After killing the gigantic stone statue, Richard showed little reaction. He merely waved toward the Storm Airship commanding it, then pointed between the two mountains.
Pandora immediately said from inside the cabin, "Have the Wall-Breaking Squad begin operations."
Bi Bi nodded.
Soon, the Brown Wall-Breaking Airship received the signal, left the formation, and approached the spot Richard had indicated.
After successfully drawing close, it opened its cabin and extended mechanical arms. As before, they fired energy beams, attempting to breach the Demiplane's barrier.
This was clearly far more difficult than before. It took a full five minutes. Only when the magical runes on the mechanical arms began showing signs of melting did they finally open a black circular hole near the ground, barely a meter in diameter.
But for Richard, that was enough.
With a light step forward, Richard's body twisted, and he quickly vanished. He had already entered the plane.
Inside the plane.
This was a world of extreme darkness, several degrees darker than the outside world of the Dark Era.
Black buildings stood one after another, all roughly identical in scale—dozens of meters wide, hundreds of meters tall, and thousands of meters long. They looked like heavy walls, or like enormous tombstones laid flat.
At this moment, countless strange creatures that had fled in from outside were resting near the "tombstones." Some scratched at the surfaces with their claws, as though trying to open an entrance and crawl inside. But after struggling for a long while without seeing any change, they had no choice but to give up.
It was worth mentioning that all the resting strange creatures had deliberately kept away from the deepest part of the plane. Several enormous Black Shadows stood there, as towering as mountains, constantly radiating a dangerous aura that made even