How cruel was an Era Disaster?
Although the affected area was still only an inconspicuous fraction of Pangu Continent, everyone who knew about it was already feeling endangered, racking their brains for solutions.
The enemy's displayed survivability had exceeded expectations. It took repeated strikes from high-yield Weapons of Mass Destruction to kill them completely. That condition for killing them was simply too demanding.
At the Era Fortress General Command, the Civilization Leaders wore solemn expressions.
"Civilizations hiding in Safe Zones lack the courage to self-destruct... If this continues, the enemy's strength will keep snowballing."
"If they had dared to use Hydrogen Bombs at the very beginning, they might have caused the enemy some trouble."
"But now... they are fish on the chopping block, utterly incapable of resisting."
The Deep Blue Civilization's Antimatter Bomb had heavily injured five Subordinate Gods.
Yet among so many low-level civilizations, not a single one dared to use a Hydrogen Bomb within a city.
In theory, high-yield Hydrogen Bombs could also harm the enemy. But how many civilizations had the resolve to make an immediate decision and self-destruct?
That meant tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of people!
"Something is very wrong... This era has an unusually large number of civilizations hiding in Safe Zones. In the past, the numbers were nowhere near this exaggerated... We need to think of something." An elder from the Turtle Civilization spoke.
There were many reasons behind this phenomenon.
First, the Ninth Era had been too short. Less than nine hundred years had passed outside, while only nine years had passed inside the Safe Zones. It was perfectly normal for them to hide inside and never come out during those nine years.
Second, more than ten times as many civilizations had been summoned here in the Ninth Era than