Desolate and remote, the cluster of unfinished buildings was no place to be.
The empty structures had no interior work done at all. One after another, they stood starkly exposed beneath the moonlight, like pigeon coops, radiating an eerie chill in the darkness.
Yet within the barren construction site enclosed by those unfinished buildings, a brutal battlefield had already formed. The surrounding air had become incomparably gloomy, and at every entrance and exit among the buildings, it thickened like murky sludge, viscous enough to seem almost tangible.
A mass of blackness...
Like a pitch-black sea, no one knew how many monsters lay dormant and hidden beneath that darkness.
They surged out from those dark shadows like a tide, as though some unknown dimensional space in that lightless darkness connected to another world. Or perhaps they had always been densely scattered throughout this world, only revealing themselves now that some boundary had been crossed.
They could be seen now, and they had formed a connection with the material world. They could interfere with one another...
And therefore—they could be killed.
A huge, laser-like beam of brilliance swept through them. In an instant, the black tide collapsed and scattered. Using the tide to grind Demons and Monsters, the faster they came, the faster they were wiped out. Their respawn speed directly determined someone's monster-farming efficiency.
Most of them, however, were mindless and spiritually dull creatures. Formed from vast, chaotic negative emotions, they naturally inherited the traits of those emotions. Confused and disorderly, they acted almost entirely on instinct and impulse—
Like rage, greed, resentment... all such things, with reason being the only thing absent.
Naturally, they could not be killed off completely. Especially now, when their numbers were so great, this swelling rabble knew even less of fear. Their eyes contained nothing