45 Mayhem? Beneath us! (1/2)
Even though Call me Daddy 2 was the on omen for bad news, his message was received with a cry of happiness. The Gods have spoken to them, delivering joyous news, The monsters will soon be no more. Their victory is imminent. All their fallen comrades will be avenged, they do not have to fear for their lives anymore.
They were glad that the Gods blessed them. Their gift, the magic in this world enabled them to fight back and vanquish this abhorrent evil.
When this world is finally free of monsters everything is going to be perfect. No mothers have to cry about sending their children off into war, only to see them never again. Praise be to heavens for their trust in us.
People started to celebrate and dance around wildly in the streets. Poor or rich everybody was the same upon hearing this news. A gigantic burden has left their shoulders, the looming threat over their heads is going to disappear soon. Most of them could not even grasp how far the current extent was. The news alone was enough for this period of pure extasy.
Each and every road got decorated. Young or old, sick or healthy, everybody dressed up for this occasion. They hugged each other and tears of joy began to pour down their faces. Those festivals continued into the deep of the night all over the World.
Not a single one did take a look at the whole message, in their eyes, it was the word victory that erased any logical thinking. For them, it was all that matters, after all, they are Chosen. The Gods want a world that is free of evil, a just and pure world. And with each killed monster they are coming closer and closer to this ideal world.
After having lost all their worries, why would they willingly go back to their old horrendous life? After this time of pure darkness, the light is just that enticing. The light promised an ideal world, devoid of all this pain and suffering there was no need for sacrifices any more. Every sane person of this world would never give up on that little piece of heaven.
This utopia is going to become reality soon after all their Gods made a promise and the words of Gods are to be trusted. The thought of people faking the message of the Gods never crossed their mind. Blaspheming the mighty Gods was something that was never even considered in the first place.
Even the mighty Church declared Call Me Daddy 2 as a prophet and vowed to increase their effort to eradicate the filth. They all kept their eyes on the promise of victory. Every single warrior increased their effort and nearly doubled their training, they all wanted to do their part to accomplish it. This world did not have a phase like this for a very long time.
This wave of vigour swept over every nook and cranny and even the world of ”Primal Survival” was not spared from the increased commitment. The monsters were killed left and right, this process repeated itself over and over again. For them this was no place to train, it was a breeding ground to prepare for the vanquishment of monsters. If they died, the just went back and fought again. They explored seeking stronger monsters and more challenges. They wanted to prove their worth, to be able to kill each and every monster.
Those poor monsters did not stand any chance under the bombardment of magic, they had no choice but to die over and over again. The title was no longer fitting, at least for the Players. It became a gigantic house of slaughter. Boredom was nowhere to be found. Though there were still some people, who were searching for something in this world other than the thrill of slaughter.
As the time passed, so did the attention on the rumour of that strange entity. Fewer and fewer people kept on searching after that predator. Even though it looked promising to fight, they would not waste their time, searching for something that may or may not exist. If it does exist, some player will find it sooner or later anyway.
So they continued their training session and lit up yet another war-pig. Just as the bugboy, the mutated Nagants disappeared as well, as if they had been swallowed by the earth itself. But with enough targets to choose from, even they began to disappear out of their minds.Even though the time period was not big, everything faded.
Even though there were some rumours regarding the stability of the soil, that just collapsed underneath some players, those were quickly denounced as hoaxes and the disappearance of landscapes was deduced to just be the impact of the magic remnants in this server.
There was only a small amount of people, that were worried about the status quo, due to the sudden craze the server costs were increasing by the minute. The poor technicians had to find a way to minimize energy consumption, otherwise, they were forced to watch their hard-earned funding melt away in front of their eyes. Even after searching through all their formulas, they could find a single thing, that would be responsible for such an increasing demand for supply.If at first they only needed to add a minuscule amount of mana into the system, because the rest was self-regulating, then now they were forced to pump more and more into it to keep the world stable.
Normally mana would be changed into data and then formed into the shape the player imagines. Now the system would evaluate the impact on the surroundings and change the data to simulate the impact of the magic.The destroyed surroundings would return to its former state after a certain time frame. Magic is a near neverending supply of energy and the data in itself does not consume magic it just converts it.
That is why the current situation was that baffling to the technician, their first guess would have been that the increasing demand was caused by the staggering amount of simultaneous acts of destruction due to the players.
Though that theory was proven to be incorrect, after it still increased even though, no new players joined in. So they took the time and effort to see, a general heatmap of the percentile consumption. They still failed to pinpoint the cause. Over a period of time, each sector had a much higher percentage than the rest but that lasted only for a fleeting moment until this strange situation happened in different sectors again.
This was not just a temporary state, it was recurring change. They questioned, whether a player would not have noticed something, that was responsible for such great acts of destruction. Though not even a single player voiced something in that regard. It just did not make any sense.
They failed to wrap their heads around the thought, that even though so much more mana was needed the number of simultaneous processes was stagnating. There has to be a leak, otherwise, there was no other way. But the question is if it is a leak why would it be moving? A leak should be stationary in nature. Is the system malfunctioning?
A malfunction would mean, that the magic just accumulates inside the system which in itself can be dangerous if the players come into contact with raw magic. The system itself notices every abnormality, even if it is just a little. And we tested such an interaction beforehand and the system prevented the conglomeration of both substances. This theory was quickly dismissed, although it was possible, it was hardly likely to be the root of all the trouble.
Another side effect is that the magic somehow gets exhausted or spent. Though this train of thought is more than idiotic, after all, there is no way magic to disappear, it just changes its shape. Even the fiercest monster is unable to affect magic, it can barely utilize it. So this conclusion seems to be nothing more than bad fiction. A stupid idea, a drunk person had. Even most delusional fanatic would not be able to seriously believe in something so absurd.
They sent teams of players to scout in different players, after simulating the path of that mysterious subject. After multiple players arrived at their destination, with the highest likelihood of its appearance. Still, they did not see anything, there was no destruction visible. Everything seemed just normal. But several strange occurrences happened to several teams that left the poor technicians even more confused than before.
One team fell into a gigantic hole because the soil underneath them gave in. They found that the whole underground had been hollowed out. Another team where attacked out of nowhere but no traces of monsters or players were seen. Yet another team was devoured whole, they could not muster up any kind of resistance. They only heard a weird clattering noise, before their bodies went limb, followed by a swift death.
The loss of 3 teams baffled them, especially because nothing happened to the other teams.Even more ridiculous was that every team died to a different cause. At least now its obvious that the destruction does not take place above the surface but below it. That still does not explain, how such a thing can happen in the first place. I doubt that any monster would have a digging speed like that.Besides what kind of monster would be able to easily clear a team of players, without any of them noticing anything at all?
The strongest monster is a fucking bear and that thing is not capable of such a feat. Even if some parts are solved another question pops right up. It is a neverending chain of mysteries for those, who just wanted to celebrate the joyous news with their dearest. After sending the other teams to the places, where the other teams died. They made a strange observation, the whole barren landscape was covered in deep holes.
As time passed the unthinkable happened, those holes still remained, every onlooker could not believe what was happening right in front of them. They approached each hole with caution and peaked inside of them, to gauge how deep each of them is.