As the Magic City Stronghold struggled to hold out and Season Star and the others fought desperately against the Bone Tide, danger gathered at the other end of Blue Star, above the sea where Qin Chuan lay.
Unlike the violent clash of laws above Magic City, the energy here was more restrained—and far more terrifying.
The sky had been split in two. One half was the deathly gray-white of the Undead World, the other the chaotic dark purple of the Abyss. Yet the two colors did not collide. Like beasts poised to strike, they faced each other across a sharp divide.
The sea had long since lost its blue. It had turned murky and viscous, as though burdened with too much death and destruction.
At times, towering waves crashed against an invisible barrier. At others, the water fell eerily still, like a solid black mirror reflecting the figures in the sky.
After the Lord of the Bone Abyss descended upon Magic City, more godlike beings turned their attention to this sea, where an immense uncertainty lay hidden.
A deeper, purer aura of destruction tore through the Abyss's dark-purple veil.
A Demon God wreathed in flames of destruction descended, as though formed from pure lust for ruin. The space around him groaned beneath his presence.
The Lord of Destruction—a powerful Demon God of the Abyss known for his destructive might.
He, too, had sensed the aura of "Shadow" and the potential taking shape within it, a potential that unsettled even him.
Behind him came another Abyssal Demon God, blazing with demonic fire: the Lord of Sins.
With two true Demon Gods present, the monsters in these waters dared not show themselves. They fled in a frenzy.
At almost the same moment, new and terrifying outlines emerged from the Undead World's gray-white