[Blue_Dinosaur: It could also be possible that the game is picking those people who are not trained on purpose, though, right?]
[Laughing_Meteor: We need to start teaching basic survival skills in even more detail in our schools from the very start! This way eventually everyone will have them and the game will also be forced to choose from trained people only!]
[Paul_the_disaster: As they say, 'Where there's a will, there's a way!' If all of humanity comes together to fight for the same cause, we can definitely improve the current depressing situation…]
While the people in the chat were busy talking about various things, Zephyr noticed that the darkness had started to recede.
'Hmm? Is it already morning? I have to find the constellation before the sun fully rises or I would be stuck with no direction for an entire day…'
Thinking this in his head, Zephyr decided to step out of the shadow of the giant spearhead and go outside to do some stargazing, but the moment he was about to try to step out from his hiding spot, his heart suddenly started beating loudly!
*Thump!* *Thump!*
An insanely overbearing sense of fear and anxiousness caused his body to shudder, and he hurriedly hid back the very next moment.
"Wha-"
Before Zephyr could understand why he was feeling so anxious to step out of this small hideout location, something came crashing down from the sky at an insanely fast speed and fell not too far away from the giant spearhead!
*BOOOM!!!*
And as if some kind of 'switch' had been activated, more and more objects started falling from the sky at an insanely high speed straight onto the ash desert!
*BOOOM!!!* *BOOOM!!!* *BOOOM!!!*
It was as if missiles were falling from the sky one after another and causing massive explosions; powerful shockwaves spread in all directions, causing more ash and smoke to blow up in the air!
Zephyr hid below the massive spearhead and peeked outside only to see something so shocking that his jaw almost fell on the floor from sheer disbelief!
"What!?"
There were massive laser beams raining straight from the sky everywhere around him!
Only then did Zephyr realize what the so-called 'Heavy Rainfall' was all about!!
Acid rain and radiation rain were like child's play in front of this catastrophic disaster!
There were golden sci-fi lasers raining down on this ash desert from the sky at a speed not much slower than light!
"How is this bulsh*t even possible!?"
There were no spaceships in the sky, there were no sci-fi weapons anywhere nearby in sight, and yet, the sky was raining laser beams!
It was simply unscientific and bizarre!
"Don't tell me that the reason why there's nothing living in this desert of ash is because laser rain hits it every single day!?"
"Th-that would explain why I could find a single intact boulder or any tree or anything at all… it's all getting blasted every single day by lasers and completely erased from existence!"
Only then did Zephyr realize why there was only this spearhead left intact!
The spear was made up of silver! And silver is one of the most reflective metals out there! It can reflect the laser beam rain to some extent!
Zephyr put his hand at the silver spearhead, and sure enough, it was getting hotter with each passing moment!
"It's heating up from the continuous laser bombardment! I thought that this spearhead was here since a long time ago because it looked highly damaged, but it might be possible that this thing has only been here for a few days at most!"
Although silver can reflect laser beams to some extent, it still heats up and would still get damaged as time passes.
The damage to this spearhead likely happened in just a span of a few days, and it's likely not been here for long, or it would have already been completely destroyed with nothing left intact!
'But this also confirms that whoever used this spearhead was likely here not too long ago and the settlement of giants carved on this spear is likely still existing!'
If that settlement had existed decades ago, it would have been possible that it was destroyed or the people living in it had moved away somewhere else in search of better resources.
But the golden laser beam rainfall has cleared a lot of Zephyr's doubts!
The spearhead is likely not too old, and the settlement likely exists out there somewhere; all he needs to do is reach it somehow!
*SHOOOM!!!* *BOOM!!!* *BAM!!!* *CRACK!!!*
While Zephyr was busy thinking about various things in his head, a massive laser beam came crashing down and fell just a few inches away from the spearhead's side.
The laser beam was powerful enough to pierce the layer of ash covering the ground and crack the very ground beneath it!
*Creak~* *Creak~*
As if a literal laser beam rain was still not enough, Zephyr's bad luck decided to create even more trouble for him.
The cracks in the ground widened and destabilized the spearhead due to the loosening of the sand, and it started creaking and shaking.
Seeing this situation, Zephyr had no other choice but to support the shaky spearhead from falling with his own hands!
*Sizzle~* *Sizzle~*
By that point, the silver metal had become so hot that when Zephyr tried to support it with his hands, his palms started burning from the insanely hot temperature, and the spearhead even started melting!
"Sh*t!"
Although Zephyr had a powerful physique with insane strength and defensive capabilities, as a mortal being, he was still too far from becoming impervious to pain and intense heat!
The smell of burning meat spread in the air as molten silver started to fall down on the ground!
Only then did Zephyr realize that below the layer of ash there was a lot of molten silver that was likely hidden by the smoke and falling ash that settled down on the ground after the laser beam rain stopped yesterday!
"Tch… Why do I have such bad luck that I always find important things when it's too late!..."