BOOM!
With a deafening crash, monstrous waves surged skyward.
They heaved up ten-thousand-foot billows, as though they could shatter mountains, shake the heavens, and move the earth.
Within the great waves was someone.
In a wretched state, he was swept up by the towering tide of blood, tossed this way and that.
After who knew how long, he finally smashed heavily into the ground.
With another BOOM, the earth cracked apart.
It had once been a plain over a thousand kilometers in diameter, vast and boundless, large enough to build a great nation housing over a billion people.
Yet with a single violent tremor, it suffered an immensely severe collapse. Millions of cubic meters of earth and stone slid downward, with over one percent of the entire plain lost.
The scattered floodwaters receded swiftly.
Because, in the distance, an incomparably terrifying wave was howling toward them. Its tremendous potential energy continuously drew in the bloodwater around it, gathering it toward itself.
Faced with this scene, atop the collapsed mountain, the man who had been smashed down hard and coughed up nearly a liter of blood clung desperately to the mountain wall with both hands to keep from being swept back into that dreadful tsunami. He could not help letting out a strange cry.
Using both hands and feet, he scrambled upward like a madman.
This man's condition was miserable.
His flesh had melted away. More than seventy percent of his body exposed stark white bones. His internal organs had been seared to ruin; his intestines were pitted and scarred, eighty percent of his lungs had rotted away, his liver was blackened, and even his heart leaked air.
His injuries were severe.
Truly severe.
Yet strangely, despite such devastating wounds, he moved with extraordinary agility and speed. Before long, he had