A so-called "shelter" did not mean digging a hole underground and assuming everything would be fine once everyone hid beneath the surface.
One look at the sky was enough to reveal that the light of the sun and stars was dimming. As the power of the world was siphoned away, the stars in the universe were gradually going dark, and even the gravity sustaining the galaxies was changing.
When that happened, the moon, planets, extinguished suns, and countless celestial bodies hurtling freely through gravitational turbulence would crash into one another like billiard balls.
Therefore, the shelter was established within Kaguya's legacy:
The independent dimension of Amenominaka.
Of course, an independent dimension alone was not enough to withstand the Calamity God Tree's siphoning.
The Human Alliance gathered items from numerous parallel worlds and conducted collision experiments.
According to the laws of space-time, when identical objects or people collided, they produced enormous annihilation energy.
This was a higher-dimensional force that even Dio, who had achieved Heaven Ascension, could not evade.
The Research Institute extracted the energy generated by those collisions and incorporated it into the defensive barrier, forming a defensive network isolated from the outside world to resist the Calamity God Tree's erosion.
Of course, calling it "resistance" was merely meant to reassure ordinary people. Everyone truly involved in the plan knew that "buying time" was more accurate.
Maintaining a defensive barrier fueled by annihilation energy required vast quantities of parallel-world items every moment. With their current reserves, how long could they keep it going?
And once those items were used up, would they wait for death—or would they... consume living people?
Every choice was incomparably difficult.
They had merely gone from being boiled over a raging fire to being slowly stewed over a low flame.
But no matter how difficult the