The tremors gradually subsided, though no one knew how much time had passed.
The underground ruins finally settled down after the disaster.
There were no longer any signs of collapse.
The scene of destruction had vanished.
The entire underground ruins had become a wasteland, reduced to nothing but shattered rock plates, rock walls, rubble, and piles of stone. It looked as though it had been struck by a massive earthquake, thoroughly transformed into a disaster zone.
Especially the area that had originally been a cave-like formation, which Su Ming had used as a temporary shelter. Now, nothing remained there. All that was left was a wilderness that looked as though it had been scorched by a heat wave, with burn marks everywhere.
No one could approach this area.
The temperature here was absurdly high. Hot smoke rose everywhere, making one suspect that even a piece of iron tossed inside would melt instantly. Combined with the charred smell that constantly permeated the air, it would not have been strange for anyone to believe this was the inside of a volcano.
As it happened, there was a massive crater right at the center of the area.
The ground sank downward here. The surface was not only scorched and smoking, but had also been burned bright red like a heated iron. Magma seemed to roll everywhere, and the heat was nearly ten times greater than in any other place.
At the very center of this "volcanic crater," Lord Crow stood with smoke billowing from his entire body. His robes had been reduced to a tattered mess that barely covered him, and he still maintained the posture of shielding himself with both hands against something.
"Crack. Crack-crack."
It was the sound of something breaking.
The cracking came from the gauntlets equipped on Lord Crow's