Mortis in Collapse
On Mortis, there was no concept of time at all. There had once indeed been day and night here, but their alternation had been caused by the constant struggle between the Son and the Daughter.
Yet after the Son died, Mortis did not become clear and sunny. On the contrary, the weather remained perpetually overcast, creating an incomparably oppressive atmosphere.
But at this moment, in the Land of the Everlasting Sleep, the weather had become utterly terrifying!
An immensely powerful Dark Side Force erupted from the Son's corpse, like a terrifying black dragon piercing into the heavens. Even Mortis's sky was torn apart. Wherever the Force passed, the sky shattered into fragments and twisted into bizarre colors. Lightning, rain, hail, hurricanes—nearly every kind of weather imaginable appeared overhead.
The light around them also came in every possible color, making the place seem like a ghostly realm.
This horrifying power had completely erupted from the Son's corpse, carrying the might to destroy heaven and earth!
And no one knew how long the Land of the Everlasting Sleep had remained in this apocalyptic state. Ever since Tang Xiao began that ritual filled with darkness and death, it had never stopped.
During this time, the Daughter had quietly knelt in meditation within the Land of the Everlasting Sleep, the Dagger of Mortis placed before her.
Perhaps, to her, this terrifying eruption of Dark Side Force that others might have considered world-ending was no more extraordinary than an everyday occurrence.
After an unknown length of time, the Daughter suddenly furrowed her brow and sprang to her feet. She turned to look behind her, then twisted lightly and transformed into that beautiful griffin, flying in another direction.
Before long, she arrived at the center of Mortis, at the monastery built atop a