Countless enormous fissures suddenly appeared, like the gaping jaws of a Leviathan beast.
After lasting for a few moments, they snapped shut again at an astonishing speed, forever swallowing the clods of earth and shattered rocks that had fallen into them—or unlucky living creatures.
At some point, a pall of gloom had spread across the vast sky, its original reddish-brown hue turning dark brown, so oppressive that it was hard to breathe!
Aside from a very few who were too sluggish to react or lacked the ability to fly, most of the monsters took to the air the instant the changes struck, leaving the ground in an attempt to avoid the effects.
But they soon discovered that the ground was not the only thing violently shaking.
The entire Demon Domain was trembling madly, like a dead leaf caught in a raging gale!
"What the hell is going on?!"
"With such a huge commotion, could Lust's Holy Lord be descending into reality?"
"Descending my ass! Didn't you notice that the Holy Lord's gaze has disappeared?!"
"Fuck, look at the sky! What the hell is that?"
"The sky? What could possibly be in the sky... holy fuck!?"
After that shrill, cracking scream, all the monsters turned their eyes toward the sky.
More precisely, toward the distant horizon where sky and earth met.
The horizon was rising!
Rapidly rising!
At that moment, the heavy earth seemed to have become a thin sheet of paper!
Along with the plants, animals, and everything upon it, it twisted and folded wildly beneath an invisible force!
Stones and grains of soil churned amid the upheaval, like a boiling sea of black-brown water!
The thunderous rumbling numbed their eardrums and made their bodies tremble.
Even using barriers to block out the noise, or relying on abilities and items