...It was a scene straight out of an Apocalypse.
The stone platform shook violently, and the Black Stone Tablet teetered on the verge of collapse. The previously calm Black Sea churned with towering waves, emitting strange, piercing shrieks like boiling water.
The once silent and desolate world underwent an earth-shattering change without warning.
As dense cracks began to creep across the Black Stone Tablet, the Four Symbols Stone Carvings at the four corners of the platform each cast out a burst of Golden Light, forcibly locking the precarious tablet in the very center.
Just then, a barbed tentacle emerged from beneath the tablet and shot like lightning toward Shi Yu Zhi Hua, who stood closest to the Black Stone Tablet.
"..."
Glancing at the four people who had somehow retreated together to hide at the edge of the platform, Shi Yu Zhi Hua's mouth twitched slightly as he reached out a hand toward the tentacle extending toward him.
Although the tentacle had shot forward at incredible speed, the closer it came to him, the slower it became. By the time it was only a fist's distance away, it had been forcibly frozen in midair.
But before he could even breathe a slight sigh of relief, a gigantic mouth made entirely of teeth appeared on the tentacle in the next instant and swallowed him whole.
"Wow, it swallowed him whole."
Almost instinctively, Huo Xiao Yan wore an envious expression.
Bai Zhi: "???"
Turning to look at the other two and seeing their utterly unsurprised expressions, Bai Zhi suddenly realized that he still had much to learn.
"...What is that thing?"
After a brief silence, Bai Zhi shifted his gaze away from Huo Xiao Yan, who was staring intently in that direction, and turned to the Pink Haired Girl.
Although the collapse