First Stygian Diviner:Apocalypse

Chapter 72 Sky's Ash

District one was in a chaotic state for the next few weeks, people were too busy with the new changes in the district, their new leader started to give them orders for the sake of their plan of survival, and they had to obey him, not because they were scared but because he truly convinced them with the necessity of the fight.

Chris sent a few mages to spy on those from districts four and five who stayed within the borders, he sent a few others in their districts to confirm their state after those natural disasters.

Chris assigned a few mages to observe district two and also district three too.

He was working very hard to make sure that he had his eyes on everything, especially with the absence of communication after the evacuation .

he didn't want to hit them just like that recklessly without a backup plan.

After all, he was the first person to start a fight between districts in centuries.

To have such a burden upon his shoulders, it was a very hard thing to carry .

In just a few weeks he had a glamourous reputation, mages lined up in front of his door to offer their help, women were drawn to him, and they tried to get closer.

It was like he lived all his life for this specific moment, Chris preserved his calm while he was facing new challenges every day.

For a start he ordered women to design female and male clothing with the same color and fabric, the uniform was like a pass to people from district one, he didn't want any intruders to interfere with his plan when he start causing damage.

He set up a group to distribute it to the whole district, it was not an innocent move, and he was only refreshing his information about the left-behind mages.

He made a detailed list of the inhibitors from district one so that he distinguish them from other districts easily.

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When district three had the same fate as the other districts, it was a month after the evacuation, right when they thought that they survived a snow storm hit the place.

In a weather like theirs it was impossible to have a snow storm, they never had one to begin with, it was their first time to see snow.

They called it sky's ash, they knew immediately that it was not toxic and for that they didn't even care about it .

It was not like in the other districts where everything happened brutally and caused a lot of deaths, in district three people loved the change of that hot weather, they played with snow for days non-stop, until reality hit them.

What looked so harmless to them was killing them slowly, from the beginning they didn't have much food and after the snow they were unable to grow food or hunt animals, and the weather that became colder each day started to harm their skins and their body's temperature.

A lot of people froze peacefully to death, and the others starved and got sick slowly.

They used their magic for heating but not for a long time, it was not just a weak or two, the storm lasted for a month and quietly everyone faced the same fate.

Districts four and two and five were not aware of the state there, they didn't even think of escaping because what happened was not destructive, it was just slow.

Chris was not aware of the state there until the mages whom he sent there to spy on them came two weeks after to give him updates of what happened there .

One of the mages he sent there named Arino was pissed off by his colleague's reaction, he cut his mission to come back and ask for help to save the survivors of district 3.

There were in total 6 mages, those who went to region three, five of them agreed on silence and secrecy, while Arino thought that they were behaving mercilessly.

The day they arrived, they gathered at Chris's house immediately and asked for a private meeting to discuss the matter.

Arino was the first one to talk, his face was so red because he had a previous argument with the other mages about going back with help.

Chris looked at their faces carefully, he knew that something was wrong but he tried too hard to maintain his straight face, until he was able to know the full story.

Arino was the first one to speak when he said with a crumbled voice:" District three is now facing the same fate as the other districts, when we arrived there two weeks ago everything was covered with white thick ash"

"White ash? " Chris wondered.

" Yes, i never saw something like that, it was cold and everything was covered with it, apparently it happened long before even we arrived there" Another mage answered.

" That change of weather was brutal, it killed them slowly because they were all waiting for it to end in days, they were frozen by the cold weather, and drained of their divine energy, they couldn't even find something to eat…everyone there was stuck"

" I see..do you mean the people from district three are dead now ? "

" Most of them, but …"

"And? Why did you come back?" Chris interrupted him.

"We have to rescue those who are still alive"

" What ? " Chris questioned with a weird look on his face.

" We told him that it is not our job to rescue any other district, but he insisted on going back to ask you this "Another mage said.

Arino spit on the floor and then got closer to Chris and said:" Sir, we have to rescue them, they are dying !"

Chris laughed loudly then said sarcastically:'' probably you don't understand what we are doing here, those who survived in the other districts we are going to send them back, and you're trying to bring these new refugees into our district?...i think that you are as smart as i thought..ahhhhh…someone please explain to him why we shouldn't do that "