Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The reason why tornadoes and tsunamis kept occurring one after the other after the global freeze was because there was an updraft.

When the Earths ice started to melt due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, the atmospheric temperature reached 50C. When the seas surface appeared, the ocean water warmed up, generating an intense updraft. This occurred all over the world, and as a result, it turned into a historically rare state on Earth where supercells appeared frequently all around.

*T/N: Supercell = a type of thunderstorm (wiki)

The raging storms that reached the global scale invoked the next huge storm, and caused tsunamis that were capable of completely submerging mid-sized mountains completely. Giant tsunamis on an absurdly large scale rushed through the continent from shore to shore, submerging it.

Only a portion of high mountains, with me at the very top of the list, were able to avoid being damaged by the tsunamis, and even those mountains had their surfaces whittled away by the raging storms.

It was a dreadfully harsh era, different from the scorching hot world when meteorites collided with the Earth, and the frozen world of the global freeze.

As the dwarves lived inside the mountain, they were able to avoid any damage, while the mermaids actually rode on the tsunamis skillfully, utilizing them to travel long distances. However, the ones who were troubled were the werewolves, headed by Lycan. The ice that served as both their dwellings and food source had completely disappeared due to the violent global warming, in addition to the raging storms and the giant tsunamis.

At this point, there were no places on Earth for the werewolves to live

as such, I coped with the situation by having them evacuate to the moon.

The moon is fundamentally a desolate and barren land, but the polar regions have a thick ice sheet. It has a world of ice where the werewolves could live.

Even though it was a world without air, as the werewolves did not breathe, it posed no problem at all. The Earths stormy era wouldnt last that long (comparatively speaking). Once the environment calmed down and until ice once again appeared, the moon was the most suitable place as a refuge.

Sahela was in charge of their evacuation to the moon. She carried the werewolves on her shoulder and jumped to the moon, diligently transporting them all.

Everything with regards to the werewolves was settled with that. When they return from the moon, Ill probably have them tell me the tales of their travels on the moon.

Now then.

While the werewolves were taking refuge, I created yet another new species.

I wanted a living being that could defy the raging storms, and fly through the skies even as thunderstorms blew.

The world seen from the grounds surface and the world seen while looking down from the skies were surely different.

A living being that can fly through the sky will need wings. A balloon could also soar up into the air, but just going upwards without being able to control ones direction couldnt be called flying.

Around the time that the oceans surface was dyed green, the atmospheric temperature dropped, and ice started to form in the polar regions.

I called the werewolves, who had been taking refuge on the moon, back home. After coaxing Sahela, who didnt want to be away from me, I had her once again perform the transport operation between the moon and Earth.

However, a portion of the werewolves did not want to return to Earth.

Since the lifespan of the werewolves was 500 years, once 1000 years passed, there was a turnover of about two to three generations.

To the other werewolves other than Lycan, Earth wasnt their birthplace, but a strange land that they had only heard of in stories.

I didnt particularly have any intention of forcing them to return to Earth. The werewolves were free to live wherever they wanted.

Lycan was worried about the werewolves that stayed behind on the moon and said that he would stay there as well. Then, the werewolves that adored Lycan also wanted to follow his decision and as a result, the werewolves became split 50-50 between the moon and Earth.

It wasnt rabbits that lived on the moon, but wolfmen

Well, it was only really Japan and China that thought there were rabbits on the moon anyhow. Depending on the country, theyll say that theres a crab or a lion, so if theres wolfmen on it, itll probably still be fine for the world line.

The werewolves that returned to Earth settled at the North and South poles, as well as on the summit of my mountain.

While I had been shaved down for a period of time by the dragons, and then had considerable destruction done by the raging storms, I was currently at an elevation of about 9000 metres above sea level. Everest was around 8800 metres, so I was Earths historically highest mountain. The summit was covered in a white cap all year round, so there was enough ice and snow for the werewolves to live there.

The air warmed by the ocean struck against my mountainside, then rose and was cooled, forming rainclouds, leading to a blessed downpour of water. It flowed down the Earths surface, and the abundance of water created a lake at the mountains base, which connected to the ocean by river. Thanks to that the mermaids occasionallywith Lorelei coming relatively frequentlycame to visit by swimming up the river.

The harpies made me into a rest point. It seems that there were always strong winds blowing near me, so it was a perfect place to rest. It seems that even for a species that chased after storms and could sleep in the middle of a hurricane, sometimes they wanted to take it easy in a moderate breeze.

And then the dwarves naturally lived in the underground tunnels inside of me.

One way or another, the four races enjoyed living life around me.

It was not only them, but other species that I was not involved with started to evolve repeatedly as they started to show signs of prospering.

The algae that turned the ocean green and converted most of the carbon dioxide into oxygen started to decrease in number with the declining temperature, and instead, it started to advance onto the land. On the coast and riversides, as well as along the lakeside, vegetation that resembled moss and ferns started to disembark onto land, and the land that hadnt shown signs of life for 4 billion years started to bud with it.

The life that had become independent from its Ocean Mother stood upon the earth, raising the curtain of a new era.