A Journey Through The Worlds 89 What Was The Gray Fog.

And just like that, Karl was considered died in action and his corpse was never found.

The disappearance of their enemies was also a weird phenomenon that made everyone there feel creeped out so they all hurriedly left that place as fast as they could not wanting to stay there for another minute.

Area 06 & area 05:

For people in both areas 05 and 06, the Gray Fog came as a surprise as they weren't expecting it but it still didn't bring with it many differences as it didn't really change anything and they kept on living their lives normally... at least for the first day.

As they did face their respective problems because of it, yet the normal people didn't know a thing about that as it was hidden well by the authorities.

The only thing that could be considered as an unusual thing from the point of view of the people was the disappearances that happened form time to time when the Gray Fog was their, but still even though those disappearance were happening in a lot of places all over both areas, because of the governments in both areas doing this best to try and keep it under control no confusion or panic happened.

So in the end except for the fear of the unknown that the Gray Fog brought there was nothing else unusual in those two areas.

Area 02:

Ethan was looking at the destroyed enemy troops in front of him not knowing what to think.

Earlier he was in his palace when suddenly and out of nowhere the Gray Fog appeared and covered everything.

Of course, he was surprised at first as he didn't understand what was happening at all, he didn't know if it was a natural phenomenon or an attack from area 01or something like that.

But soon enough he remembered that it was around the time that Adam said the attack on their area would happen, so he got what was left of his royal guard in area 02 ready and waited for any information about an attack or anything like that, and soon enough he was contacted by an ability user from Snake's area who told him that enemy troops were found there.

So as fast as possible Ethan teleported there.

Of course, he wasn't able to make it there directly as he didn't have anyone under him who has such a strong teleportation ability so he just teleported small distances till he made it there.

Thinking that the attack was an attack by area 01 using their best troops and weapons he was a litter bit worried about what might happen to his warriors, but what awaited him as he made it there was a big surprise.

He saw that they were really people from area 01, that didn't come as a surprise, but what surprised him a little was that they weren't elite troops at all, they had wars.h.i.+ps and weapons that seemed worst then anything he saw in their battles against them before, and that wasn't all, even the soldiers didn't seem that special, they seemed more like headless chickens then elite troops.

Seeing all that he wondered it those poor soldiers were just a diversion used by area 01 to pull his attention as their real target was must be in another location in area 01.

So in his anger, he destroyed everything there in no more than three seconds leaving only two soldiers alive from the whole army there as he asked his soldiers to interrogate them and see what they could get.

After he left them those orders he turned around and decided to return to his nation and wait for anything new from there, and as he was returning he thought about just what was happening and how could the soldiers from area 01 appear there without anyone noticing them even though they were so weak and unprofessional, and most of all he wondered about what the reason for them appearing there as they simply died without doing anything.

So with a head full of unanswered questions, he returned to his nation.

***

The weird Gray Fog stayed for a whole day in the new timing which meant that it stayed for two days and a half.

In those two days and half all the areas with intelligent life forms were able to notice that since the Gray Fog appeared and as long as it stayed people started disappearing without leaving a trace behind them, and in some cases some weird people or things which they weren't familiar with appeared out of nowhere.

And in most of those cas where people appeared out of nowhere even them themselves weren't able to explain how they made it there, it was as if they were brought there without them knowing or feeling anything.

Of course, it was a weird unusual phenomenal and no one was able to explain it, so it stayed as one of the mysteries of the new earth.

What people didn't know was that the gray fog was actually a natural phenomenon that occurred because of the combination of the multivers.

It happened because even though the multivers was already combined and become only one universe, it was still unstable and not as stable as a normal universe.

And the reason of it being unstable was because even though all the earths and universes combined almost every resident of an area be it a human an animal or an object or a machine were all in their respective areas.

Only a small few of them left their areas and headed toward other areas, and only that would make the multiverse a little bit more stable.

So what the gray fog did was that after it covered the whole new earth, it started teleporting people animals monsters and even machines and other things randomly from their area to another one.

