Asaka Akie murmured, "What... is this?"
She wasn't the only one wondering. Everyone else was just as confused.
Stretching out before them was an endless "black ocean."
Its "water" wasn't liquid, but countless Black-Skinned Monsters' corpses, tangled together.
The idiom "mountains of corpses and seas of blood" had never been more apt. No one could tell how many bodies lay here. A billion? Ten billion?
Billions of corpses formed an ocean that easily swept over mountains and flooded plains. It surged forward like a raging torrent, swallowing everything in its path and turning it into part of the sea.
Even Tsukimi Mei, who was usually unflappable, looked grave. The others were so stunned they couldn't speak.
Of the five present, only Li Yu looked as though she'd seen it all before.
Fang Cheng had thought nothing could surprise him anymore, but it seemed he was still too young.
He turned to Tsukimi Mei. "What's going on?"
Tsukimi Mei gazed into the depths of the Sea of Corpses and replied, "It's probably the Evil God Consciousness Fragment that escaped from Ootengu. It must have caused this."
Kanzaki Rin asked from beside him, "What is an Evil God Consciousness Fragment?"
Fang Cheng didn't know either. Ootengu had brought it back after taking part in the first Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters competition, and it was also the culprit behind Ugou Mirai's occasional bouts of corruption.
Tsukimi Mei showed no intention of explaining. Li Yu suddenly cut in, "It's what remains after an Evil God dies."
All three of them looked at her. Fang Cheng asked, "You know about it?"
"I've seen one before."
Li Yu looked down at the scene below. "It's what an Evil God leaves behind after death. You could call it a kind of mental energy. It corrupts people's