A village lay relatively close to the shadows.
The villagers here seemed to have given up resisting. Not one of them fled; they simply stayed in the village, waiting for the shadows to descend.
There were even quite a few groups that had formed faith in the shadows.
They wrapped their heads in black cloth and danced wildly around spears bristling with livestock skulls. They had also banned every form of lighting throughout the village.
"Interesting. Let's join them too!"
William was the first to put a black cloth hood over his head. He joined them with even more exaggerated, almost epileptic dancing, and the villagers welcomed him at first.
But faced with William's epileptic dancing, they gradually began to feel uncomfortable, even fearful, and kept their distance from him.
To ensure the effect of the field, Yi Chen and the others followed suit.
As long as they remained within the range of the Actor Field, they did not need to do anything. To outsiders, they appeared to be dancing as well.
Yi Chen turned his gaze toward the hill in the distance. The pitch-black shadows were spreading toward them, devouring everything in their path. They moved quickly, and the entire mountain was completely swallowed in less than a few seconds.
"It's coming."
When the shadows reached the edge of the village, a horrifying atmosphere seemed to arrive at the edge of their sanity.
The villagers, who had clearly prepared themselves to welcome it, all revealed terrified expressions at that moment. The most primitive fear rose from the depths of their hearts.
In the areas the shadows passed through, inorganic matter remained unaffected.
But any living thing connected to organic matter vanished instantly into the shadows, without any process at all. It was practically like a magic trick.
A man