Unforgettable Old Grudges, Lying in Wait to Reap the Harvest

Verdant Grandma's eye bags drooped, her face sagged. Before she had even met Black Shadow, her impression of him had been especially poor.

Back then, Black Shadow's left hand had pierced through the heavens and fallen into the Dead Sea. It had not merely turned the Dead Sea into what it was today; it had also brought calamity upon the sea.

In today's Dead Sea, the strongest batch of living creatures had become ferocious sea beasts. All the other sea clans had withdrawn, and there was little contact between the various islands. On the smaller islands, there were not even many stronger living creatures left.

It could not be said that all of this had been caused by Black Shadow, but he had absolutely been the beginning and the fuse.

Back then, experts of the sea clans and human experts alike had gathered from every faction. At first, they believed a strange treasure had fallen from the heavens. Some powerful figures had detected the aura of an Innate Material, so especially many people had gone to fight over it.

Conflict, death, chaos—they had raged noisily and painfully for years. On top of that, there were people with differing agendas, people fishing in troubled waters, and people looting burning houses. Casualties were severe for a time.

Only after the struggle had reached its end did they gradually discover the truth. This enormous thing was merely the transformed left hand of a powerful figure, and this fiend's consciousness had been hiding within it.

The reason for the devastating casualties and the many people with ulterior motives had been that this fiend was behind the scenes, fanning the flames.

Thus, in the end, everyone joined forces to seal this island. The experts who had been in the Dead Sea, aided by others, created