Lord Shadow

Chapter 991: The world below and the heavens above (1)

Schemes are forming, plot are moving forward, the world is in a great period of chaos. The Seven Great Power is also trying to adapt with the changes of the time

But out of the Seven Great Power, Pandemonium is the one that was least affected from the aftermath of the battle between the Demon King and Death Monarch.

and they were even the least affected from the Multiversal Convergence effect while reaping the biggest benefits in terms of energy that is pouring down and filling each part of Pandemonium territory.

This is why in this brand new world; the strength of the leader weighs heavily.

It is the same reason why the World Government which actually were formed with the intention to be democratic is actually autocratic.

And why even though the Republic that delegate its power in theory, but actually in reality centralizes it to the Three Chancellors.

The same for the other Great Powers, whether it be the Order of Thinkers who listen to the words of the Grand Researcher, the League of Freedom which stresses freedom but listen to the leader of the League which is Narleod and so on and so forth

They know that they had to centralize power to foster unity.

Because if everyone does what they want, then Earth would have long been destroyed. Unity had preserved humanity since the Stone Age.

When they are together, they are strong.

People gravitate to people of power.

That is the case in the past and even more in the current time where people of power is more than just power of money or wealth

People of power in the time after the Fall, is people who is basically godlike.

In this world, those who were unlucky, those who were not brave, those who were weak had died off.

Those that survived either by luck, by strength, by bravery, were all people who have seen the limitation of their power.

It is the reason why the common people tolerate the tyranny of the powerful. As long as the ruler did not push them too much, they could sacrifice some liberty for security.

What good is liberty if they could not enjoy it? Of course, it is not that these rulers did not have common sense.

They know why people follow them

The threat that is descending upon them is not a threat to one singular nation, to one singular continent or to one singular individual.

It is a calamity to all humanity.

One had to have one mind at this time, one had to learn to sacrifice if they were to see the continuation of the human species.

The ruler has as much incentive to rule efficiently and to strengthen the people under him. because if humanity falls, they too would fall

And the Seven great powers each have individuals that have great power.

And as this disaster is about to calm down, one could see the impact of having high level powerful people as the divine protector of their Great Power

Pandemonium, the home of the strongest person in the world was the least affected. It is orderly.

There is broken buildings, cracked earth and large disaster all around

There is elemental storms and hurricanes and tornadoes, not to add the earthquakes and the roiling sea waves that crash upon the shore like a hammer smashing toward a piece of metal, battering it with each hit.

But with one wave of Death Monarch hand, golden light swept away all of this disasters

The elemental storms were extinguished, the hurricanes and tornadoes were swept away, the Earthquakes and the sea was pacified.

And he did it with him not even being inside Pandemonium at that time. The territory of Pandemonium suffered damages

But most people die of the initial invasion of the Seresian demons and the humans from the Otherworlds instead of dying from the disaster of the world expansion.

The same thing could not be said for the other great powers.

Even though everything in Pandemonium look orderly, there is a lot of chaos hiding underneath the stability of the palace and the throne

Those who lives nearby the palace, near the capital cities is lucky in that they were the first being rescued.

Those who live on the farther side however had to contend with much more problems. The Shadow Guards does send some of their people to help

But there is one thing that all the officials and all of the people living in Pandemonium knows

Shadow Guards are not the military and they are not some peacekeeping agency.

They are operatives, agents and their task is sometimes protecting Pandemonium, and mostly they are protecting the interest of Death Monarch

And not the people itself. Now, that is a job of the Central Court and the Peacekeeping force that they created.

And the military also lend its aid

And even though the military did not have its general right now, most of the other high ranking members of the military is heading back to Pandemonium.

Those reservist soldiers who were already in the base had come out even without the orders of the generals

Most of communication devices were affected by the severe storms energy all around the world right now.

But, this is special times and Pandemonium is not like the other great powers like the World Government which strictly forbade the mobilization of any army unit without authorization from the President or the Supreme Commander.

The military in Pandemonium is quite flexible. Death Monarch need no protection from the army.

Probably that is why the control on military power in Pandemonium were not put under the power of Death Monarch.

After all, as long as the Three Great generals follow Death Monarch words, there is nothing to worry about

And even if the Three Great generals did not follow Death monarch, it is not like Death Monarch would be afraid of losing the army.

Most of the things that the army could do, Death Monarch could do it, and could do it even better than them.

As such the army of Pandemonium saw itself as the protector of the People and the protector of Pandemonium from foreign forces.

They went out from their base and lend aid in coordinated manner.

While they could not contact some of the other high level officials they could contact the other reservist forces inside of Pandemonium

And the people of Pandemonium itself help their neighbors and the closest village that they could reached.

Most of the people of Pandemonium is hardy and strong in nature

Compared to other continent that also had expanded during the Multiversal Convergence, Pandemonium is not highly chaotic but there are also things that Pandemonium suffer more than the other

Pandemonium seems to be affected by highly condensed energy storm that surpassed the other Great Power

This might have to do with the already high concentration of worldly energy in Pandemonium even before the World Expansion.

The world of course did not know this yet, but for people like Death Monarch, Jean and Hikigaya, they have seen the world with their Divine Sense and they could deduce why

the places that used to have more than average world energy would explode with more energy as it seems that the All Source seems to absorb the energy from the Multiversal Convergence and spread it out according to the concentration of worldly energy

And Pandemonium is the most affected with this because of its status as one of the forbidden zone in the world before the formation of Pandemonium

So much so, that the high ranking members of the military could not easily teleport.

But most of them is Disk Formation leveler. Even though the world had reached a point of vastness that is hard to wrap their heads around, they are still Disk Formation levelers

This means while they could not be as fast as they did before, they still arrived just in time before Death Monarch remove himself from the palace.

Chaos still reigns in Pandemonium and people are rebuilding.

But Death Monarch is no longer inside Pandemonium.

Sasha sends her orders, the military responded to the crisis, the central court officers also began supervising the work

Since Death Monarch had told them not to go to the Centre Palace and instead work on the problem, they did not go.

And when Sasha relayed the fact that Death Monarch is about to enter seclusion, they all understood.

Some that did not the news were briefed about the matter by those who knows the inside story

Not everyone was visited by Jean Time Avatar. Those who were, get all the information in real time.

And now since Jean had to focus on the matter of the portal on the hill, he had retracted all of his Time Avatar.

But, the help he had given to the world is not something that could be quantified.

If not for Jean time Avatar multiplying by the millions and relayed all kinds of news, the world would surely fall into chaos without any news of what is happening and whether they were winning or losing

The officers of Pandemonium did not become shocked or become unmoving after hearing that Death Monarch enter seclusion.

They were used to it.

knowing that Death Monarch had returned is enough for them

This divine protector god of Pandemonium did not need to do much.

Just by existing, he would give them a peace of mind.

Instead of complaining, all of the officers are hard at work.

Some of them of course had some dark past and some of them have selfish intention to join the court but when this is related to the safety of Pandemonium, none of the officers would slack off.

After all, they are also humans.

Even the most corrupt politicians in the seven great powers acknowledge this fact. You could be selfish. But you could not be excessively selfish.