"What's going on? Why does it suddenly feel like it's gotten colder?"
"I feel it too—so cold! Even using immortal power to protect my body isn't doing anything. How strange..."
"Has the Abyss upheaval ended? Did the Immortal Emperor suppress the Abyss? Then why do I still feel so uneasy, like a great calamity is about to descend? Strange—too strange..."
"Hiss... That battle just now was terrifying. Good thing I hid far away, or I'd have died from even a stray shockwave! I personally saw Lord Black Tiger get killed by a single aftershock just now. Lord Black Tiger was an Invincible Immortal Lord, yet he died so easily! Terrifying!"
"Is it safe now?"
"..."
Large numbers of people in the city began cautiously leaving their hiding places, peeking around and speaking to one another warily.
In truth, hiding was merely a source of psychological comfort.
If Mysterious Yellow City were truly breached and the Immortal Emperor could not withstand the Abyss, then there would be nowhere to hide.
Faced with endless Abyss monsters, no matter how powerful one was, death would be inevitable.
What had just happened was simply too horrifying. Many people still had not recovered, only staring blankly at everything around them as though they had been frightened senseless.
"Why does something as terrifying as the Abyss exist in this world?"
"It must be the gods—the gods are punishing us!"
"It's too dangerous here. I want to leave Mysterious Yellow City! What... we're not allowed to leave now? How can you do this?! You said before that joining Mysterious Yellow City and leaving it were entirely voluntary. Now that the unrest has settled, why won't you let us leave?!"
"What spy? I haven't been possessed by dark creatures!"
"Damn it..."
Some people wanted to leave Mysterious Yellow