"Of course, every nation has its own classified divisions for handling the unnatural, like Area 21 in the U.S. Our country has something similar. In fact, we once captured an enormous shark that we believed to be a megalodon. Tracking and subduing it cost us thousands of lives; it took years and several casualties. And yet, we still didn’t grasp what we were truly dealing with."
The Commander General let out a heavy sigh.
"In hindsight, all the signs were there. But we didn’t understand the magnitude of the threat... and we kept it hidden from the public."
And so, everyone slowly began to realize that the apocalypse hadn’t arrived out of nowhere. The signs had been there all along. But with governments across the world working to suppress news of the unnatural events and growing anomalies, no one truly understood what was coming... until it was too late.
Kisha, too, felt a deep certainty settle in her chest. This was the beginning. And judging by the reactions of the Gods watching her from above, it seemed they had known all along. They had simply been waiting for Earth to begin its struggle.
[The Goddess of Wisdom cheers you on, remarking that countless people had already recorded the world’s abnormalities in writing—but most dismissed them as myths, hearsay, or the ramblings of madmen.]
[The God of Strategy and Warfare smirks, amused. "Humans are so eager to wage war among themselves," he muses, "yet they fail to recognize the true threat until it’s far too late."]
[The God of Mischief and Deception cackles, finding delight in how humanity is only now beginning to piece the truth together, when the wheels of fate have already been set in motion, and there’s no turning back.]
’What was about to happen?’ Kisha wondered, her eyes staring blankly into the air.
The Commander General, watching her closely, assumed she was simply overwhelmed by the revelations, that she was silently processing the weight of everything they had just discussed. But he was wrong. Kisha’s mind was elsewhere, lost in deeper, darker thoughts.
Based on what she had seen of the Gods’ reactions, one thing was becoming disturbingly clear: the virus wasn’t a mere accident. It had been deliberately placed on Earth long ago, just waiting for the right moment to awaken.
Just like the extinction of the dinosaurs, this virus could be the tool of a new cleansing. Perhaps the Gods intended to wipe out humanity, to reset the world once again, and allow a new, more deserving species to rise to dominance.
But why?
Was it because humans had brought nothing but destruction to the planet? Had the Gods finally lost faith in mankind and decided to end them... to give another species a chance to thrive and take the top of the pyramid?
And since she was the one with the system, she’s become the only one who might be able to stop this catastrophe. Was that the reason the Gods were targeting her? To prevent her from saving humanity?
But that didn’t make sense.
If the Gods didn’t want her to interfere, then why give her the system in the first place? Why assign her missions that were clearly focused on saving lives and delaying the fall of humanity?
If they truly wanted the world to end, wouldn’t it have been faster to make her the ’Destroyer’ instead? Someone who could hasten the apocalypse and ensure mankind’s extinction without hope or resistance?
Or was it all just a game to them? Was this struggle for survival nothing more than divine entertainment, watching humans fight fate, cling to hope, and flail in the face of annihilation?
Then what about her ability to reincarnate, again and again?
No matter how much she tried to reason it out, something deep inside her kept whispering, ’It’s more than that... You haven’t uncovered the real truth yet.’
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