God of Tricksters

On the way back, Theo said, "I'm sure you want to learn many things after reaching this level, but wait until we're back first, OK?"

"Don't worry. I'm not in a rush." Rea chuckled. "Still, did you get the same feeling as we did in the past?"

"Not the same, but yes. It notified me about your progress."

"I see. Still, thank you for giving me this opportunity, Teacher." Rea bowed to Theo.

"The opportunity, huh? You are the one creating the opportunity. If you didn't train like crazy to your level right now, you wouldn't have become my assistant. If you didn't work hard as an assistant, I would have kicked you out. If you didn't practice hard under me, I would have stopped teaching you. That's why I wasn't the one giving you the opportunity, it's yourself."

"Nevertheless, I won't be here without you. So, thank you."

Feeling Rea's gratitude, Theo stopped talking and received it properly. "You're welcome. Keep working hard from now on."

"Yes." Rea smiled before looking at Agata. "Now that I think about it, what should I call you? Mistress…"

Rea still felt awkward calling her this way. On the one hand, Agata was her teacher's fiancee, so calling her 'Mistress' was appropriate. On the other hand, Agata was her friend. Unlike Theo, who was her boss, it was awkward for Rea to call her with this weird hierarchy.

"Just call me Agata. Mistress makes me look older." Agata chuckled.

"I understand." Rea nodded with a serious expression, thinking it might change soon after it didn't feel that awkward anymore.

Of course, Rea didn't spend all the time with her family alone in the past few days. She had been getting all the information while staying in that mansion.

There was one particular matter that piqued her interest.

"That's right, Teacher. I have something to tell you." Rea recalled all the information and constructed the sentence. "There seems to be a weird movement coming from the sea. People are confused about it, but there is no explanation for it right now."

Theo didn't say anything as if he had known about it.

Rea scratched the back of her head and said, "it seems my warning is not necessary."

"No, no. I don't have the information about that, but I kind of expect it to happen. Show me the report."

Rea took out her Skylink and showed the world's map. There was a red line on the coast of Japan. "According to the information, there are a few weird occurrences happening on the coast, such as the appearance of numerous flying monsters and the change in the ocean tides."

"Hmm…" Theo narrowed his eyes while looking at the map. "Can you check whether other bases are affected as well?"

"Certainly. Give me a moment." Rea checked a few documents before getting the report. "The same occurrence is happening in the US Base as well, precisely at the coast in South and North Caroline. But because our base hasn't expanded that much, we haven't been able to get that much information.

"Still, there seems to be an indication something is happening right now. We can't see what it is right now, but we should get some pictures in the next few weeks."

"I see." Theo fell into deep thought.

Meanwhile, Rea remembered the reason why Theo allowed Rea to choose Kentucky as their base.

At that time, Theo told her that there would be two problems that could threaten humans after the radiation. They were chemicals and trash.

In the past, trash, chemicals, and radiation were the primary problems that almost ruined this planet.

There was also a pollution problem, but it was already half-solved before the appearance of the teleportation circles. Some of it was solved by Magic Power as well, allowing them to fix this pollution problem. Even the Skylink used a solar panel on its body to make the Skylink last for so long to the point one never had the need to charge it again if they didn't use Skylink to play a game or something.

However, the radiation from the nuclear fission reactions caused a lot of trouble and harmed a lot of areas. And this plague turned into something that endangered humanity when it began producing mutated monsters.

Luckily, Theo had solved one of them, and all the bases should know they had to clean up the radiated area from time to time so that the incident didn't happen again. So, the problem was solved, leaving only the trash and chemicals problems.

There was a lot of chemical waste polluting the water. Some of them might be treated, but the rest were thrown away to either the sea or the river.

Learning from what happened with the radiation, she was afraid that this chemical would cause the monsters to mutate again and begin to attack them. This time, the chemical would come from within the base, so they had to create a countermeasure to prevent casualties.

From the rough speculation alone, humanity had been reduced to twenty percent of the previous population after the apocalypse, so they shouldn't drop any further to avoid getting humans in no position to resist the monsters.

So, Rea planned to check this problem after coming back. However, she had another concern, the trash.

The trash problem was like a never ending problem. Despite knowing they had to throw the trash into the bins, there were so many people who ignored it. Even if one country could do it, there would be other countries that couldn't.

And all that trash would pile up and, in the worst case, get carried to the sea.

Seeing how the problem was related to the coast, Rea was afraid this was the problem. The animals couldn't do anything when the humans polluted the sea with trash.

But the apocalypse changed it. The animals had turned into monsters and there were also other monsters from the other side. Since the world was filled with water, the trash surely spread all over the world, causing annoyance to the living creatures in the sea.

And she was afraid those creatures would start to fight back.