"The whole team was wiped out in five minutes?" Yifuda looked at Muda in disbelief.
Under Yifuda's gaze, Muda lowered her head and nodded, looking ashamed.
"Who killed you? Was it the Angel on Earth?"
Muda shook her head. "No. We were killed by something called ground fungus spore threads."
Unlike the area where Jingta's team had been, Muda's team had entered a building. Every room contained some kind of visible "information."
Food, water, books, supplies...
To understand the stage, Muda's team began searching the building for clues.
They turned up all sorts of supplies and even found a few undamaged weapons.
But just as they were happily scavenging, everyone suddenly felt a force dragging them downward. The floor seemed to turn to water, pulling them underground. They fell through layer after layer until a burst of searing pain hit them and everything went black.
They had been kicked out of the stage.
While they were still bewildered, the Text Panel flickered, then displayed details of the attack.
You were struck by the ground fungus spore threads' "Earthfall." Your body has been judged unable to withstand this ability. You have died. Death protection has been activated. The "Angel on Earth" stage has entered cooldown. Cooldown: 23:59:59 Cooldown: 23:59:58 Cooldown...
"It wasn't just me. Every one of us was killed by the ground fungus spore threads' Earthfall skill. No one could withstand it." Fear still lingered in Muda's eyes.
Perhaps Nereid's attack had been so overwhelming that Jingta's death protection activated sooner, sparing his team much of the pain of dying.
Muda's team, however, had felt death clearly. Even now that she was out of the stage, she could not forget that agonizing instant between life and death.
But everyone was watching her. She forced down her discomfort and