Return of the last survivor - Chapter 102

‘Seeing that the cryo-room was still intact, nothing too bad should have happened’, though Merlin as he walked out of the room.

However, things did in fact disappoint him. As soon as the mana burst happened, most of the peak Tier 2 individuals, and peak Tier 1 individuals went into stasis to evolve. This included the one being who held up the entire nation on his data-structures; Philip.

Furthermore, most of the non-governmental organisations had their leaders and close subordinates go into sleep as well, which allowed for chaos to resume its rule within the now half-destroyed nation of Cayden.

Merlin felt crest-fallen for a few minutes as he stared at the chaos ensuing in front of his eyes. Buildings were burning, Puppets were broken or shut down, with some malfunctioning, and a handful of them being kept working by some of Phillip’s children who did not go into evolving.

Dead bodies littered the ground, and Merlin could see that some peak Tier 2s were mixed in.

The pain he was feeling at having so many things being destroyed slowly began to rose. Suddenly, Merlin felt a spark ignite within him. It was the spark of rage caused by the loss of so much of his hard work.

Merlin’s heart raced as his rage began boiling within his mind. Unknowingly, he began emanating the aura of a Tier 3, causing gales to emanate outward as the air around him began to rise in temperature.

His aura spread quickly through the land and air around him. Since the Earth had just barely completely changed to a world that can support a Tier 3 being’s power, Merlin unknowingly releasing his power began to cause the rules of the plane to be affected as well.

Naturally, no being other than Earth, or Gaia by Arcania, felt these effects to such an extent.

“Master! Please control yourself. Wait for at least another hour before you kill people using your full power. I cannot support you power since I just recently evolved!”

The aged voice of Gaia, a.k.a. Earth’s planer will, echoed in Merlin’s mind, and slowly began to calm him down.

However, Merlin had simply stopped emanating his aura, but was still just as angry as before, if not more.

Taking heavy steps, Merlin rose to the air and looked around as he spotted some people who were destroying things in a hurry a little distance away.

Without another thought, Merlin glared at the, releasing a peak Tier 2 spell [Infernal Blast], however, he also used many other spells to compress and direct the blast attack into that of a beam, and instantly killed off the 12 people in the group without hesitation.

Without wasting any more time, Merlin wrote some runes on the empty space in front of him before activating these runes created purely from mana.

Suddenly, every screen still working in the entire nation lit up all at once, displaying Merlin’s calm face.

A man who was maniacally laughing moments ago as though he as the villain of some stupid anime, froze at this scene.

“Everyone shut the fuck up and get into your houses. Anyone remaining on the streets after the next 3 minutes will be killed on the spot. If your house is destroyed, go to the nearest base and wait there until I kill off the rest of the assholes who are fucking Cayden up. To those fucking buggers who started all this, I will find you, and when I do, I will rip you to pieces and burn you over the fire created from lighting your family members on fire. No one will be spared.”

Anger had not only filled Merlin’s heart, but also the author’s, and so the author decided to leave the words uncensored.

At these words, the man who was laughing completely stiffened as his body become frozen in a rather odd-looking pose. Cold seat filled his back and forehead as he comprehended what had happened.

‘Bulls**t! I don’t comprehend anything! I don’t get it! What happened!!?? Why did I kill boss?!’ thought the man as he cursed in his heart.

He too, did not know why he did what he had done.

One moment, he was preparing for the beast tide, the next the mana burst cam and the boss decided to evolve immediately. As soon as the boss fainted, he blacked out, and when he came to his senses, he was already stuck in this situation.

As Merlin waited for the 3 minutes to complete, he tried to contact as many people as he could.

Foveros, Mecha, Cortana, and most of his trusted subordinates had gone to evolve, thankfully, they had gone to the various cryo-chambers in the bases of the army, where the army members who did not evolve protected them along with the remnant puppets controlled by the few un-evolved children of Phillip.

Time passed and the given 3 minutes were up, and the laws of the plane had significantly strengthened, allowing Merlin to use more strength than a few minutes ago.

Merlin extended his senses all across the nation, and pin-pointed all humans, beasts, and zombies present. He then lifted his hands into the air gathering a rather significant portion of his mana, which was now already at the average level of peak Tier 3s, before using a spell.

[Mana Erosion]