Maria was crying. In the distance, Haili was crying beside the Crystal Pillar in the Second Wizard Tower.
Just moments ago, he had sensed Lord Murphy's presence in the Crystal Pillar. Having lived at the Wall of Sighs since birth, Haili understood all too well what that meant.
With a wail, he crouched down, wrapped his arms around the Crystal Pillar, and buried his face as he sobbed.
The last Tier 4 Wizard in the Far North Lands had chosen to stand guard over the Storm Sea. Even as a corpse, he would keep fighting to protect the Wall of Sighs.
Most of the others had no idea what had happened. They were still battling the Black Tide Monsters left behind. Though their spirits were low, the monsters remained physically formidable. Unless you were an abnormal Tier 3 Wizard like Thor, killing a hundred-meter-tall Black Tide Monster still took a long time.
The battle was still raging, but everyone's mood was completely different from two hours earlier.
They had seen the light at the end of the tunnel. As long as they wiped out the monsters in front of them, they would survive this Black Tide without suffering too many casualties.
Yet just as they were celebrating, someone suddenly shouted, "The Wall of Sighs! The Wall of Sighs... It's cracking!"
The people nearby heard the cry and instinctively refused to believe it. Still, they turned around to check.
And there it was: the Wall of Sighs really was... cracking.
The dark gray Wall of Sighs stood over a hundred meters tall and had guarded the Far North Lands for just as long. Now, cracks had appeared across its surface.
They looked as if the wall had been hacked apart with blades and axes, subjected to unimaginable damage.
Those marks hadn't