This time, it took him more than half a month to reach the rift in the Death Abyss.
It was nothing like the difficult infiltration of the past.
Now Reilo was like a shooting star, charging headlong through the freezing winds beneath a solid energy shield. He ignored the various frost monsters unique to this place and reached the very bottom of the abyss in barely half an hourglass.
The endless black ice that had once covered the bottom of the abyss had melted more than a decade ago, when Reilo's Star Body True Body reflected the sunlight and formed the unprecedentedly immense Eye of the Sun he had summoned. The black substance had not vanished completely beneath the intense heat and radiation, but its quantity had plummeted, causing the Shadow Wall Demons to dwindle as well. Only in recent years had their numbers begun to recover.
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
The weaker frost monsters, knowing they stood no chance against the violent heat waves of the Radiation Law, had long since fled far away. The frost on the ground hissed and spread into a cloud of steam.
Like a terrifying fire demon descending upon a world of ice, Reilo walked forward step by step, gradually approaching the familiar cave.
Twenty years ago, rather than saying Reilo had rescued the Frost Sorcerer with his Star Body True Body, it would be more accurate to say he had used it to intimidate this hidden, terrifying presence and avert a possible conflict between them.
After all,
the reason the Frost Sorcerer had not returned to the surface all these years was that he had wanted to prevent the terrifying Shadow Wall Demons from threatening humanity. He had stayed behind to guard against the danger posed by these unknown creatures!
Yet the surface world