After the astonishment, the bottom of Lake of Eternal Silence returned to silence.
Only after a long while did a faint sigh drift forth.
"Has the new era arrived?"
"Within those fragmented memories, they all call out the same name..."
"...Zong Shen."
The massive arm trembled at the bottom of the lake.
The fine chains binding it to the altar clattered.
At the same time, disturbances arose simultaneously in five regions across the Northern Frontier.
"I have lain dormant for far too long!"
"The new era cycles anew; the dead shall live forever!"
"Darkness! I am the king of eternal night!"
Lake of Eternal Silence, Frostbound Peak, Undying Icefield, Dusk Bay, Final Slaughter Rift.
Eerie, inexplicable roars erupted from all five locations at once.
Each location held an altar identical to the one at the bottom of Lake of Eternal Silence, sealing a different body part.
The sudden roars echoed like a proclamation of death descending, revealing some ancient hatred hidden within this land.
They gradually drifted away on the bleak winter wind.
Vast sheets of ice cracked and groaned.
The Others frozen within opened their ghostly blue eyes.
They violently broke free from the thick ice that had imprisoned them for ten thousand years and returned to this land.
Millions, tens of millions of Others stood upon scattered, shattered ice floes, gazing out at their former homeland.
At the same time, the frozen earth of the Northern Frontier abruptly changed from day to night.
The radiance of the sun plane avoided this place.
A sunless night descended.
The pitch-black curtain of night shrouded the earth, rendering even outstretched fingers invisible.
Only the howling icy wind remained eternal and unchanging.
When the barbarians and savages living in the Northern Frontier saw night descend so suddenly, with a blue-black halo seeping