"Mentor, you're conscious again?" Thor didn't pay any attention to Gorsa's talk of saving him or not. He was simply delighted that Gorsa was still conscious.
It was like seeing a colander that had somehow managed to hold quite a bit of water.
"...The Abyss is... a corpse."
Gorsa clearly didn't have the strength to explain how he'd managed to retain some awareness despite his spiritual body's Alienation.
He went straight to telling Thor about his most important discovery in the Abyss.
The message he sent was extremely faint. Only Thor, crouching beside him, could make it out.
"A corpse?" Thor thought of the gray-white skeletons inside the Abyss. Those were corpses, certainly. But they didn't quite match what his mentor had said.
Thor's eyes suddenly widened. He remembered the Starry Sky he'd seen after emerging from the Chaos Domain into the Abyss. Combining that with all the plot points he'd come across in novels, he suddenly had a theory.
Could the Eye of the Abyss be... a dead world?
But then again, if it were a dead world, Mentor Gorsa probably wouldn't have described it as a corpse.
So it had to be some kind of powerful being that could, at least to some extent, be compared to a world.
Sixth Rank beings destroyed worlds; Seventh Rank beings created them.
Either rank could fit the bill.
But after thinking it over, Thor felt the Abyss was more likely to be Sixth Rank.
A Seventh Rank being would be even more terrifying than the Death Herald Demon of the Phantom Color World. And Thor believed that if the Death Herald Demon truly wanted to destroy the Wizard World, it wouldn't use such a gentle, drawn-out method.
Yes, the Black Tide crisis, which had lasted for over a century, was probably