"Decisive Battle at the Andmar Hills" Raid Group Forming! No Requirements-Anyone Who Can Breathe, Come!

The CG of Cadman City being destroyed by the astral rift was still pinned in the forum's featured posts. Almost every little player had watched that thing more than once before entering the game.

But that CG had been filmed from a distance by Cheche. It looked spectacular, but it lacked the shock of seeing it up close.

Especially the wonder of that moment when the starlight streaming beneath the night sky was ignited by wild psionic energy, turning a ghostly violet. It was like watching an ever-expanding balloon get squeezed again and again until it finally burst, scattering a million tainted energies across the material world.

The sky split open.

It was as if a second Astral Scar had opened in the material world of Transia.

The devastation that followed looked much like the explosions caused by a massive barrage of aerial bombs slamming into the ground. The equally wild shock wave was accompanied by quaking earth and an uncanny shriek that tore at the eardrums.

The light that rose afterward was an ominous purple-black. Of course, the scene wouldn't have been complete without several dimensional meteorites plunging from the sky, trailing purple wildfire as they smashed into the earth with savage fury. It was the deadly accompaniment to an otherworldly disaster unfolding right before their eyes.

The energy released by the astral rift at the gnoll encampment had been less than a tenth of what had swallowed Cadman City. As a result, the rift torn open between the material world and the Astral Plane lasted less than fifteen seconds before slowly closing under pressure from both sides.

In that respect, Triss had certainly earned her title as a psionic master. Before she'd even begun casting, she had accurately estimated the scale and yield of the explosion.

But the