After nearly ten minutes of lightning raging through the entire cave, all that energy had finally been vented, and things gradually calmed down.
The air was filled with smoke and dust, making it nearly impossible to see anything. Combined with the Blood Water from the Blood Pool that had just evaporated, the entire cave environment could be said to be severely polluted.
The cave had become a field of ruins. Even the crystal windows more than a hundred meters up on the cave walls had been covered in cracks by the lightning, looking as though they might collapse at any moment.
The crystal structures let out bursts of "zzzt, zzzt," the prelude to shattering. Water had even begun leaking into the cave in some places, forming tiny droplets.
The countless vines that had previously covered the cave walls—the root systems of the Blood Domain Demonic Vine Flower—had all been reduced to powder and drifted through the air. The cave walls had revealed their ruinous appearance after the lightning's rampage. There was hardly any intact area left, and where rocks had fallen away, pits had formed one after another.
There was no longer a single flat patch on the cave floor; it had all become ruins. During the lightning's rampage, countless rocks of all sizes had fallen from the cave walls and ceiling, piling across the entire floor.
With a bang, a boulder the size of a millstone fell from the cave ceiling once more, kicking up a great deal of dust. But the air was already so thick with dust that the newly stirred cloud was practically invisible.
Even the Naga had half his body buried beneath the rocks.
In midair, the sword-shaped accessory gradually reverted as its energy was released, eventually returning to its original size.
"Clang, clang!" Once