Looking Down (Thanks to Ning Ricardo for the alliance leader support)
And so, slowly and cautiously, taking three steps forward and two steps back, Ji Jue edged to the boundary of the Defense Domain. He tentatively poked one foot inside, then both feet, and finally... he drove himself and the car all the way in.
There was no reaction.
The towering darkness, like sheer cliffs, wriggled as it slowly split open down the middle, clearing a path for him. It even felt as though, if it were a little smarter, it might hang up a banner welcoming the homeowner back...
He got in without a hitch!
Not only Ji Jue—even the two figures who had quietly crept up behind him froze in place.
They looked at one another.
What the hell?
"Could it be that too many people barged in ahead of us, and it's out of power now?" the other person whispered.
The instant they came to that conclusion, they strode proudly toward the central hub. Then... screaming, they fled in disarray beneath the combined assault of Heavenly Thunder Earthly Fire.
Then the darkness wriggled, opened wide with an awooo, and gobbled them all up.
There was no more sound.
In the deepest part of the darkness, the massive gate lay full of holes, fallen backward.
Broken wreckage lay scattered across the equally devastated hall, as though a hurricane had torn through it. Countless traces of explosions remained, along with faintly discernible bloodstains and charred corpses.
"Isn't that a little too reckless?"
Ji Jue caught the strange burnt scent in the air and fought the urge to suck in a cold breath. Someone had seriously used their face to scout the bushes?
This was the Workshop's central hub—an ancient sage's Workshop, no less...
Sensing the faint, damaged Spirit Essence