After being forced to step down, the once-annoying nun eloped with me.

Suddenly, his two frail legs bore the weight of two women. The immense pressure made Yang Hao feel somewhat strained, but in that strain, he also became more aware of the differences between Finn and Theresa.

If the voluptuous Theresa is the kind of soft "heavy," like a water bag, if you hold it with your fingers spread out, you can feel the weight of something sinking between your fingers.

Fen is like a small wooden frame or a vase. As long as it can be supported, it will feel light and easy. It is a petite yet substantial presence.

"Each has its own flavor," Yang Hao muttered to himself. Just then, Theresa suddenly spoke up, saying that it seemed there would be another period of good stability ahead.

"Thinking about it carefully, it seems like we haven't stopped doing anything significant since we got together."

The nun leaned comfortably against Yang Hao, speaking while brushing her white hair aside and stroking Yang Hao's neck.

"Either the parish is about to invade, or the Bayezids are about to rise, or the Isogardians will follow closely behind, or the barbarians from the north are coming—thinking about it, apart from a lot of shooting stars lately, it seems like we've really entered a long period of peace..."

"That's true. From the elves' perspective... so much has happened in just one or two years... sigh, they're really busy."

Fen shrugged. It would be fine if she, being petite, leaned against Yang Hao alone, but if Theresa also leaned against him, it would inexplicably make people think of a parent and daughter.

"But what follows should be a period of true stability—Constantinople will be able to recuperate, and the elves can finally relax and design everything in their spare time... By the way, have you heard? Arthur seems to have to hold a new wedding ceremony, the reason being something like, 'Polygamy has started, you should set an example'..."

"...That's really going to be tough. How many people are getting married this time?" Yang Hao blinked, worried about Arthur's health.

“Besides Viya. And it seems they even chose Viya as a witness.” Fen’s lips twitched. “But Viya seems to have already won them over... so being a witness shouldn’t be a big deal, right?”

"Heh? I can roughly imagine Viya using Arthur like a toy for his mother at night..."

"Toy?"

"that is..."

Theresa began whispering to Finn, while Yang Hao looked up at the ceiling, able to hear clearly even with his eyes closed what Theresa meant by "toy".

Finn's face flushed crimson. To a conservative elf, she might not understand the needs humans have when they are alone—but after Theresa's explanation, she understood quite clearly...

That said, Arthur had no choice but to get married... In the end, this man couldn't escape the reality of having over twenty lovers.

It's truly tragic and heartbreaking. Hopefully, Arthur can continue to contribute his value before he becomes a dried-up corpse.

Yang Hao stroked the two women's hair. Feeling the completely different sensations from their hands, he sighed softly.

But just as they were enjoying a rare period of peace, an accident occurred.

It started with a commotion outside the window. Before Finn and Theresa could go to the window to investigate, the office door was opened from the outside just as they were halfway there.

Without even knocking, the urgency of the situation was evident—just as Yang Hao frowned, preparing to calm his adjutant Kate down, a panting Kate blurted out these words first:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...! A piece of land has appeared in the sky, and it's falling towards our territory! What should we do?!"

"what?!"

A piece of land... in the sky?!

Yang Hao and the others rushed to the window. They opened the window and looked up at the sky, only to see a whole patch of shadow.

They stared in disbelief as the colossal object that had blocked out the sun slowly descended from the sky, watching menacing purple flames erupt from beneath a landmass that was perhaps larger than the entire Bayer Zion territory combined, and seeing countless clods of earth and rocks fall from beneath that landmass.

“…What the hell is that?” Theresa’s pupils trembled as she watched the bizarre scene unfold before her. She couldn’t understand why a continent had suddenly appeared in the sky, much less why purple flames were erupting from beneath it: “Those things…those things?! Is that…magic? No, that’s not magic we know at all?! That’s not the point! The point is…why is it above us?!”

A continent suddenly appeared in the sky above Constantinople—even a fool could tell that this was no longer a problem that a powerful magician or a saint could solve! It was an entire continent!

Even if it were just lightly applied, Constantinople would be completely obliterated, not to mention that if this landmass were to crash down, half of the Demon Forest and Gaparia would be annihilated...

So what exactly is this?! What should we do now?!

Why would I suddenly play such a ridiculous joke on them at a time like this? Why?

Theresa was speechless. She barely managed to stay upright on the windowsill, her body trembling with fear, preventing her from collapsing to the ground. Beside her, the pale-faced elf knew all too well that at this stage, the entire United Kingdom had no chance of preventing the continent from falling.

The elves had no power, the United Kingdom had no power, and even some gods who were not powerful enough could not throw the continent in the sky to other places—the elves knew very well that the purple flames spewing from the bottom of that continent were actually the burning magic power!

A continent where magic is constantly surging and burning, it is a whole magic bomb... Just its impact alone could bring annihilation to half of the continent of Elusia, not to mention the impact of the magical residue that will spew out after the explosion on the entire continent.

Any resistance is futile against this colossal entity that has suddenly appeared here...

Knowing all this, Finn's immediate instinct was to use teleportation magic to take Yang Hao and Theresa away to a safe place...

But where can we go?

