One by one, the people hiding in the shelters tentatively emerged... The major shelters in the area had all lost their cover and been completely exposed. There was no point in staying any longer.
People filed out of their respective shelters, staring at how the once densely populated civilian district—where prosperity had once been visible despite the hardships—had now been reduced to utter ruins.
The endless black spirit pig trotter rice was gone, too.
They cried.
"What... what are we supposed to do now..."
A light drizzle began to fall from the sky.
Adolf had been awakened by the rain. His whole body was icy cold, and his health was at rock bottom, so he hurriedly gulped down an extremely precious minor health potion.
Those instant-recovery potions were not something he could possess. They had supposedly vanished from the Emerald Continent in its early days, appearing only as drop rewards during certain large-scale events or when raiding terrifying bosses.
"As expected, it still hasn't evolved..."
After recovering some health, Adolf immediately checked his divine artifact... His disappointment was greater than his sense of inevitability.
Questions kept pouring through the players' channel—players who had been hiding in shelters in other districts.
Some players who had been squatting in the White Tiger Great Area without a care gradually began speaking up... Adolf had no intention of showing himself this time. What other player could have personally experienced this terrifying disaster like he had?
This is the most heart-pounding cutscene I've experienced since entering the game... It really might have killed me!
Adolf was still trembling with fear. He cursed the Canglan Realm's plot in his heart, marveling at how brutally realistic it was. He had nearly lost his life. *This TM is clearly a cutscene you have to pay with your