And when it comes to area 25, there actually wasn't 25 areas in the multiverse but 24, and the 25th area was just an area that appeared as a representative of the state of the combined multiverse, so if the multiverse finally became stable, area 25 might become another normal lifeless piece of land, or it will just stay as the Link between the other 24 areas...

Actually the random teleportation that happened because of the Gray Fog was a big problem, and just in those two days it gave big problems to many areas.

Like how it teleported some monsters from area 16 which is just a land full of monsters which appeared because of a nuclear war and biological weapons to area 05 which had to use a lot of weapons and lose a great number of soldiers to deal with them as they weren't ready for it at all, what's worst they had to do it secretly as they didn't want the people to panic.

And also how it teleported zombies from area 17 to area 06, Dan's and Leonard's world, but fortunately as they were kind of ready for it, and also because those zombies were the weakest type of zombies you could find in area 17 all the zombies were killed before any infection was made.

The reason why people front area 06 were ready for it was because the whole area entered a state of high alert after a dinosaurs appeared inside a military ba.s.s and started rampaging everywhere, so because of that and because they didn't understand what was happening at all. all the countries in area 06 entered a high alert state which saved them from a world destroying disaster known as zombies.

But that made them more careful about any unusual thing happening in the period of the Gray Fog.

There was also another thing about the gray fog and its ability to teleport, you see if someone has already left his area then the gray fog won't work on him, as those type of people were already far away from their areas and the thing that the Gray Fog wanted was to send people to new areas so that the new world would be more stable, so the Gray Fog doesn't work on those that had already left their area and were on another one.

On the waters of area 10: on top of Barbarossa:

The gray fog was finally gone after one whole day 'new timing' and everyone on the s.h.i.+p were on top of it enjoying the sunny weather and ocean breeze after two days and half of not seeing anything but gray, actually they were quite relaxed after the gray fog was finally gone as it had put them in an even worst state then the one that they that they were already in, all that was because they didn't understand what was happening at all.

Randy was standing next to Dan, he wasn't as he appeared in usual as he had an unknown sea bird on his shoulder that sea bird didn't appear to be concerned about what was happening around at all it as it only set there calmly, Randy patted it on the head as he asked Dan:

"So you still don't have any idea about what that gray fog was"

"Yeah I totally don't know what it was, and I have no memories about it at all" Dan said while nodding his head.

"Well nothing wrong happened so I think that there's no point in thinking about it anymore, right" Randy said.

"Yeah that's right, nothing bad happened and we didn't suffer from anything in those days when the gray fog was covering the land, we didn't even have to slow down or stop our trip so yeah nothing changed at all" Dan said, before turning his face toward Randy while smiling as he looked at the sea bird on his shoulder:

"So how do you find life as an ability user"

Yes, Randy did awake an ability, that happened in the seventh day after he get the bow, that wasn't a fast speed of awakening but it wasn't that slow either, so they were all happy for him.

The ability that he get was quite interesting, it was the ability to control animals, actually, it wasn't total control, as his ability made him more likable by the animals and it also made him able to take to them.

Actually, because the way they awoke their abilities wasn't normal, everyone who used the soul weapon to awake had a little problem that normal awakened people didn't have, and that problem was that they weren't too sure about their abilities.

Because as it was said before, when someone awakens their ability normally they get all the information they need to know about it and they start using it normally, yet for Dan's group who used the bow as a way to activate their powers they face a small problem in that regard as they won't get any information about what ability they had awakened, and even if they got some knowledge about it they wouldn't be one hundred percent sure about what their abilities were, so they would always suffer a little at the beginning to understand what it truly was.

And unfortunately for him Randy was the first one who had to deal with that problem, as unlike the other two, Leonard and Katherine, the soul weapon didn't give any clues about what his ability might be and because he didn't awake naturally he didn't get any information about his ability after he awoke, so in the end he and Dan had to find what his ability really was.

Fortunately, he was a little bit lucky as his ability was noticed when he heard a weird voice in his head as a small bird set in his shoulder.

He was surprised at first as he didn't understand what was happening at all, but as he tried to take with the source of the voice he understood that it was really the voice of that small bird who set on top of his shoulder, of course, the language of the little bird wasn't that good because of its limited intelligent, but he was still able to understand what it wanted and meant because of his ability.