I told as many people as I could about the coming world change in three days. I asked the representatives of both world countries, with the help of Guild Master Relisha, Silhouette from The Black Cat, and others, to remind me not to go to too many dangerous places after three days.
　According to God, there is no major change, but it's called a reminder. Even Brunhild banned people from entering the Dungeon Island that day.
　This would put a heavy burden on the Great Spirit and the spirits below it. They would suppress earthquakes, extinguish tsunamis, quell volcanoes, and not let what could be called natural disasters happen. This is something we can do because we know it's going to happen beforehand.
　Normally, the spirits are not involved in earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. This is because it is natural and natural. But this time, we're going to ask the spirits to help us. The spirits do not want the world to end up in a state of chaos.
　I'm not going to be able to say a word about it.

　─ ─ And three days later, in the morning.




　I woke up before the alarm on my phone went off.
　To be honest, I barely slept. When it's around midnight, it's still 'three days later'. God doesn't know until the exact time, apparently, so I can't blame him, but this is a yucky one.

'Good morning, guys,'
Good morning. ...Are you okay?　Mr. Winter Night.

　Yumina is looking at my face with concern. Don't worry, it's just lack of sleep.
　I've already talked to everyone and we're not going to do anything special, we're just going to spend today as usual.
　But still, I guess it's because I'm still anxious, and after breakfast, we all gathered in the living room. Each of us is spending time reading a book or playing cards.
　I was sitting on the couch, reading news sites on my phone, and I thought it would be useful to have an app that would give me emergency alerts in case of a disaster like this.
　I called the doctor in Babylon to discuss this, and he said it would be possible if I made a contract with the spirits and used their help.
　There's nothing I can do this time, but I'll have it made and sent out at a later date. A tsunami warning or an eruption warning would help, right?
　When I hung up the phone and opened the screen to look at the news site again, 'it' came.
　Don!　There was a large vertical tremor for a moment. After that, there was a slight tremor of about 1 or 2 on the Japanese scale.

''It's here....
Winter's night...

　Sue hugs me anxiously. It's okay. The spirits should be holding you back.

''Fuyao-san, the sky........!

　Linse, who was on the balcony, shouts out. We walked out onto the balcony with Sue in our arms and found that the sky was dark, even though it was morning. It's as dark as night, with a thick cloud cover.

What is it? What is it? What is that shiny thing...⁉︎?
It is beautiful, that it is..... But it does look somewhat bewitching, that it does....

　A curtain of light was shelved in the sky that Lou was pointing at. Yae, who was beside me, also widened her eyes at the phenomenon.

''The heavens will split...?''
No, that's the Northern Lights. I don't know how it is in our world, but it's a natural phenomenon.
"Polaris. I've heard that you can sometimes see them in the Great Sea of Trees. I've been alive for a long time and this is the first time I've seen one.

　I replied to Hilda, who mumbled uneasily, and Leanne added. On Earth, you can see them in cold places, but I heard it's different here.
　While we were focusing on the sky, the ground was still shaking. It's the weakest, and nothing inside the room is falling.
　The sky has been changing colors - sometimes red, sometimes green, sometimes purple - and then the light disappears. At the same time, a steady drizzle of rain makes us retreat from the balcony.
　There was no momentum. It was a light drizzle, but not an ordinary rain. But it was no ordinary rain.

Hikari....rain...?

　As the cherry blossoms say, a rain that glows like a rainbow of colors falls from the heavens. It glistens and shines, then bounces off the ground and disappears.
　Strangely enough, this rain didn't turn into a puddle of water. It all disappears as if it were sucked into the earth. I reached out and touched it, only to feel that it had hit me, but my hands weren't wet.
　I put the cup on the balcony to try it out, but nothing collected inside. What is this?

I wonder if it's a substance that contains magic power. Like an etheric liquid......... Maybe the magic contained in the atmosphere is falling all at once.

　Leanne is watching the rain with interest. It won't be a flood, but will this be okay? It might be a blessed rain for a land that has been depleted of magic power and abandoned by the spirits....

