In just a few minutes, the airship had flown several hundred kilometers and was still climbing steadily. Young Master Deng sat aboard it, pale-faced and trembling as he watched through the airship's optical imaging device. On the ground below, enormous monsters so huge they inspired despair were burrowing out of the earth one after another.
The things emerging from underground resembled gigantic earthworms, yet also enormous centipedes.
Seen from the sky, after these things broke through the ground, they left behind enormous pitch-black holes several kilometers across, like passages leading into the abyss of hell, or the mouths of devils that devoured all things.
Even the airship's massive body looked slender before those things that had crawled out of the earth.
Young Master Deng's teeth were chattering.
The airship flew ever higher, but from that greater height came a better view of the land below. Looking down at the earth, Young Master Deng felt an uncontrollable terror. As far as the eye could see, stretching without end, one of those terrifyingly huge monsters emerged from the ground every few hundred kilometers. There were not merely one or two of them, but too many to count.
From high in the air, the sight was like seeing a mass of earthworms heaving themselves out of the soil, sending chills rising from the depths of one's heart.
The instant those things burrowed out from underground, every bird roosting within tens of thousands of kilometers had already taken flight. Countless Magic Beasts and wild animals no longer cared to attack each other. Instead, they fled madly into the distance like a tide, forming wave after wave of beast stampedes across the wilderness...
At that moment, even mindless beasts sensed the terror of the apocalypse's arrival and scattered in panic.
At this time, the elderly