Chapter 1155: The True Reason

"Yeah. Something like that. The background is similar to an abandoned city." Clovis nodded.

"OK. What’s next?"

"The monster has four legs. I don’t know... It might be similar to a dog? What’s the breed again? A dobermann? It is quite big. Three meters tall and six meters long, I believe. It has claws and four very long tails. Let’s see? About 8 meters long tails? It’s able to lift them up easily and use it to attack. The skin is black as if it’s been infected or something."

"Something like this?" Melody took some time to create the model, but she finally finished it.

"It’s quite similar. There are a few spots that you can change to make it look even more similar, but it can wait for another time." Clovis nodded. "This is the monster."

"The monster was similar to a Tier 7 beast in terms of strength. I should be able to cut it down, but... I couldn’t.

"My strength was higher than what I currently possess, but I couldn’t kill it instantly. That’s because of my equipment.

"My long sword was full of cracks. My short sword was completely broken.

"So, I blocked its attack with my long sword. I must have used a soft technique to receive it to avoid further damaging my sword, but it allowed the creature to have an easier time doing something else.

"It attacked you... yes, you, with its four tails. I swung my broken sword and generated enough force to knock the tail away, before pulling the monster in and kicking its head from below. Then, I slashed the body. I couldn’t even slash through it because I was worried about the sword.

"In the end, I finished the beast with a stomp. After we were done, you told me that we needed to strip some metals or steel from the building to get some materials to reforge my sword. That’s all. I woke up after that."

After hearing Clovis’ recollection, they looked quite concerned.

"So, this creature was quite strong, but you were much stronger. You just couldn’t defeat it easily because of your broken weapons." Kanaria gasped. "What’s the distribution center doing? Did I not do anything?"

Hana shook her head. "No. If you think about it, there might not be enough materials to do things like that. If we’re talking about a total apocalypse, this means routes will be cut off completely.

"For example, if you don’t have access to the mines, you won’t get a fresh supply of metals. Then, we need a processing facility all the way to the blacksmith.

"At the same time, a normal metal won’t be able to withstand a Tier 7 beast. I mean, even steel is not enough. That’s why we usually use the beast’s materials to create weapons. We use them to kill them.

"However, if we couldn’t get any materials from this creature, that meant we had no choice but to rely on basic metals. If you had to fight such strong beasts with basic metals... I don’t think I need to tell you what would happen.

"You needed to be careful that your weapons didn’t snap. So, the apocalypse should go differently from this simulation world.

"In this world, we could still use the beasts as our materials. That was why we could reconnect with other parts of the world quickly. More people survived, so more human resources could be utilized.

"On the other hand, this real world... without anything to fight these creatures, many more people would have died.

"In the simulation world, it was known that 90% of the population died. But in reality, it might be 99%. Without any resources, it was clear what kind of situation we were currently facing."

Hana’s explanation was understandable. They didn’t expect that the situation in the real world was much more severe than they had originally thought. It was really not a utopia over there.

"Wait. If you are lacking all the resources to survive, why would you even create this simulation world? Was it to see if they had a fighting chance or something?" Aileen asked, feeling off about something.

If survival was their priority, there was no reason for them to create the simulation world. It would be best to do everything to survive.

"They are doing everything they can to survive..." Erwin looked down, contemplating.

Melody turned to Clovis and said, "They do this for Clovis. In that case, what makes Clovis more special... Wait a minute."

Mara understood where the conversation was going and added, "I managed to transfer my own ability to Clovis. In that case, wouldn’t he also have his own special ability?"

"Another World Mall?!"

"Yes." Melody pointed to Hana. "You, the money generator... We need money to upgrade Clovis’ power."

"Ah!" Hana gasped, realizing the fundamental problem. "You mean... once the apocalypse started, the currency was completely crushed. You couldn’t simply print money. That wasn’t how the currency was supposed to work.

"The current fiat currency worked because people recognized it, but in the apocalypse, there weren’t a lot of people to recognize the worth of that money. So, it was basically useless. The mall couldn’t be upgraded.

"Then gold? Gold is useless because no one cares about gold if survival is a problem.

"In that case, to upgrade Clovis’s ability, we need a place to get currency.

"That’s why this world was created." Hana facepalmed. She never thought this was the reason for this world to have been created.

Melody nodded with a serious expression. "We used extinct beasts to simulate the power of those creatures, not too similar, but similar enough to match the situation. Clovis is good at fighting, so it’s better to create a world that is quite dangerous to display his ability. If it’s the era before the apocalypse, Clovis might take too long to generate money. He’s not you, Hana.

"The plan is to upgrade the mall. This is basically our last chance. We must know about the supermarket, so we will be wondering... what if Clovis can get a lot of other things such as equipment and other materials from the mall?"

Hana agreed and uttered the most important part. "We could solve the supply shortage."