"Rumble..."
The shattered earth shook violently like an earthquake, kicking up billowing clouds of dust.
This sudden upheaval shattered the peace outside the Sendai Barrier.
Although the emergence of the Culling Game had led to countless killings, those battles had so far been limited to the ten barriers and had not spread to the world outside.
Therefore, aside from Tokyo, which had become an Unnatural Realm, the other major cities had experienced quite a bit of unrest and even panic, but at least they had not been dragged into it and turned into stages for sorcerers' battles.
However, after the rule allowing players to freely enter and leave the Culling Game barriers appeared, this state of affairs could no longer be maintained.
Now, as dazzling lightning roared out of the Sendai Barrier, crimson light exploded outside it, slamming the demon god from a thousand years ago into the ground and breaking the tranquility of the district beyond the barrier.
People immediately screamed in terror and fled in all directions like startled birds.
In the sky, the young man holding a demonic sword withdrew his hand, which still glimmered with red light, and descended to the ground.
Before him lay the violently shattered earth, still collapsing within as billowing dust swept toward him, tossing his bangs and coat.
Behind him stood the barrier rising like a black curtain, but it had already become little more than decoration.
"Lord Sukuna!"
Uraume, flying out of the barrier on an icy wind, saw this and cried out anxiously.
Meanwhile, Kengso, whom Uraume held in his hand, froze completely when he saw the young man wielding the demonic sword.
If anyone had looked closely, they would have noticed a clump of blood slipping from the young man's free hand and dripping onto the ground.
It