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"Earthquake!"
With the Golden Kingdom ruins at its center, violent tremors radiated outward, affecting the entire Death Desert in an instant.
Even Karaha Territory at the edge of the Death Desert felt the powerful shaking.
Him and the others, who had luckily escaped, instinctively turned back toward Golden City. They suddenly saw countless streams of yellow sand shooting into the sky like an erupting volcano, soaring straight into the clouds.
Dawn had only just broken, and the horizon had been perfectly clear. But the surging sand abruptly blotted out the sky, plunging the entire desert into gloom.
As Him and the others stared at the curtain of sand that seemed poised to divide the entire world, feeling the tremors beneath their feet grow ever more intense, their faces were filled with the relief of having narrowly escaped death.
"What on earth happened in Golden City?"
Rumble—!
As the increasingly terrifying tremors shook the land, the rock walls above Golden City cracked apart layer by layer. Massive boulders came crashing down, as if the end of the world had suddenly arrived.
But the golden light emanating from Golden City instantly connected into a single expanse, shrouding the entire city. It flung away the falling boulders, sending them smashing back into the rock walls and turning them to dust.
The Moon God's Chariot, flying high in the air, was not repelled by the barrier of light. After a brief moment of caution, Dark relaxed.
At least for now, they were regarded as part of Golden City and would not be affected by the "collapse of heaven and earth" caused by the earthquake.
By then, the top of the pyramid had already been swallowed by intense golden light. Yet the voice of the Heroic Spirit's chanting remained clear.
Even as the heavens