet.

"What…?"

The dragon spirit troops reacted in the same way, staring intently at the center of the dust, unable to imagine what could be preventing their battle.

A few seconds later, the dust in the center area gradually dispersed.

The fleet immediately began using high-level analytical instruments to identify the shadow, and the dragon spirits did the same. Some of them used their superior eyesight to confirm, while others used the unique magic of the dragon species to identify the other party.

Thus, both sides completed the analysis in less than one tenth of a second.

Therefore.

They couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"...It's malfunctioning, isn't it?"

"Captain, it's not just our warships; the entire fleet's detection results are the same as ours!"

The goblin leader looked at the data and information displayed on the big screen, as well as the image of the shadow.

The dragons of the dragon spirit race repeatedly used detection magic and their own eyes to confirm their findings, yet they still couldn't believe the conclusions they had reached.

That ahead—

The entity that appeared ahead, ending the war between the two factions, was—

"How could it possibly be human—?!!"

As the dust settled, the figure, unharmed despite being directly attacked by both factions, remained suspended in mid-air.

White hair, red eyes, wearing a white and gray striped shirt and grayish trousers.

And the electrodes on its neck, gleaming with a bright green light, as dazzling as shackles.

Whether it was the instrumental analysis of the goblin race or the magical analysis of the dragon race, everything indicated that the figure appearing before them was human.

Why would humans appear in a place like this? Why would humans be able to appear on a battlefield of this caliber?

It's unbelievable that he can even fly in the sky, let alone get involved—

boom! !

Various ideas had just begun to surface.

The sound came from above the goblin fleet.

BOOM! Then, the spaceship deck, which was countless times harder than steel, was torn apart from the front by something.

Where did that shadow that was in the very center of the battlefield go?

When I came to my senses and looked at the big screen again, there was nothing there anymore.

Where did that human who should have been safely suspended in mid-air go?

The answer is simple.

In less than a second, all sorts of sounds began to emanate from inside the warship.

"What—? You, what do you want to do—Puwaa ...

"Mere humans... How could this be? How could this be—Waaaaaah—"

"Don't come any closer...don't come any closer! I'll tell you, you filthy insect, stay away from me!!!"

Am I having a nightmare?

The goblin captain stood there in a daze, while a series of screams from other fleets kept coming through the communication device.

"Hi."

An unfamiliar voice came over the loudspeaker.

Dry, indistinguishable timbre, leaning towards somber and magnetic.

It sounded like something out of a nightmare.

"I see that you don't care about the safety of ordinary people at all. Oh well, you're not human anyway. But that's fine."

"—This way, I can have an even better reason to send you all to hell, right? That makes sense, doesn't it?"

boom----! ! ! !

In the end, they couldn't even see what the thing actually was.

The endlessly spreading crimson flames completely engulfed the interior of the entire warship.