'This should make the era a bit easier for humans. Due to the increased oxygen and the surviving wildlife, they will recover quicker and create the first Extractors faster.'
'With time, the Eternal Hunger and the False Hope will slowly be reintroduced, and the wildlife will die once again, but by then, humanity should have enough seeds to grow food in cities.'
Nick wanted to minimize humanity's suffering as much as possible, but humanity still had to suffer.
He didn't enjoy doing this, but it had to be done.
After giving his orders, Nick did his own job.
He inspected all of the remaining Barriers in the world and destroyed almost all of them.
It was important that humanity's technological progress wasn't too fast.
He left some bits of knowledge in dangerous places.
Some explorers had to be rewarded to motivate them to grow more powerful.
Nick decided to go with a high-risk, high-reward approach.
