38 Chapter 37 (2/2)
”That is fine. Rather than apologies, I want to know what happened to the world while I was trapped on that island.” Leon said.
”Right… where to start. Well, before anything, you can call me Ren.” The captain massaged his forehead while he recalled the events of the previous four years.
Although Ren's focused on things that happened to Japan, he was very knowledgeable about what happened around the world. Just like Leon thought, suddenly, during the dawn of a particular day, monsters started to appear everywhere for unknown reasons. Small monsters killed humans in droves, while the big ones like dragons destroyed massive buildings and structures. As if their actions were planned, they destroyed telecommunication centers and everything related to the executive power of most countries. In just a few hours, presidents, kings, and many other figures that had a lot of political power died, and those who survived lost their means of communication.
”Just like you said, dragons attacked airplanes in midair, and they also attacked airports,” Ren explained. ”You managed to react in time to survive such things, but you are the first person that I heard that survived that. Anyway, Dragons dominated the skies and Megalodons the seas. Swarms of those monsters destroyed the fleet of the most powerful countries, and since the chain of command had been lost very soon, no one managed to react.”
”… And that makes me wonder how you people can use a port.” Leon said.
”As you can imagine, now and then, a megalodon attacks our port and destroys our ships,” Ren explained. ”But although we rarely kill them, we have the power to make them run and the skills to build ships quite fast due to the fact that monsters now can drops tomes.”
Leon nodded; even though those skills had some severe limitations, it was much more efficient than learning alone. If one could learn how to control trees, building ships wouldn't be much of a problem.
Anyway, just on the first-day, humans lost the power to communicate over long distances and the power to move fast. Governments didn't manage to do anything, but some individuals managed to obtain the power to use nukes… when Leon heard that, he clearly imagined that many people who fought to survive died by the hands of those who used nukes.
”… How many of those were used in my country?” Leon asked while biting his nails. ”Where were those used?”
”Since that kind of information could tell how weakened a country was, I can't say for sure…” Ren hesitated. ”This is confidential information, but a few spies confirmed that at least twenty had been used… the locations… I can't give that information.”
When Leon heard that, he felt his heart grow cold. Twenty nukes had been used, which meant they had destroyed twenty cities. The number of deaths caused by that could easily surpass dozen of millions of casualties.
Leon wanted to confirm if his hometown was fine, but he couldn't force Ren to tell more. He could only pray that Phoenix was right. After that, Ren explained that earthquakes and tsunamis became commonplace, and sometimes those earthquakes would form dungeons connecting earth to various worlds filled with monsters and chaos.
When Leon heard that, he recalled the earthquake and the tsunamis of three years ago. Most likely, that earthquake opened a path to another world, but since the dungeon was probably underwater, no human would ever explore. Not at least until the Megalodons, become extinct again.