The sudden shift in atmosphere needed no explanation. It was clearly because of Black Earl and Wai.
But Black Earl and Wai were not the only ones making the atmosphere heavier.
Dox and Kael had a part in it too. Even if they were not afraid of the stench, they had no desire to wade through a stinking sewer.
If there was a normal road to take, who would want to frolic in a stinking sewer?
What was more, the situation inside the stinking sewer was extremely unclear. It was filled with the dark aura that the One-Eyed Wraiths had previously lain there absorbing. Over ten thousand years, that dark aura had nourished countless Demonic Beasts.
And the Demonic Beast ecosystem in the stinking sewer followed the law of survival of the strong.
The weaker Demonic Beasts, such as the mutated carrion squirrels, could only flee upward out of the stinking sewer if they wanted to avoid extinction.
They might have dealt with the Mutated Carrion Squirrels with ease, but that had actually only been thanks to the illusion. If they had faced them head-on, that mountain-and-sea swarm of Mutated Carrion Squirrels would certainly have caused them no small amount of trouble.
Yet in the stinking sewer, the Mutated Carrion Squirrels were lowly Demonic Beasts driven out by others.
In other words, entering the stinking sewer meant not only overcoming the stench, but possibly confronting many powerful Demonic Beasts.
How strong were Demonic Beasts that had been nourished for years by "dark, filthy aura"? No one knew.
That was why Dox and Kael had fallen silent as well.
"This road really leads straight to the stinking sewer?" As the atmosphere grew increasingly stiff, Dox was the first to break the silence. "I'd been wondering before: when Abyss City began constructing