Marquis vs. Hunter

Fifth Epoch World!

Kornstan Continent!

As the living beings of this continent welcomed the sunlight of a new day and prepared to begin their daily routines, this world—home to dozens of species, tens of billions of living creatures, and an advanced civilization of magic and battle aura—trembled for no apparent reason!

Then, the vast emerald sky, beautiful as a piece of jade, began to change color. The green faded as blood-red spread across it. A black rift stretching across the entire sky suddenly appeared overhead.

The jade sky blessed by the gods had cracked open!

Space shuddered, and the aura of death poured forth from that "scar in the heavens." In an instant, darkness shrouded the continent.

"What in the world is happening!?" An old gray-robed mage hovered high in the air, his bark-like face filled with terror. "This aura... what exactly is it...?"

He was Falem, a legendary mage, one of those standing at the pinnacle of the continent's magical hierarchy. He was only one step away from glimpsing the "Gate of God."

The old mage did not dare slack off. Raising a deadwood staff high, he loudly chanted a spell. Yet the forbidden defensive spell that could protect the territory of an entire empire was like a tiny flame trying to evaporate the ocean before the black mist leaking from that rift!

"This!?"

"Old Falem!" Golden light flashed, and a woman clad head to toe in golden knight armor suddenly appeared beside the old mage. Her enormous spiral knight's lance was terrifying to behold. "Do you know what has happened!?"

Orestan, a legendary holy knight. It was said across the continent that her lance could pierce through the Nine Nether Hells!

The moment she appeared, she thrust her knight's lance toward the crack in the sky. A spiral