Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 236 - The War Of Artifacts

D'Day 100 - D'Day 200.

The 1008 Doomsday Pillars came down to earth together 100 days after the plague came. These giant tower-shaped foreign objects descended from the sky simultaneously and suddenly, without any signs nor notice.

These foreign objects were widespread in all six continents: America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica. At the same time, the terror of mutated beasts and zombies that haunted them all day and night was replaced as though it was simply an old chapter of a book. From there, a new future for mankind began.

The first ten days passed with fear, anxiety, and curiosity. Not only a few people thought that these strange pillars were an attack from extraterrestrials. This was especially experienced by explorers who entered the towers for the first time and had to experience the first challenge of the towers.

The next month was a period filled with pillar explorations. Almost everyone who had access to the pillars knew, studied, and understood the facilities that the pillars had and provided for them..

News about how the pillars that fell from the sky were able to increase the physical abilities of humans immediately spread to all corners of the Earth. The people who had previously been hiding in mountains, forests, and other remote areas to seek safety began to head to the nearest pillar. Another reason for their leave for the pillars was because of the small monsters that appeared. They were called critters, and they became the new terror of mankind.

The humans began to gather and set up small camps at the foot of the Doomsday Pillars.

The increasing difficulty of the floor challenges of the pillars, the increasing need for spirit stones, and the prospect of great facilities and prizes in completing the pillars' challenges caused the humans to begin to enter the next period.

A period known in Alex's previous life as the period of the war of artifacts.

Humans realized that spirit stones and artifacts were the most important items for them to secure their futures. When they first started to find their first artifact following the directions given by the pillar, they realized that the artifact they found was a Tier 2 artifact, that was more valuable than the artifacts that could be found in the pillars.

The humans began to race to grab as many artifacts as they possibly could. They even did not bother to hesitate to kill each other for these artifacts.

These Tier 2 artifacts became items that could bring both safety and danger to them. This was especially the case since rumor about how Tier 3 artifacts were found in this hidden place was spread. These struggles for the artifacts began to heat up even more. Humans fought each other in the name of the world's salvation or their own safety. However, it all started with the greed of the human heart.

The worst of course occurred in small cities or regions that did not have strong governmental support. With sufficient artifacts, more spirit stones, or high spirit talents, little kings began to appear from these places.

The worst conditions occurred between cities in Western Europe and Spain. The governments of France, Spain, and Italy had even fought each other, accusing each other of the incidents of attacks that killed their peak leaders.

The battle that was started with the reason of being an investigation for the sake of this injustice quickly turned into a battle over the locations of the artifacts which were located within the borders of their respective countries.

In this chaos, the pope who was elected in the Vatican City intervened, attempting to bring peace between these countries. At the same time, the European countries joined hands with Southeastern Europe, spearheaded by Germany and Greece. The movement for peace against the apocalypse immediately took shape under the flag of the Vatican.

At the end of the third month, discord appeared in the United States. Even with everything she had given her all to do, President McCord still could not prevent the split of the 50 states.

The president controlled 28 states in Western America, while in Southern state, a new power was formed with a new leader, a high-ranking general. General Max quickly gained support from 8 states in the south, especially Texas. That support was formed with the hope that an iron-armed general would be more suitable to take the lead in an emergency like this. The other 12 states had been either completely overrun by zombies or had their own respective leaders.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, a region that had always been in conflict and wars before the apocalypse suddenly had a miracle. The governments of Israel and Palestine were at peace. This conflict that existed for thousands of years ended not long after the apocalypse came. But this time, together, they faced a new threat from a sect on the east. That sect was quickly able to gather millions of supporters in the name of the Heavenly Gate.

Meanwhile, China, the country with the largest population, the country with the ability to move the world, suddenly disappeared without a trace. There was absolutely no news at all from this country for 100 days. They carried out total lockdown. Not much information was spread for the countries around China, except, of course, with Russia. The two giants were currently carrying out a grand plan.

On the other hand, Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines were countries that experienced the greatest impact due to the plague and the apocalypse's arrival. It was difficult for them to maintain their government. The disharmony of the relationship between the state and the imbalance of food, as well as the limited capacity and educators among the people, made these countries unable to survive the apocalypse.

Singapore, D'Day 90.

In the presidential palace of Singapore, a discussion that would determine Singapore's future was currently taking place.

"Esteemed Prime Minister Lee Semo, I'm sure that all of the products we carried have been checked and proven. Can we finalize this transaction?"

"Ahem," a man cleared his throat. The man who spoke next was his most trusted minister, Minister Sidao Young.

"Mr. Cahya, we really need ten million pieces of magic raisins, but added with these thousand weapons, 100,000 spirit stones are too much," Minister Sidao Young spoke out.

"Mr. Sidao, with these magic raisins, you won't have to worry about the problem of food for 600,000 Singaporeans. We can also make routine deliveries every two weeks. Also, I'm sure that with the help of 1,000 swords, the Singaporean army will finally be able to cross to Malaysia. After that, it will be easy for you to get spirit stones," Cahya spoke in response.

At this moment, even though Singapore was able to secure its citizens, with how limited land was here, this country was having difficulties in providing food without the help of the surrounding countries, and with the condition of Malaysia being cut off by the army of zombies, they were forced to accept help from neighboring countries who came from this sea.

Currently, Minister Sidao didn't have sufficient arguments to reduce the price that they offered. But before he could voice out his forced consent, Cahya spoke again, "Esteemed Prime Minister, how about I add this deal with a solution to a problem for you?"

Of course, the prime minister had often heard the word 'solution'.

Cahya continued, "We heard that tens of thousands of refugees are currently stranded at Singapore's port camps..."

The prime minister was a little annoyed at how this person in front of him was bringing up a problem of his country, which had nothing to do with this person. On average, these refugees still had family ties with residents of Singapore. They couldn't drive them away, but with the critical food condition they were currently in, these people ended up stranded in outside camps. Not only that, but their condition was getting worse due to the disease that attacked these refugees.

"Sir Minister, with this deal, we are also willing to accept them as our problem. We'll send them to Indonesia and look after them like our own citizens... how is it?" Cahya offered as he looked at Prime Minister Lee Semo.

It didn't take long at all for the prime minister to nod his head in response to that offer.

Cahya was quite surprised at how easily the prime minister agreed to the transaction. He immediately arranged for the transport of the refugees.

"It's good that one of our problems can be resolved," the prime minister said, feeling as though a portion of the weight hanging down on his chest was lifted. A part of that relief was also due to trust. He trusted that Cahya wouldn't allow his people to be mistreated.

Minister Sidao spoke up, "Yes, the prime minister is indeed very wise. A large portion of the refugees are Hong Kong citizens anyway, so they're not really our problem..."

"Minister Sidao, aren't they citizens entrusted by your niece Christina?" The prime minister asked. From what he knew, Christina entrusted for these citizens to be taken care of as she had to go with Zhao Wei to meet Zhao Fan.

"No need to worry, Prime Minister, I'm sure that she will understand that all this is for the sake of the survival of our country," he simply said.

"Yes... that's right."

At the end of the month, around thirty ships crossed the area of ??Southeast Asia and made transactions akin to this one. Of course, this was all part of Alex's plan.

How was Alex's condition after being in Australia for over 100 days?