This Lady: “Whoa! What is this thing? Don’t tell me it’s another invention from Madam Herta?”
Saeko Busujima: “A very strange screen. It only appears in my vision. Is this some kind of advanced technology?”
Apple Pie: “Hello, everyone! Is this a new way of chatting? Or is something wrong with my empathy?”
Goddess of Water: “I am Aqua, the Goddess of Water. I have no idea what this is, but since there are people here, would you like to worship the Water Goddess? Join the Axis Cult!”
This Lady: “A Water Goddess? You mean an Aeon? But I’ve never heard of one like that!”
…
Adrian didn’t dismiss them as a bunch of delusional chuunibyou.
The Apocalypse Chat Group was real.
📱 It had already granted him the Yin Five Thunders from the Five Thunders Orthodox Method of The Outcast.
There was no reason to doubt it.
At this point, though, it seemed he needed to clear up everyone’s confusion.
Adrian: “Everyone, please hear me out.”
This Lady: “The Administrator!”
Apple Pie: “Oh? The administrator finally showed up? Did you create this with Originium Arts?”
Adrian: “No. As the name Apocalypse Chat Group suggests, this is a chat group that connects countless worlds, allowing people to exchange information and resist apocalyptic disasters together.” 🌐
Adrian: “Before you continue doubting it, let me introduce the group’s functions.”
Apocalypse Check-In: Sign in daily to receive between 1 and 100 Apocalypse Points.
Apocalypse Roulette: Spend 1,000 Apocalypse Points to draw rewards from countless worlds, including items and abilities.
Ability Enhancement: Use Apocalypse Points to strengthen your abilities.
Ability Recycling: The Apocalypse Chat Group can recycle abilities and convert them into points.
Ability Visualization: Converts your abilities and status into visible information.
Adrian: “I suggest everyone try Ability Visualization first. Check whether your world has an apocalypse and what kind it is.” 👁️🗨️
This Lady: “Eh?! Mine says Future Apocalypse (9 Stars). Wait, does that mean my world is doomed or something?” 😱
Saeko Busujima: “Mine shows Future Apocalypse (4 Stars).”
Apple Pie: “Oh! Mine says Future Apocalypse (7 Stars).”
Goddess of Water: “Apocalypse? How could the divine realm have an apocalypse? Mine says Future Apocalypse (6 Stars). It’s actually claiming my world is facing the end of the world?”
“All future apocalypses?”
Adrian rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
Unlike their worlds, his was different.
His world had three separate apocalypses.
And every single one was rated 12 Stars.
💀
[Human]: Adrian
[Points]: 500
[Apocalypses]: Cognitive Apocalypse (12 Stars), Anomaly Apocalypse (12 Stars), Uncertainty Apocalypse (12 Stars)
[Abilities]:
B-Rank Physical Enhancement (Lv.2) Yin Five Thunders, Five Thunder Orthodox Method (Lv.3)
Saeko Busujima.
A character from Highschool of the Dead.
A textbook zombie apocalypse scenario.
Dealing with a lone zombie might be easy.
But dealing with every zombie in an entire world…
That definitely deserved a 4-Star apocalypse rating.
Apple Pie had mentioned Originium Arts, which narrowed her identity down to someone from Terra in Arknights.
As for the nickname “Apple Pie”…
Only one person came to mind.
Exusiai.
Her real name was Lemuen’s sister—no, more accurately, Mostima’s friend?
Wait, no.
Exusiai’s real name was Exusiai, born in Laterano.
Regardless, she was definitely from Terra.
And Terra was complicated.
The 7-Star apocalypse likely represented the combined threats of the Seaborn, the Demons, the Feranmuts, and countless other disasters.
The only question was whether it also included threats from beyond the planet.
As for “This Lady,” she had mentioned Herta and Aeons.
Combined with the way she spoke…
She sounded a lot like March 7th.
He couldn’t be completely certain, but she was almost certainly from the world of Honkai: Star Rail.
As for the apocalypse threatening her world…
Was it related to the Aeons?
Or perhaps whatever force the Aeon Qlipoth was desperately holding back?
Finally, there was the Goddess of Water.
She called herself Aqua and mentioned the Axis Cult.
There was only one possibility.
The idiot goddess from KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!
If stupidity had a color, it would definitely be blue.
An apocalypse in the divine realm?
Probably not.
More likely, it referred to the Demon King threatening the world she had descended to.
A Future Apocalypse.
By now, Adrian had a rough understanding of what that term meant.
It referred to a disaster that was destined to occur naturally within a world’s future.
🧐
As for the apocalypses in his own world…
He only understood one of them so far.
The Cognitive Apocalypse.
Just like the evil spirits Miko could see, and the one he had destroyed not long ago.
His world contained countless supernatural phenomena.
Normally, the world’s self-protection mechanism concealed them all.
Because of that, ordinary people neither knew about nor encountered the supernatural.
But now…
For some unknown reason, that protective mechanism had disappeared.
The supernatural was beginning to overlap with normal reality.
More and more people were becoming aware of it.
And once enough people recognized the supernatural…
It would erupt.
🌋
Every supernatural phenomenon would break out at once, plunging the world into destruction.
While Adrian was lost in thought, the others had already begun exploring the chat group’s remaining functions.
Apple Pie: “The points from check-in are so stingy! I only got 60 points. You need 1,000 just to use the roulette wheel. What a shame. And strengthening my Originium Arts actually costs 10,000 points!” 😩
Adrian was slightly surprised.
If upgrading her ability required 10,000 Apocalypse Points, that meant her ability was already a Level 2 Ability.
Based on what he currently knew:
Level 1 → Level 2 required 1,000 points Level 2 → Level 3 required 10,000 points Level 3 → Level 4 required 50,000 points
As for the levels beyond that…
Even he had no idea.
“…..”