That was it.
It was over.
The era would end.
Nick checked in with the Sun every fifty years or so, which was why he had missed the initial announcement.
'As expected,' Nick thought as he took a deep breath. 'The Champion is too old, and allowing a new Champion to rise probably costs too much Zephyx.'
'They have to make the new Champion into a Savior, and that has to be expensive.'
'They don't want to make a new Champion just so they could harvest Zephyx for a couple more centuries.'
'The era will end before the Champion dies or shortly after.'
The era had gone on for longer than Nick had predicted.
He had anticipated that it would end a thousand years earlier, but that was not the case.
'The aliens really want to squeeze as much Zephyx out of Earth as possible.'
Nick didn't know it, but the reason why the era had gone on for so long was the Representatives of the Mother.
They needed more Zephyx.
The Strategists wanted to end the era earlier to make sure that there were no hidden threats like back then, with the Enlightened Ones.
'It is time to prepare things,' Nick thought.
He looked at the underground city.
'I made this city in hopes that it could fight against the aliens.'
'But that was never going to happen.'
'Now, I have to make sure that the city vanishes.'
Naturally, when the era reset, it was possible that the aliens would find this city.
Nick didn't know all the functions of the Sun, but during an era reset, the Sun might find the city.
As Nick looked at the city, he felt pressure deep inside.
He didn't want to do it, but he had to.
For humanity.
All of this was for humanity.
For several hours, Nick just looked at the city.
Then, he took another deep breath.
A moment later, his influence washed over the city.
The people didn't notice anything and continued living as normal.
Slowly, one person after the other started to stop in the street.
They had forgotten what they wanted to do.
They started to look around in confusion.
These surroundings were unfamiliar.
Wait, where were they?
What?
Slowly, the confusion vanished as they just looked mindlessly into space.
Nick had erased all the memories of their lives.
Only their instincts remained.
Then, Nick deleted those as well.
All of the people in the underground city collapsed.
They were all brain-dead.
The few young mortals couldn't breathe anymore and silently asphyxiated.
As for the older ones, they could still survive since their Zephosis worked automatically.
The underground city had fallen deathly silent.
Nick had killed everyone in the underground city.
It felt horrible.
The underground city was essentially his baby.
This was the world he had created.
And now, he had destroyed it.
'For humanity,' Nick thought as he closed his eyes.
The next moment, Nick used his telekinesis to crush all corpses into powder.
It was over.
Everyone was dead.
Nick took a long while to recover.
Eventually, he walked to the Archive and deleted everything in it.
Then, he accessed every single machine in the underground city and wiped all the functions from them.
He carefully destroyed every machine after that.
When all the information was deleted, Nick built a storage for the Zephyx, which the city contained, and buried it deep underground.
Finally, Nick crushed the entire city into a tiny ball with his telekinesis.
He stopped in front of the tiny ball and summoned a Star Energy generator.
After putting a drop of Star Energy on the ball, it turned into a burst of white dust.
Nick funneled the Star Energy into a Pure Energy generator to create Pure Energy.
The Pure Energy was released into the surroundings, turning the rocks incredibly hard.
Finally, Nick crushed all of the rocks into dust and scattered the dust across the world.
All of this had been necessary since he didn't know what would happen when the era reset.
What if the Sun used some kind of ability to siphon Zephyx out of materials?
In that case, it would find the ball.
However, if Nick just turned the ball into Star Energy, it might change the equilibrium of Prephyx in the world.
Because of that, he had simply created Pure Energy and put it into random stones.
This was the only way it couldn't be sensed.
As Nick looked at the empty space in front of him, his heart shook.
He expected to see the underground city that he had built, but it was no longer there.
When he dealt with the underground city, he was almost mechanical.
He wasn't thinking.
He just did it.
'It's hard to believe that it's gone.'
Nick remembered Ghosty and the first researchers.
Back then, they had simply been in a small underground lab.
Eventually, Nick had created an entire city, which had taken him almost two entire decades back then.
Nick remembered Aria and how she had led the city before Samar took over as the Chancelor.
Ghosty, Aria, Samar, Giovanni, the researchers…
They had all worked together to free humanity.
This had been their home.
Their base.
Their hope.
And now, it was gone.
The next moment, Nick looked at the distant Champion in his office.
'He is the last one.'
'The last human who knows me.'
'All the other ones are just faintly familiar with the concept of the Trickster.'
'He's the last one I actually talked to regularly.'
The Left Arm, the Right Arm, the Technician, the Knife, the Wall, the Politician, the old Champion, the Inferno, the Ice Storm, the new Right Arm, Aria, Samar, Ghosty, the Tinkerer, Wyntor, Julian, Trevor, Jenny, Hera, Marion, Markus Julius, Simon Francium, William, Pavelka, Mundus, Ariel, Zarren, Mendez, Mindy, Cindy, Jornis, Vanessa, Libran, Vernon, Manela, Reynold, Ardum, Carl, Irwin, Clayton, Petra, Jason, Cynthia, Mendor, Steve, Shirley…
Nick had been in contact with all of them several times.
Not everyone had been a friend, but they were people Nick had known and talked to.
All of them.
Every single one of them.
Was dead.
Nick looked at the Champion.
The last one.
He remembered working with the Champion to deal with Greed, the Envious Researcher, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, and Lust.
They had worked together very closely.
But soon…
Even the Champion would vanish.
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