Rumble—!!!
A deafening boom, powerful enough to shatter heaven and earth, rang out. The ground began to shake.
It was as if a magnitude-ten earthquake had struck.
The nearby carriages and the people standing on the ground all rocked violently.
Goods kept tumbling off some of the carriages.
The tents that had just been set up—and were already flimsy—collapsed as well.
They buried the people who hadn't had time to get out.
Then—
Dust and rubble shot high into the air, forming a mushroom cloud that blotted out the sky.
A massive shock wave spread wildly in every direction from the meteorite's impact site, like a tsunami.
Whoosh—
A fierce wind swept through.
Flowers, trees, and rocks alike were blown away by the powerful blast.
Then—
An all-consuming wave of heat struck.
It was like a volcano erupting without warning. Trees burst into flames wherever it passed, crops were reduced to ash, and even rocks grew scorching hot.
The air was thick with the pungent smell of sulfur and dust, making it hard to breathe.
The people in the camp stared in terror at the swamp being swallowed by a sea of flames.
No...
That place could no longer be called a swamp.
The Sorrowful Swamp had been left utterly devastated.
All because a meteorite had fallen.
The swamp had disappeared.
In its place lay an enormous crater, still billowing smoke.
Waves of heat rose from the bottom, as if telling of the catastrophe that had just taken place.
But strangely, apart from the shaking, the area where they stood hadn't suffered any damage.
Even after a few minutes, when the shock wave gradually faded and the mushroom cloud rose and drifted away,
not even the dust and rubble falling from the sky landed in this area, which had been