The greatest distance across Eurasia was only a little over ten thousand kilometers, yet the vortex surrounding the Great Vortex World Island already exceeded that.
The World Island itself was a world, and the immense power of that world kept it firmly rooted at the center.
Or rather, the disturbance that created the Great Vortex came from the environment within the World Island.
Usually, the conditions there were already harsh even by the standards of the Endless Sea. Now, however, the entire place had been set ablaze!
Blazing flames completely engulfed the sky and sea, as if even space itself were burning!
Although they were already in the Endless Sea, where the World Will allowed more freedom, this terrifying divine might still came close to crossing the limit!
Everyone on the Great Vortex World Island changed expression.
The representatives from every faction who had come to negotiate were equally grim.
World Islands were usually independent worlds that had risen above the sea. Within them, the weather was generally clear and the scenery ordinary.
The sky above the Great Vortex World Island had once been a clear blue.
But now, even the sky within the World Island seemed to have caught fire!
Even through the barrier between worlds, that unfathomable divine might made every living being on the Great Vortex World Island tremble.
"A God!"
"Which one is this? What does He want?"
"Did the Oldest One sense something?"
"How dare He..."
"Is the Oldest One skilled in the path of Flame? This doesn't seem like Him."
"..."
They had been plotting here, secretly forming an offensive and defensive alliance in an attempt to divide up the Empire's spoils.
The true Gods of the great factions hadn't come in person, but each side had sent an Oracle of the Divine Path