A Palm Descending from the Heavens

"You are making an enemy of the entire nation!"

"Kidnapping the president, kidnapping high-ranking officials—you're bringing disaster upon yourself! You can get nothing from us. Once it is confirmed that the president can no longer perform his duties, the vice president will immediately take office, and so on."

"Stop this absurd behavior. I can let bygones be bygones and treat it as nothing more than a joke you played on us."

The president, who had been forcibly taken from Hawaii, hardened his tone. He forced himself to remain calm and tried to persuade Lox with words.

He was the most powerful man on the planet and had weathered countless storms. Even though Lox had "kidnapped" him, he still maintained his composure and bearing.

Seeing the other man still trying to negotiate and maneuver with him, Lox smiled helplessly.

Dealing with a so-called supervolcano was no difficult matter for him.

Even completely remaking the planet beneath his feet would take no more than a word from him.

Even without the authority of the Omnissiah, he still commanded astronomical levels of productive capacity.

The Yellowstone supervolcano was terrifying because an immense quantity of magma had accumulated beneath the crust, while tectonic activity continued to intensify the pressure within.

Once its interior was disturbed and its fragile balance broken, all that pressure would naturally burst forth.

The solution was simple. As long as all the underground magma was extracted and the pressure released, the problem would resolve itself.

To Lox, Yellowstone was a tender, juicy resource. To humanity, it was a deadly god of death.

Because of the intensifying magma activity beneath the crust, the vast Yellowstone National Park had become incomparably desolate and silent.

Those quick-witted wild animals had already fled for their lives the instant the nuclear bomb exploded.

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