Things had started to get interesting, but Mitsuki figured it was about time to wrap it up. It had been fun to see so many unexpected developments, but with things getting this chaotic, it was starting to become clear how it would end.
Forced out of Cavern Quest, he found himself on the surface again. He was floating in the air, looking down at a completely changed world. Most of it had been overrun by the Seyla, making it more or less impossible for people to survive. The few who had stayed on the surface had almost all been infected already, and those who had just been ejected from Van’s game would soon face the same fate.
Erasing the Seyla and rebuilding humanity was possible, but it seemed like it would be an exhausting amount of work. Beyond that, Mitsuki didn’t like interfering so directly. Even if the starting parameters for a game were bad, he found no joy in fiddling with them to create an ideal world. He enjoyed watching people learn through trial and error in the midst of unfavorable conditions. That was where drama came from and what made it all worth watching.
Of course, there were some situations where no amount of struggle would be interesting to watch. Under certain circumstances, he was willing to reset things. This was one of those situations. At this point, there was no saving the world. There would be no one overturning the current status quo, no new drama to observe.
The only problem was Yogiri Takatou. As long as he was alive, those who he had killed couldn’t be brought back to life. That wasn’t a huge issue, but it was a shadow that would linger forever over Mitsuki’s dreamworld. He much preferred things to be clean and tidy if he was going to reset.
“Alexia.”
“You called, Lord Mitsuki?” The moment he spoke, Alexia was at his side.
“Things have gotten too crazy, so I’m going to end it now. Do you know where Yogiri Takatou is?” Mitsuki was functionally omnipotent, so finding out himself was well within his power, but he preferred to leave small things like this to his subordinates. It was easier for him that way.
“He is one hundred kilometers to the northwest, in the Meld Plains. Do you intend to meet with him face-to-face?”
“Yeah, I’d like to at least talk to him.” Mitsuki had guided developments to lure those who were participating in the Last Boss Quest to kill Yogiri. They might well still be trying to do so, making any action from Mitsuki unnecessary. He hadn’t been that worried about Yogiri, so that was what he had thought.
He was capable of instantly teleporting there, but a hundred kilometers didn’t seem far enough to justify it. As they started moving, the Meld Plains quickly came into view. Also known as the Crystal Plains, everything there had been transformed into crystal.
As Mitsuki made to touch down, he noticed that something had changed in the sky. As far as he could see, it was now filled with huge, spherical objects. They all seemed to be approaching him.
“What is that, a space fleet? Star forts?”
“It appears so,” Alexia replied.
If that was the case, they must have come from another world. This world didn’t have anything like space, so the concept of a spaceship or a space fortress was entirely nonexistent.
“What shall we do?” Alexia asked.
“If they’re coming for me, I’m curious to see why they’re making such a big show of it.”
The star forts began to transform. Holes opened in their sides, long cannon-like objects protruding from them. The cannons began to shine as they all pointed at Mitsuki.
It seemed like a weapon designed to unleash a stored amount of energy all at once. Even one of them seemed powerful enough to destroy an entire planet, so with this many, if they fired, there would be nothing of this world left.
“They don’t really look like weapons you’d use inside the atmosphere of a planet, do they?”
“This world does not really possess an atmosphere, though,” Alexia pointed out.
“I’ve never been hit by something like this before. Maybe I’ll see what they’ve got.”
“Please do not. I cannot imagine it harming you, but I would be most displeased to see it happen regardless.”
Despite Alexia’s request, Mitsuki couldn’t suppress his curiosity.