The entire Beinz Diocese had been left utterly devastated. No one who came here could probably tell what it had originally looked like: the earth had split open everywhere, and the wilderness was riddled with bottomless cracks and holes. The enormous tentacle carcasses covered the roads and rocky beaches, while eighty percent of the strongholds along the defensive line had been reduced to heaps of rubble. Watchtowers and lookout posts had either collapsed or been twisted into bizarre structures by the entangling, eroding roots of giant plants, inspiring terror in anyone who saw them. Outside the strongholds that had held out to the very end, the ground was covered with the twisted, horrifying remains of Terror Beasts. Filthy blood and poisonous fumes had turned these places into forbidden zones for life.
Across from this shattered defensive line, the entire forest was slowly rising!
The Twisted Woods continuously rang with thunderous booms that sounded like both thunder and furious roars. It was as if ten thousand abyssal beasts were charging out through the nightmare gates opened in the earth. The sounds of cracking rock strata and the collapse of the underground world even shattered the clouds overhead. The sky above the entire Beinz Diocese began filling with fragmented, scale-like clouds. The earth trembled violently, while the remaining buildings in the town creaked beneath the last traces of divine spell light, sounding as though they were about to collapse. From the heights of the town, one could see that the central part of the forest was rapidly rising, as if a mountain range were impossibly and terrifyingly emerging from flat ground.
The Great Vortex in the center of Beinz Blood Lake paused for an instant. Then, amid an unprecedented boom, the entire surface of the blood lake suddenly sank. The scarlet water