Thunder rumbled, shaking the boundary between the sky and the earth.
Torrential rain covered most of the Eastern Plate. The fine, rapid raindrops interwove into a vast, boundless curtain, completely blurring the line between darkness and light.
Boom.
Just as wind and rain raged and lightning flashed across the sky—
In the Hundred Severed Mountain Range, a thick bolt of lightning, like the Wrath of the Gods, suddenly tore through the sky and struck the mountain-sized City Beast.
The City Beast's body was enormous and ponderous, its hide covered in thick black moss that made it appear ancient and weathered.
Yet under the lightning's strike, the black moss instantly faded considerably, as though some mysterious force had stripped it of its vitality.
The City Beast's enormous body trembled slightly. Its formerly slow, crawling steps gradually came to a halt.
It seemed to have sensed some unknown threat, or perhaps it had fallen into a brief daze after being struck by the lightning.
At that moment, a pair of eerie green eyes suddenly opened on the City Beast's body, more than a thousand meters above the ground.
Those eyes were like two cold stars in an abyss, radiating a strange and profound aura that made the already tense atmosphere even heavier.
"Light."
A meaningless roar rang out in the sky. It was deep and resonant, and for a moment, even the rumbling thunder was suppressed by the sound, as though the entire world were trembling.
Light was the nemesis of the Shadow Beast Race.
Before reaching adulthood, a juvenile member of the Shadow Beast Race would die outright if exposed to light for more than half an hour.
Even after reaching adulthood, they still could not remain exposed to light for long.
Only members of the Shadow Beast Race who had