The Sun shone brightly, and the people of the world looked at it with astonishment and fear.
What was going on?
Would a new Champion be born?
Sadly, that was not going to happen.
The light of the Sun touched every person in the world.
After all, the Nightmare made sure that every person was in some kind of Specter-created light.
The normal people just looked at the Sun with worry.
However, the same thing wasn't true for the Extractors.
The Heroes all over the world started to change.
First, their skin turned ashen.
Then, the pain started.
Incredible pain.
They started to scream as they felt like their bodies were being burned from the inside.
Blisters appeared all over their bodies, and the blisters burst just as quickly.
Some of the more knowledgeable ones realized what was going on.
This was something only mortals had to worry about.
This was an intense allergic reaction!
Their bodies started to fight the intruder, which was their Zephyx.
However, they were made of Zephyx.
It was like their bodies were allergic to their own blood and water!
Their Zephyx kept them from dying due to its power, but that only increased the agony.
A war raged inside their bodies as their Zephyx was attacked by their Zephyx.
Moments later, the Veterans, Experts, and Specialists suffered the same fate.
Almost all of the Extractors collapsed to the ground, writhing in pain.
It was an agonizing and slow death.
Nick watched as the entire world suffered unending pain.
Then, the Sun's light changed.
For some seconds, nothing happened.
And then, the first buildings collapsed.
Nick could see how the Zephyx was torn out of the building materials all over the world.
Megastructures collapsed, burying thousands of people under their immense weight.
Steel corroded.
Iron broke.
The people ran out of the cities to save themselves from the collapsing structures.
Containment Units broke into pieces,releasing all of the contained Specters.
The people hadn't feared the Specters for over a thousand years, but now, they feared them more than ever.
Demons, Fallen, Elders, Fanatics…
They all rampaged throughout the cities, harvesting millions of lives.
While this happened, the Heroes died one by one.
However, before the Specialists could die from the allergic reaction, they fell victim to the Demons and Fanatics.
Chaos.
The world was in chaos.
Cities that were built inside mountains were buried beneath them. Without the supporting structures, the mountains couldn't withstand such a big open space inside them.
The collapsing structures in buildings built inside a crater or ravine caused quakes that made the walls of the ravines collapse, burying the cities beneath them.
Soon, every single Specialist was dead as well. The ones who had managed to flee from the Specters fell victim to the allergic reaction.
The panicked people looked at their former cities, which were now nothing but ruins haunted by Specters.
Yet, as the last Experts and Veterans died, the Specters turned their gaze to less valuable food.
The normal people.
The Specters left the cities and attacked the normal people, who kept running away in panic.
Their instincts told them to flee into a dark cave, but if they did that, they would be attacked by the Nightmare.
They were forced to stay in the open, visible to all of the powerful Specters who wanted to kill them.
Within less than a minute, over 50% of the world's population died.
Most of them died in their own collapsing cities.
The level two Extractors were still suffering and couldn't move.
Their bodies still relied on food, oxygen, and water to survive.
Yet, they couldn't stop their Zephyx Synchronizer from gathering more Zephyx.
Within ten minutes, over 95% of them died to the freed Specters.
The remainder would die a slow and grueling death over the next days.
The people scattered like panicked rabbits across the world, running through the wilderness.
Nick did his best not to show his true emotions.
It was painful to witness.
There was not a single human in the world who wasn't suffering immensely at this very moment.
The Newbies were suffering burns over their bodies, but they could still move.
Sadly, they couldn't use their Zephyx.
Some of the smarter Newbies cut their Zephyx Synchronizers out, allowing them to survive.
At least, they wouldn't die from the allergic reaction.
The Specters were still a real concern.
How many Specters did humanity own?
Hundreds of thousands, and that didn't include the millions of Hatchlings.
Within an hour, 80% of the world's population died.
After six hours, 95% of the world population died.
The world used to have about 500 million people.
Now, there were fewer than 25 million left.
And yet, this still wasn't the end.
Without Extractors to fight them, the Specters wouldn't stop.
Death, War, and Pestilence had also been freed.
As soon as Death was freed, it eradicated all life from the Great Triangle.
Its black cloak stretched across the continent, consuming every single bit of life.
When the Great Triangle had been turned into a wasteland, it stretched to the Long Continent.
But then, Death suddenly vanished.
The black cloak turned into black dust, which scattered across the world.
The Sun had destroyed Death since it was killing too many humans.
The other Adversaries kept themselves in check and didn't cause too much destruction, relatively speaking.
Three days passed.
99.9% of the population had been eradicated.
The Great Triangle, the Southern Continent, the Desolate Continent, and the War Continent had been completely cleansed of life.
The Long Continent had fewer than 100,000 people.
The Grand Continent had about 300,000 people left.
The people were starving.
There was no food anywhere, and they feared the Specters,which were still roaming around the wilderness.
Finally, the Sun's light changed again.
Nick could feel a pulse traveling throughout the world.
Then, a gigantic cloud of black dust rose from the ground.
Every single Specter that had been outside the isolated space the Sun had created for its servants had been killed.
Well, not every Specter.
The Pure One was still alive since he had been isolated by the Enlightened Ones.
Naturally, the Nightmare and the Null were also still alive.
But that was it.
These were all of the Specters who had survived.
Every single other Specter, including the Hatchlings, had been turned into Zephyx, which was then harvested by the Sun.
For the next few days, the humans would continue fearing the outside.
After all, they didn't know that there were no more Specters.
For years, they would live in fear and isolation.
The few of them who managed to find food would survive and congregate.
The era had been reset.
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