"Forbidden Book of Magic"

In just one month, disasters around the world had plummeted. Aside from a handful of Mage Association higher-ups, almost no one realized the gravity of the situation.

To most mages, a reduction in disasters was an extremely common occurrence. The number of disasters was not the same every day; there were always rises and falls.

Especially in winter, disasters seemed to need hibernation too, their numbers dropping drastically.

Many people believed the current anomaly was only temporary, that things would return to normal after a while. And they could take this opportunity to rest properly at home for a time.

But once they rested, they were destined never to have another chance to start work again.

Another two months passed, and the number of disasters still had not returned to its usual average. Not only that, they had nearly vanished altogether! The Real-time Monitoring System spread across the entire world showed that fewer than a hundred sudden disasters now occurred worldwide each day! What a terrifying figure that was. Even during the lowest periods, the number of sudden disasters worldwide each day had never fallen below five hundred thousand! Those who learned the data were horrified at once and immediately realized that some earth-shattering upheaval seemed to have occurred in this world, causing the various disasters that had plagued humanity for countless years to die out.

Perhaps disasters were like living things too, subject to birth, aging, illness, and death! Perhaps disasters were now gravely ill, on the brink of death, and before long would vanish completely from this world.

Then joy welled up in their hearts, and the feeling of parting the clouds to see the blue sky swept over them, leaving body and mind refreshed and clear!

But it quickly turned into deep worry. "If there are no