"Boom! Boom!!"
The deafening explosions continued to echo between heaven and earth. The frenzied shrieks of the dark army swept across the wilderness as it surged forward. An indescribably fierce battle was unfolding, and the scene on the battlefield was bizarre and horrifying.
There were simply too many monsters pouring out of the darkness—even describing their numbers was becoming impossible.
Hathaway had no idea how badly the seal at the bottom of the cage had been damaged, but she suspected that the entire system had already collapsed. By now, the silver-white runes surrounding the enormous pit had almost all been swallowed by the black tide. The last scraps of silver-white light flickered precariously under the dark army's assault. In contrast to the constantly retreating holy power, the monsters surging out from the other side of the "boundary" were increasing and growing stronger at a maddening rate.
Black waves gushed from the rift, covering almost the entire wilderness. Humanoid monsters were born endlessly within the tide, shrieking madly as they pounced on anything that attracted their attention. From high above, the black tide looked like an oil slick spreading through water. It expanded in all directions at a despairingly unstoppable speed, tainting the earth, filling ravines, devouring hills, and swallowing everything in its path—just as Hathaway had described:
The other side of the boundary was the dark side of the universe. What emerged from there was endless evil!
Hao Ren's group quickly retreated to a point nearly two kilometers from the cage. They had not expected the number of enemies emerging from the rift to reach such a terrifying level, nor had they expected their rate of growth and strengthening to be so outrageous. One moment, they were still fighting the monsters fiercely; the next, the creatures had spread across the