The torrential rain had completely washed away the reflection in the sky.
Everyone clearly saw the desert reflection in the sky slowly dissipate beneath the downpour, turning into an illusory mirage.
"Is it really gone?"
"It just... disappeared like that?"
"What about the Moment of Plunder? Why did it suddenly vanish?"
A wizard experiencing planar fusion for the first time foolishly asked, "Did the fusion succeed?"
Someone answered him, "...It did not succeed."
If it had not succeeded, then only one answer remained: the fusion had failed!
The planar fusion had failed once again!
The downpour in the sky seemed like the wailing of the world's will. During the previous two stages, the world's will had invested so, so much to merge this new world, only to make a wedding dress for someone else at the final moment.
Thus, this storm seemed more like the world's will weeping.
No one else cared why it was raining. All they cared about was the reflection in the sky—
"Could Observer Shura's prophecy have been false? Where was this great opportunity we were promised?" someone demanded. "Was it all a lie?!"
Similar accusations rose one after another. Some even rushed directly before the wizards of Crownstar Cathedral to shout at them.
The prophecy wizards of Crownstar Cathedral exchanged glances, then said with bitter smiles, "The Observer's prophecies have never been wrong."
"Then who can explain what is happening before us?"
Faced with the agitated crowd of wizards, some prophecy wizards simply sat cross-legged, preparing to connect with the faith within their hearts and ask after the cause of it all.
Yet after a long while, the only answer they received was: the world's will was wailing.
It had been fleeced for no reason and lost far too much power. Even the world's will