The two Space-Time Gates that had pierced into the Dimensional Esophagus formed two vast vortices hundreds of thousands of meters in diameter in the skies above different regions of the gray, hazy Dimensional Esophagus. Violent space-time fluctuations spread throughout the entire Dimensional Esophagus.
A suffocating pressure descended from the sky overhead.
One emanated a soft pale-golden glow, while the other produced the "clatter, clatter, clatter" of cards being shuffled. Even invasions by absurd, illusory rules such as the Dimension Gap, the Other Shore Yellow Springs Realm, and the Ashen World had never brought such a terrifying phenomenon upon the Dimensional Esophagus.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Though they knew this was the origin point of the Dimensional Esophagus's apocalyptic cleansing, some Dimensional Esophagus monsters still gathered there in shadowy clusters, all gazing up at the sky above.
To wage a dimensional war, the dimensional legions had to pass from the material-energy world through layer upon layer of illusory worlds, fighting their way to the Dimensional Esophagus before finally breaking through the dimensional shackles of the Endless World and launching war against those high-dimensional beings. Along the way, untold lower, middle, and higher illusory worlds had been shattered. No matter how powerful an illusory world was, it could scarcely withstand the pinnacle civilization that had arisen from several world clusters.
As the apocalyptic cleansing of the Dimensional Esophagus descended, the many monsters on Bone Continent fell into three different states.
The vast majority, faced with inescapable death, had gone completely mad. They indulged their desires without restraint, did whatever they pleased, ignored every binding rule, and disregarded all consequences—killing, torturing, taking revenge, issuing challenges. It was utter chaos.
Another portion of the Dimensional Esophagus monsters gathered rationally, forming enormous settlements containing thousands upon thousands, even tens of