At this moment,
many people felt immense unease:
As members of the Night Watch, if even they fell, what would happen to Coastal City?
This was no time for jokes.
So even though their training had greatly strengthened their resistance to the fear of the abyss,
their worries for the town and the city's millions of residents finally made the suddenly rising tension impossible to conceal.
Everyone's hearts were filled with confusion and anxiety:
"What exactly happened inside the Projection Relic?"
This thought echoed repeatedly through everyone's mind, yet no one could provide an answer.
But Liu Yun, the manager of this operation, merely spoke in an exceptionally calm tone:
"Don't panic.
The more powerful a Spiritual Energy Trait is, the greater its spiritual energy consumption. Not to mention, there is no recyclable source of Abyssal Contamination.
What have I always told you?
From now on, all of you will remain calm!"
And the decision she made now was indeed absolutely rational.
After all, the current phenomenon was completely different from the first time Su Wen had been drawn by Kunlun into a simulated Projection Relic.
It had only one source:
That was:
After an enormous temporal-spatial displacement, the Grand Arcana's Hermit Ritual had finally begun operating successfully.
At this moment,
Kunlun's Projection Relic had completely engulfed this Jiangnan tourist town, which had originally been brimming with New Year festivities.
And on the most critical Data Core battlefield, beneath that sky completely swallowed by darkness,
beside Su Wen,
as a low, lingering, nameless hymn arose, the once-silent space seemed to suddenly begin flowing rapidly. A massive storm gathered around the handsome Scholar.
Then,
an ancient and mysterious power swept down across the entire space. Countless cross-shaped marks shone like stars, interweaving and rotating in the air before finally converging into