Heaven-Piercing Tower, Falling Star Sea.
The Falling Star Archipelago was no longer a beautiful place for vacations and leisure. Three months ago, inexplicable energy fluctuations had appeared here. When the Sea Race sent people to investigate, they found nothing. Just as people dismissed it as a natural phenomenon and relaxed, continuing to enjoy the beaches and sunshine, a succession of attacks gave the Falling Star Sea the vile name of the Sea of Blood.
Including Sea Race warriors, a total of six thousand guards, mercenaries, and Innate Alliance powerhouses had perished here.
At the same time, tens of thousands of vacationers and a small number of older-generation warriors who had retired and settled in the Falling Star Archipelago floated as corpses upon the Falling Star Sea.
The entire force had been wiped out.
Not a single survivor had remained through wave after wave of attacks.
Such a bloody, brutal massacre shocked the entire Heaven-Piercing Tower.
Experts from the Demon Abyss and Dragon Soaring Continent had poured out to search, while the Demonic Temple had even laid an ambush here for an entire month. Yet, strangely enough, they still found nothing.
All kinds of rumors spread among the races of the Heaven-Piercing Tower. The most credible version claimed that some immensely powerful and extraordinarily savage ancient evil warrior had awakened from his seal. Desperate to restore his strength, he had used evil arts and blood sacrifices to slaughter the residents and travelers around the Falling Star Sea... As for why he had vanished without a trace after several consecutive waves of slaughter, it was because he had already acquired enough blood and energy. That ancient evil warrior was preparing to refine and absorb it, hiding somewhere secluded to recover his strength. That was why the searches had yielded nothing. If this