Fen stared blankly and palely as the continent slowly descended from the sky. In fact, everyone who saw the continent in the sky felt the same way.

They looked at the continent that blocked out the sun in despair, and even though they wanted to escape, they were too desperate to know what to do.

Everyone was frozen in despair in the face of what seemed like an inevitable death, but Yang Hao saw a chance to survive.

"It's heading towards the western coast!" Yang Hao gritted his teeth and immediately gave his order: "Moreover, the magical flames below are a kind of [buffer device]! It's preventing the entire continent from falling at high speed. We still have time!"

Without saying a word, Yang Hao immediately turned around and shouted loudly to the adjutants and guards who were at a loss for what to do:

"Have all mages with teleportation abilities immediately proceed to the western side of the port and city! Use magic to erect the thickest magical barrier! We must withstand the tsunami and shockwaves generated by that continent crashing into the ocean! Hurry!"

He then grabbed Finn by the shoulder and issued a second command to the pale-faced elf:

"Fen! Go immediately and inform Narudya to have her and the Ling people in Constantinople lead the Bayrjans to the west, to build a gentle slope at least five meters high at the starting point of the magic barrier, which is outside the field—using everything they can find—and have everyone take all the tools they need to get there! We still have time!"

"But what's the point?! Yang Hao, I can take everyone away right now, now—"

"Believe me! We can pull through!"

The elf was silent for a moment, then gritted her teeth and nodded. She teleported away, and immediately the Constantinople residents outside the window began to move according to Yang Hao's orders.

The moment Yang Hao issued the order, all the desperate residents grasped at their backbone and last hope. They also realized that the continent that blotted out the sky wasn't falling immediately. It was slowly drifting towards the western coast, and it looked like it would take at least ten minutes, maybe even half an hour, to completely crash down.

When that time comes, this floating continent will crash directly into the ocean. With some buffering, the damage it causes to the continent of Elusia won't be as great as imagined—although it might bring extremely powerful earthquakes, tsunamis, or even trigger a dormant volcano, these disasters are nothing compared to the entire continent of Elusia becoming a wasteland!

Yang Hao calmly assessed that after the continent fell, the greatest loss it would bring to the United Nations would be only a violent earthquake—with almost all the citizens rushing out, doing everything in their power to create high walls of mud and stone, and using magical barriers to form one-way cover... the casualties and losses caused by the earthquake would be negligible.

But Yang Hao knew he had to stop the tsunami.

“We can’t let the tsunami destroy our port, and more importantly, we can’t let it erode our fields.” Yang Hao took Teresa’s hand, and the nun, who was at a loss for what to do, watched as the land in the sky slowly descended to the west. “We absolutely cannot let too much seawater enter our fields... otherwise, our fertile land will turn into saline-alkali land, and our harvest, which has just begun this year, will be completely wiped out—now that it is almost certain that half of the grassland will be hit by the tsunami, at least we must protect our fields.”

"...What can I do?"

"Theresa, go and soothe the hearts of the people... Use your radiant power to instill confidence in our people—this is the most desperate time, and our people need someone to lead them to their feet. Go."

"...I see."

Theresa took a deep breath and nodded. She embraced her husband with all her might, then chanted the scriptures of light, expanding her divine magic and power throughout the entire sphere of influence of Bayezid.

With a growing number of followers, Theresa's divine magic experienced explosive growth. Although offensive divine magic was utterly insignificant to the celestial continent and could not possibly shatter it... at least Theresa's [Tranquility] spell could ensure that Bayez and the elves would not be overwhelmed by despair.

Through her efforts, Yang Hao could see the despair on the faces of the officials and soldiers remaining in the palace gradually subside. He had given all the orders he could, and it was at this moment that Fen returned with Naruja, and just as they returned, the black dragon Nia rushed in from outside, her face pale.

“It seems we’ve done everything we could.” Finn’s face was still pale, but seeing the calmness on Yang Hao’s face, she regained some courage. “We couldn’t possibly complete the goal you specified before the continent crashed—but at least the magic barrier…we’ve accomplished that.”

As she spoke, a thick, semi-transparent barrier appeared in the distance outside the Constantinople farmland, extending quite a distance towards the pastures.

Finn said she had used all the magic storage equipment stored here in Constantinople, which would later be transported to the port to trade with Isgard—with the help of excess magic, the magic barrier was thicker than Grandpa had imagined. This was good news.

However, due to the expansion of the magic barrier, the high walls that people need to build to withstand tsunamis will become shorter because of the increased number of constructions... Although some elven mages are helping to increase the height of the walls, the vast majority of magic power is used to maintain the operation of the magic barrier.

"Shockwave...shockwave may destroy the magic barrier instantly, or it may hold out—the port has evacuated everyone as much as possible after leaving the magic barrier."

"It's only been less than five minutes... and we've already done everything we could."

Yang Hao sighed. He looked at the growing crowd outside the door.

He squeezed past the black dragon Nia, hugged the pale-faced Natalia and stroked her hair, then knelt down and hugged Anna in his arms as well.

He has done everything he could.

But all that's left is to wait for the results.

.............

The Sky Continent fell twenty minutes later—for example, half an hour had passed since it first appeared.