''Oh, the sky is going to clear up!
It's true... what?

　I look up at the heavens at the sound of Else's voice. Indeed, the rain had begun to cease and the sun was shining through.
　But the clouds have cleared and there are two suns there. And one part of them overlapped with the other.
　Everyone was silent at the shocking sight. Soon, the two suns became one and emitted an extremely strong light.
　It was as if the sun had exploded and a blinding flash of light hit us. When we opened our eyes, we saw the sun as usual.
　Before we knew it, the earthquake had subsided. Is it over?

"World map view. Deploy in the air.
Copy that. Deploying.

　Von, a map of the world appears in front of me. It wasn't a conventional map, but a new world map.



　Roughly speaking, there was the surface world on the right and the back world continents on the left. But it was slightly different from the previous shape.

''Yisheng and Iglet the island nations are quite distorted and misaligned. So is the one on the underworld side.
The Kingdom of Panachez and the Kingdom of Lefries are inextricably linked. Is it safe?

　Turning my gaze to Yumina's voice, I found that the tip of the Panacheth Kingdom has indeed ended up touching the Liefreth Empire.
　It's not that large of an overlapping territory, so I don't think there will be any trouble, but will the people who were here be okay?
　I'll immediately send this map data to Babylon and call the doctor to ask him to update everyone's devices as well. Presumably, everyone's mass-produced phones won't be able to display the map of the new world.
　The doctor who answered the phone also seemed to have expected that.

'How's the observation going?'
"There are no problems at the moment. There are no tsunamis or cracks or signs of volcanic eruptions. If I had to guess, I'd say the atmosphere is unstable, but acceptable.

　It looks like the spirits did a good job. I'll have to thank them next time.
　I'm going to send out a batch of e-mails with photos attached, just to get a new world map for now.
　I also called King Lefries to make sure he was okay.

It's true that we're connected, but there's only one island nation on the other side, so we should be able to work it out. Queen Strain says that the King of Panachez is a gentle man. It's going to be fine, we'll make it work.

　In terms of understanding the situation, the Leaf Lease is currently superior. It's not going to be a bargain that will be detrimental.
　Rather, I'm more concerned about the Kingdom of Curiela, which was to face Leafleth and Belfast across the sea.
　I don't have any information about this country at all. No, if you ask around Strain or Galdio, you'll find out.
　As if aiming at my timing of being relieved for the time being, suddenly a ga-ahh!　And there was a loud noise like shattering glass.

''Huh!　What is it?
'Mr. Wintery Night!　That one!

　Yumina pointed a finger toward the sky.
　Something like a shooting star is falling in the eastern sky. As soon as I activated 【Long Sense】 with 【God's Eye】, the shape of the falling "it" jumped into my eyes clearly.
　A poisonous needle. It looked like that to me. A dark golden thorn needle with many distorted thorns sprouted, disappearing into the eastern sky.
　The disastrous thorn needles were clearly covered in a cloudy divine Qi.

''Search!　Where does that thing fall...?
"Analysis in progress..." "Analysis completed. Display is complete.

　A pin drops on the deployed map. Regulus!　d*mn it!
　It's in the northeastern part of the city, northeast of the imperial capital, Galaria, where the plains continue. I don't know if it's fortunate, but there are no big towns or villages.
　However, we can't feel safe. Without a doubt, that is something on the evil god's side. It has fallen through the world's wards into this world. We can't leave it alone.

I'm going!

　It's close by, and if I use 【Teleport】, I can transition quickly. Since I don't know what's out there, I decided to go alone. If there's no problem, I can connect the 【Gate】 later.
　Using 【Teleport】, I transitioned to Regulus' destination, where the earth had been gouged out in a large crater.
　In the center of the crater, I could see a distorted spine needle pierced into the earth.
　The size of the thorn is about thirty meters. Except for the part that was buried in the ground.

What in the world is this...?

　As I tried to get closer to the thorn needle, the ground where the thorn needle was stuck began to discolor as if it was wrinkled and water seeped out.
　The ground is being eroded by the poisonous dark golden darkness.

