The instant that mental ripple appeared.
The world fell silent.
Every sound vanished in a strange fashion.
Not just the sounds.
Falling leaves hung frozen in midair, and wing-beating insects seemed to have become specimens trapped in amber.
Even the few lingering rays of sunset at the horizon displayed bizarre fractures within this region.
It was as though someone had pressed pause on heaven and earth; even the wind had solidified in midair.
The next second!
Above the vault of heaven.
The dark canopy of sky suddenly warped, and the clouds were abruptly torn open by a rift.
Two immense beams of light shone down from above the cleaved clouds. The light was Crimson, carrying an ominous air.
Everything on the ground was dyed blood-red, as though drenched in fresh blood.
Then, a colossal pale serpent's head slowly emerged from behind the clouds.
The scales upon it were chilling as ice, every single one glimmering with the cold light of deathly stillness.
Its head was as large as an ancient castle, jagged and angular, covered in layer upon layer of bone spines.
A pair of Crimson serpent pupils gazed down indifferently.
Those two red beams were clearly the light radiating from its eyes.
Whoosh!
The giant serpent parted its jaws by a sliver.
It exhaled a faint breath.
Then, that breath struck directly against the ground.
Boom!
With a deafening blast.
Centered on the church, the ground within a radius of a thousand meters instantly caved in.
The soil split apart, rocks shattered, and the land across the entire area collapsed downward more than ten meters with a thunderous roar.
All vegetation and living creatures within ten thousand meters withered and died.
As though drenched in aqua regia, they turned to ash.
The long-abandoned church was even more fragile than