When "Abyssal Kukanid" was successfully defeated, Reversed City Laleias, where Seiya and the others were, began collapsing rapidly as though space itself had caved in.
A presence like a torrent of corrupted data began frantically eroding the surrounding buildings and everything else.
It was not until several enormous jet-black tentacles extended from another dimension once more that the data torrent devouring the city seemed to be restrained and suppressed again.
When those two forces collided, a massive surge of seawater, like the ocean vortex from before, directly forced Seiya and the others unconscious.
By the time they regained consciousness, they found themselves floating atop the wreckage of a ship in the open sea.
[You have left the special area Reversed City Laleias. Congratulations, players, on completing the unique scenario "Apostle Who Pierces the Abyss." ───The [Origin] of the dead stirs. Humanity, achieve the resistance your predecessors failed to accomplish.]
Seeing the message window before them, Seiya and the others were clearly stunned for a moment.
When Laleias had begun collapsing and the jet-black giant god's tentacles stretched out, Sun Yue and the others had thought that perhaps "Abyssal Kukanid" had a second phase, or even a second body.
But the server-wide announcement had already been issued, and they had already received their rewards. That meant they truly had defeated it.
Only after seeing the notice that they had left the special area did Sun Yue and the others let out a huge sigh of relief. So that scene afterward had been a cutscene following the completion of the scenario.
"The force that just eroded Reversed City Laleias clearly did not come from Kukanid, but from another unknown force.
"According to the records in the Queen's Log, the force eroding the city should have been the so-called Mad Swarm.