After the first gaze, more gazes from the darkness locked onto Anvis.
Yet among those gazes, the owner of one gave Anvis an oddly familiar feeling.
Bolstered by the miraculous power of the Continental Web of Fate, Anvis felt a bone-chilling sensation as that gaze, like a quietly burning flame, lingered upon him for a long time.
Tongues of ghostly green fire, identical to those he had once seen in the Glory Secret Realm of another world, rose from within his mind and licked at him illusorily.
The cruel reality lay before him: the Star Gazer's decisive action had indeed delayed their steps, but it was far from a permanent solution.
Having long since been alerted, even without the Star Gazer as a Beacon, they could still gradually find the path to the Prime Material Plane over the course of endless time.
And although the Star Gazer, who had chosen to forget this memory, had delayed them by several thousand years, he could no longer make any further preparations.
In truth, Anvis could understand the Star Gazer's choice at the time.
Humanity, which had yet to produce a Legendary Rank existence, was absolutely incapable of resisting the ancient terrifying beings' return.
The only option was to delay for as long as possible—until humanity deciphered the barrier of the Ninth Rank Limit and gave birth to true legendary powerhouses.
But after learning all this, Anvis realized that the situation he now faced was somewhat different.
The Star Gazer's actions had indeed slowed their return, but this was by no means a permanent solution.
Moreover, in his original timeline, the Star Gazer's arrangements had already been thoroughly disrupted by him. Coupled with the inexplicably appearing Overlapping Zones and those Heretic God Cults that had suddenly become active, all of this gave him