The journey to Australia ended there.
It was not that they did not want to do more, but that they could not do more.
Completely save Australia?
Don't joke. Even Huaxia, though it currently maintained a social environment much like before the Reiki Revival, still faced the threat of Mutant Creatures. Many cities suffered attacks from Beast Tides.
From time to time, Mutant Creatures also broke into cities, causing civilian deaths.
The Spirit Energy Bureau could only curb such incidents and resolve them as quickly as possible after they occurred. It could not eliminate them before they happened.
They could not do that.
Likewise, completely saving Australia and eliminating every Mutant Creature on the continent was utterly impossible.
Most of Australia's cities had already fallen. Fewer than forty remained in human hands. At this point, Australia could be said to have become the territory of Mutant Creatures, with humans merely one race within that territory.
No one knew how many Mutant Creatures existed in Australia now, so how could they speak of saving it?
The First Sequence were not gods.
They could do no more.
The ones who could truly save Australia would not be them, but Australia itself. They could only relieve Australia's pressure as much as possible and give it a sliver of hope.
Australia had its own First Sequence and many Espers who were not weak. It was only that this Beast Tide had lasted far too long, clearly intending to wipe out Australia's humans.
After destroying one human city, they moved on to the next almost without pause.
There was a high chance that intelligent Mutant Creatures were directing this horde from behind the scenes, much like the Mutant Crocodiles, Mutant Kangaroos, Mutant Lizards, and other Mutant Creatures united by Balang.
As long as they could