As it fell, the Bayrzans had barely managed to erect a semi-circular wall of earth and stone encircling their fields and capital on their pastures. All the Bayrzans and elves frantically tried to raise the wall, but the instant the continent crashed into the sea, a torrent of flames erupted from its base, evaporating the seawater and inexplicably suspending it above the surface.

However, the power of the magical flames still strongly impacted the seabed exposed after the idiot had evaporated most of the seawater.

The seabed cracked, and gas began to seep into the fissures from the seabed or push away the surrounding seawater. Witnessed by the already airborne Eagle Knights, waves tens of meters high immediately spread outwards from the point of impact on the land, and they continued to grow taller and taller... until finally reaching a height even greater than the tallest building in the port, enough to engulf the entire ranch area, and even possessing the potential to crash into the Monster Forest.

Fortunately, there was no shockwave, and the earthquake was not as strong as expected—the Eagle Knights breathed a sigh of relief.

Realizing they had escaped the most dangerous ordeal, they couldn't help but cheer high in the sky:

"Our magic barrier can prevent those waves from directly impacting the harbor! And if the shockwaves and earthquakes don't cause too much damage to the magic barrier, the losses will be even less than expected! This is fantastic!"

"Idiot! Is it because this continent didn't crash directly onto our heads?! And it's not time to celebrate yet! The backflowing seawater will still destroy most of the port!!"

"Don't forget our orders! Quickly scout the situation on that land! Hurry! We can't let any potential operators on that land raise that thing again! Hurry!"

The Eagle Riders seized the opportunity to ascend into the sky and fulfill their duties, while on the ground, people waited in fear for the impact of the tsunami after the brief earthquake.

The tsunami, tens of meters high, first crashed into the magic barrier in front of the port. After a brief diversion, most of the seawater passed directly over the port and then began to flow back under the influence of gravity. Finally, the magic barrier prevented the port from being submerged, turning it into a city in a fish tank.

The seawater, unaffected by the magical barrier of the port, continued its momentum towards the forest. As the distance increased, the height of the tsunami decreased, and by the time it reached the magical barrier in front of Constantinople, its impact was no longer sufficient to threaten the barrier and the earthen wall behind it.

Under the jubilant gaze of the people, the seawater crashed against the barrier, creating white waves before flowing back. The impact of this tsunami on the United Nations had ended, and the remaining portion that had flooded into the Monster Forest was only a negligible loss.

The greatest damage the tsunami caused to the United Nations was the flooded ports and the grasslands that began to accumulate seawater due to the terrain. The seawater irrigated the grasslands, and it was foreseeable that much of the pasture would wither and die because it could not tolerate the salinity.

However, thanks to Yang Hao's handling of the situation, the farmland and some pastures around Constantinople were preserved, and the originally desperate residents in the port had long been evacuated. Although he could not avoid all the losses, he was able to limit the losses to the undeveloped pastures and the port, which can be considered an epic victory.

But now is not the time to relax.

"Immediately prepare our troops to land on that land," Yang Hao ordered. "And instruct the residents not to approach the port for the time being, but have the mages cancel the magic barrier to reduce the area's magic consumption—if possible, we also need to divert the seawater from the ranch area as soon as possible..."

The seawater accumulated on the ranch must be diverted. Unless Yang Hao will spend the rest of his life worrying about the ranch's saline-alkali land, it is best to carry out the diversion work as soon as possible.

The Demon Forest couldn't help. After all, Yang Hao didn't have the ability to divert seawater within the forest—and ultimately, the forest's self-healing properties should be able to handle some of the problems; the forest's ecological strength was far greater than that of the grasslands...

Besides the disaster relief efforts, Yang Hao was most concerned about the possible military operations that might follow.

Without a doubt, the "buffering" that took place on that continent proves that it belongs to someone. Regardless of the intentions of those who have given such a big surprise to the continent of Elusia, Yang Hao must be prepared to fight them.

After all, no one can guarantee that the continent will rise again and actually crash down on their head. If they could seize control of whether that continent rises or falls, then at least Yang Hao could sleep peacefully tonight instead of sitting anxiously restless.

(I almost threw up just now...)

Despite the churning stomach acid, Yang Hao calmly issued orders to everyone. Under his command, the western regions of the United Nations were fully mobilized, and aid from Japaria was steadily arriving.

The army was assembling, and the residents, under orderly command, were digging drainage ditches to divert seawater to the coast. Yang Hao, while receiving the Tranquility spell from Theresa, waited for reports from the Eagle Knights.

He waited, but after a while, the Eagle Knight's report did not come. Instead, a visible anomaly appeared on the floating continent.

The sounds of weapons firing and flashes of light appeared in the sky above the continent—but the targets of the weapons were not visible to the naked eye. If one had to pinpoint a source, the sounds likely originated from within the continent itself, while on the outer edge, all one could see were towering walls bearing the marks of time.

"So it seems it crashed because of the battle on land?" Yang Hao frowned. "And if there are no surprises, the intensity of the battle up there might be greater than we imagined—more importantly, how could they continue fighting while the entire continent was crashing down? Are all the people up there monsters?!"