"Whoosh—boom!"
An even larger wave swallowed the one before it, crushing the towering Rock Wall and destroying everything in its path with irresistible force. It slammed heavily into the vegetation-covered hill. Amid a thunderous crash and the sounds of trees toppling and splitting apart, water burst forth, turning into massive jets that shot in every direction before falling back into the lake-like sea behind the wave, raising huge ripples with sharp slaps.
Then, the surging water slowly flowed back down the hill's steep slope. Amid the rushing sound like a waterfall, it gradually receded with the spent, lake-like current toward the center of the grassland, where the water sphere had burst, leaving behind a drenched and miserable mess on the hill.
"Crack... crack-crack..."
At that moment, while the water rushing northward began to flow back, the cracks covering the stone lotus at the center finally shattered. The entire stone lotus instantly collapsed into rubble, clattering into the water, which had nearly risen to where it connected with the stone pillar. It slowly sank, and together with the shattered stone pillar beneath it, gradually vanished during its descent.
Then, beneath the night sky, the entire grassland, now submerged beneath a lake-like expanse of water, was left only with the sounds of trickling and roaring currents, along with the great streams of water continuously dispersing south, east, and west.
Everything returned to a kind of moving stillness.
Everything from the battle before had already been swallowed by the overwhelming, incomparably surging lake-like waters, like the power of nature itself, quietly drifting along with the current.
As the water flowed on, its surface slowly began to fall. Gradually, at the edges of the water—in front of the northern hill, and to the south, west, and east—the water began to dry up, slowly exposing