As the players continued to wear it down, the Order Flameglow atop the Eternal Summit went out.
Yet no new Kindling came to take over from the Order Kindling and continue burning.
And with the extinction of the Order Flameglow, a series of consequences began to emerge.
First and foremost, the order blockade around the Eternal Peak vanished.
"Quick! The blockade's gone! Get up there and grab the Rekindled Flame!"
The Prison Players reacted swiftly. The instant they saw the blockade disappear, they shouted and sprang into action, rapidly climbing the Eternal Summit in an effort to seize the Rekindled Flame as soon as possible.
The disappearance of the order blockade was clearly only the most superficial consequence.
What followed was that the world, deprived of its flameglow, began to darken rapidly.
"The light's gone!"
"The temperature's dropping too!"
Many players keenly noticed this, and the process was accelerating, gradually spreading from the surrounding environment to themselves.
"Fuck! I feel like my screen's about to go black. I can barely see anything already!"
"My body's freezing stiff!"
"Quick! Faster! We have to get the Rekindled Flame soon. I've got a feeling something bad will happen if we drag this out any longer!"
"What the fuck do you need a premonition for?"
Everything happening before their eyes had already made them understand that the extinction of the Order Flameglow projection was not entirely a good thing for them.
In the history of bygone eras,
even a mere projection of a past Kindling still followed the most fundamental rule from before the Extinguishing Moment: Kindling sustained all things.
Without Kindling, the world would undoubtedly usher in—an Extinguishing Moment.
"The Order Flameglow went out?!"
Across the Burning Land, the End insect-men and worms who sensed this tremendous change in the world froze for