In the Kolo World, if there was still one last beacon burning forever in the darkness, one last universally acknowledged holy land in the eyes of the mortal kingdoms, and one last pure land amid the endless Chaos, then without a doubt, it was the Sanctuary.
Ever since the ancient giant Lockmadon shattered the earth and turned all of Kolo into five continents floating in the Sea of Karnos, the evil Chaos and Dark Power had ceaselessly gnawed away at the kingdoms of Order. Those continents drifting in the outer reaches rose and fell amid primordial mana, while Chaos and mana relentlessly battered everything upon those lands day after day.
The Kana'an Secret Realm had been completely devoured by Chaos thousands of years ago. When the last beacon of Order on that continent went out, the power of the Order Kingdom could never again reclaim its lands. One land of Order had fallen forever.
The other continents were likewise weathering storm after storm amid Chaos, constantly facing the fate of being devoured.
Yet the Sanctuary alone, this land floating at the very center of the void, had remained shrouded in light for tens of thousands of years, untouched by the slightest shadow.
Until recently, when the Light of Asuman suddenly dimmed.
Viewed from the endless darkness of the void, the Sanctuary looked like a perfectly regular inverted cone. It had an almost flawless outline: a perfectly circular edge, an inverted-cone continental base symmetrical along its central axis, and gentle terrain that gradually rose toward the center of the continent. It was so impossibly perfect that it seemed man-made. No wonder some scholars speculated that the Sanctuary had originally been a long nail personally forged by the Creation Goddess and driven into Lockmadon's forehead. On the inverted-cone base of the Sanctuary,