Gu Yue abruptly turned to look at him.
Di Tian said nothing.
He reached out and waved his hand through the air.
A light screen unfurled before them.
It was a record of a battle.
In the footage, the sky was torn open by a gigantic fissure.
Dark red flames burned along its edges, like the eye of some hideous beast.
Then they came.
Abyssal Creatures.
They poured out of the fissure like a surging tide.
Their forms were twisted. Some had a dozen tentacles, some were covered in bone spikes, and some looked like they were made from countless corpses stitched together.
They shrieked and roared as they charged toward the human defensive line.
Soul Cannons thundered.
Beams tore through the air, exploding into blooms of blood among the Abyssal Creatures.
Black blood and severed limbs flew everywhere.
But even more surged forward.
They trampled over their comrades' corpses, advancing one after another without pause.
The gap that had just been blasted open was filled again within moments.
The human defensive line began to retreat.
Blood soaked into the scorched earth.
The sound of a communicator came from the footage, its voice tinged with panic.
"The Abyss Passage is expanding! The main force will be able to fully descend in three days at most!"
"Have the reinforcements still not arrived?"
"The Federation Third Mecha Division is on the way. It'll take at least two days!"
"Two days? We won't last two days!"
Despair spread.
In the footage, young soldiers knelt in pools of blood, wailing.
A commander drew his sword and took his own life.
Some stood motionless, staring at the dark red sky, the light gone from their eyes.
Just then, the sky suddenly lit up.
A white pillar of light plunged down from the heavens.
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