Rumble—!
On a clear, silent morning, an enormous and abrupt roar erupted across the ever-peaceful central plains of Hatak. Vast swathes of shattered space even split the sky above the boundless wilderness into fragments. Clouds vanished in an instant, torn apart by powerful shockwaves; violent energy fluctuations carved dense cracks across the ruptured earth; and a scorching tide that crushed all plant and animal life for several kilometers seared the soil into glass... The disaster had arrived with astonishing speed and suddenness. By the time the thunderous sound spread throughout the Hatak Imperial Nation, the snow and ice accumulated on the central plains during Winter Season had already been vaporized and explosively dispersed by the heat.
There was no need to question the source of such a world-shaking sound. Within the Hatak Imperial Nation, only one place could have caused such an "accident"—Punk's magic tower.
In fact, if anyone could have looked through the cracks in the magic tower's emergency barrier at that moment and seen the scene within several kilometers of the tower, they would have discovered that the magic tower had undergone a horrifying change. A huge breach had appeared in the supposedly incomparably sturdy Alchemy Wall. Storms of Chaos Law whirled and ground around the torn opening, while shredded metal fragments and half-energy substances of various colors poured down from tens of thousands of meters in the air. From afar, the drifting, crystalline colors looked as beautiful and vibrant as stars floating through the sky against the pale violet glow of the barrier.
However, as the master of the magic tower, the creator of this major accident, and one of the falling objects, Punk certainly had no mood to admire such a beautiful sight. Wearing a gloomy expression, he simply allowed himself and a heap of fragments—materials