"Bzzzz—"
With a long hum, the moment they passed through the End Portal, the Screen displayed a loading image like distorted starlight.
There was no wind, no insects, and even the background music had become an ethereal, oppressive low-frequency white noise, as though it were drifting in from the depths of the universe.
When their vision finally cleared again—
"Woof! Help! Don't crowd me! I'm about to fall!"
Scarlet King's terrified barking immediately followed. Only then did everyone realize they were crammed onto an Obsidian platform no bigger than five by five.
All around and beneath the platform was bottomless, pitch-black void!
If they took even half a step too far forward, they would fall straight into that endless abyss, with no hope of recovering even their dropped items.
"Don't move!"
Huo Yuhao hurriedly stopped the group from panicking. He glanced at a massive floating island roughly twenty blocks away, one made entirely of a pale yellowish stone.
"We spawned on a void platform. We need to build a bridge over there. Wang Qiuer, where are your blocks?"
"Leave it to me. Watch this lady's high-speed bridging technique."
Wang Qiuer lavishly pulled out a full stack of dirt and, with practiced ease, faced away from the void as she laid down a block bridge backward, one step at a time, toward the main island.
Everyone carefully followed the dirt bridge and set foot on the pale land known as The End.
The instant their feet touched the End Stone, an air of desolation washed over them.
Not a single blade of grass grew on this enormous island.
There was no sun or moon in the sky, only a gray haze filled with static like television snow.
Towering Obsidian pillars rose into the clouds like sharp swords piercing the sky, encircling