''The earth is rotting........''
You're....

　Suddenly, the earth rose up from the ground and took the form of a woman. She is a spirit of the earth. I didn't summon her, so her body, made of earth and stone, was not the main body, but perhaps a relying party. The main body would be the spirit world.

''That object is emitting a poison that can corrupt the earth. At this rate, everything in this area will rot away and the earth will disappear.''
'Gone?　How do you call it disappearing?
'Yes. It doesn't melt. It does not dissolve, it disappears. Into emptiness...

　It doesn't melt and turn into magma. It's going to be gone. You've sent another nasty one....

'O king. That one.

　The earth spirit pointed ahead, a mutant species was being born with a sparkling sound from a giant golden poison needle. They're the ones that make all kinds of appearances at all.
　The mutants that were born were all lower-grade species. That low-grade species, which looks like ants, thrusts its sword arm out like a spear towards us.
　I took out a hammer larger than my height made of crystalline wood from 【Storage】 and doubled its weight with 【Gravity】 and smashed it against that mutant.
　The mutant that was crushed by the weight of the hammer with its entire nucleus turned into a sludgy fluid that disappeared while raising black smoke.
　As I did so, the same mutant species were created from the poisonous needle in the same way. I swung my hammer one after another to crush them, but there was no end in sight.
　I'll have to do something about that spiny needle first.
　As I crushed the mutant species that were being born, I hit the golden spiny needle with a full swing of my crystal wood hammer, which had increased in weight.
　An impact like that of striking a heavy bell could be felt from my hand.
　With a snap, the thorn needle cracked and began to disintegrate. The rattle and shattered pieces were scattered all around.
　The spread that had been eroding the ground also seems to have stopped.

''d*mn it, changing hands and changing things.......are you harassing me?

　The fragments of the shattered spine needle melted with a sizzle. Up to that point, there was no difference from the mutant species just now, and I thought it would disappear again, emitting black smoke as usual.
　However, the liquid from which the fragments melted danced on the wind like powder and began to drift through the air. Like yellow sand, the golden powder dyed the surroundings.

''What's this?''
"Uh-uh, uh-uh...

　Suddenly, the earth spirit began to suffer and fell to its knees on the ground. What the hell?
　He ran over to the fallen earth spirit and crouched down to call out to him.

'Hey!　I'm going to be okay.
"'I'm sorry.... My King, please run. This is...!

　As he said this, the soil and stones that had been forming the earth spirit rattle back to their original form.

''What in the world is going on...''

　Just as I'm about to stand up, I'm hit with a violent dizziness that causes me to poke my knee out like an earth spirit.
　What the hell?　Holy shit.
　I have no strength. I can't stand up for a second when I try to stand up, and then I fall back down on the spot. I can't breathe. Greasy sweat is seeping through and my vision is blurring.

''Ku..... Could it be that this powder........

　Staring at it, which still drifted around like a fog, I struggled to wake my fallen body.
　This is not good if it continues like this. I have to get away from here.

Tele, port.........

　The shifting magic doesn't work. Silly. I tried again, but it still didn't activate.
　I can't knead the magic in my body. Is this also because of this fog?
　Just as I was about to raise my last resort and divine qi to become a deity, an incomparably more intense pain and dizziness hit me and I vomited on the spot.

''Ughhhh!''

　I rolled on the ground to avoid vomiting and vomiting. As I fell onto my back and looked up at the sky, 'It' popped into my blurred vision.

''Oh no, right...?''

　From the direction of the sun, it is to the west. Countless meteors are falling down, wrapped in golden light. Don't tell me all of them are the same as this spiny needle.
　I felt the vomiting sensation again as the meteor shower of misfortune hit me.
　In my dazed consciousness, I tried to move to get away from this fog, but it was no use.
　This is seriously bad. It's getting hard to keep my eyes open.....

''d*mn........!
King!

　A girl with light red hair is reflected in my hazy vision. Sakura...?　I see, with [Teleportation]........
　I lost consciousness while catching Sakura's figure rushing up to me in the corner of my vision.