Lin Yan Interrogated by Gu Yuena: Is the Abyss Your Newly Chosen Protagonist for This Era?

The atmosphere across the battlefield, which had only just lifted with victory, froze in an instant.

"What's going on?"

"The spatial fluctuations are rising again!"

"Hadn't they just stabilized?!"

"The energy readings are still climbing!"

"Didn't we just drive them back?!"

Alarms blared in a chaotic chorus inside the Federation's frontline command center.

Some people frantically pulled up spatial monitoring data, others tried to reconnect to the frontline Soul Tools, and still others repeatedly checked whether the system had issued a false alarm.

But no one could explain it.

Because from that moment on, what they had believed was "the Abyss's offensive being repelled" began to look like a joke.

No overwhelming army poured out of the rift at first.

Only a single figure slowly emerged from the depths of the darkness.

A man.

He stood tall and straight, an ornate robe draped over him, an enormous golden cape unfurling behind him in the wind.

His face was exceptionally handsome, even perfect.

Judging by appearance alone, he hardly seemed to come from the same place as those hideous, twisted Abyssal creatures.

Yet his eyes held none of the emotions that belonged to humans.

No anger, no bloodlust, no madness.

Nor did they hold the uncontrollable greed those low-level Abyssal creatures displayed at the sight of flesh and blood.

Only calm.

The almost matter-of-fact calm of a higher life-form looking down on lesser beings.

He simply stood there, doing nothing.

The clouds across the entire sky had already begun to slowly twist.

It was not caused by Soul Power.

Rather, spiritual power so immense it was almost incomprehensible was unconsciously affecting the surrounding environment.

Whole swathes of frontline Spiritual Detection Soul Tools erupted into static.

Several Soul Masters responsible for Spiritual Sharing grunted at the same time. Some clutched their heads