This energy fluctuation was extremely well concealed, as if someone were actively controlling it and preventing it from leaking out.
If Duke and the others had not had an energy detector, they would not have discovered such a peculiar energy fluctuation either.
Normally, since this energy fluctuation was so obscure and had not even reached this place, it would have been difficult to detect.
This book was first published online exclusively by .
However, judging from the state of the people before them, they had clearly sensed this energy fluctuation and were deliberately waiting here for something.
Duke and the others simply waited there as well. Though they did not know what these people were waiting for, they only needed to follow along. They were already here anyway.
After this suffocating silence had lasted for roughly half an hour, a sudden change occurred.
Rumble!
A tremendously muffled boom seemed to come from deep beneath the earth, making the entire Blood-Red Plains tremble.
Immediately afterward, an indescribably violent energy fluctuation erupted from the depths of the unexplored region like an invisible tsunami, sweeping toward them.
The energy was so fierce that the dark red bloodstains lying dormant on the ground for countless years seemed stimulated at that instant, lighting up with faint red glimmers that vanished in a flash.
The rusty, bloody stench in the air suddenly grew several times stronger, even carrying a strange, heart-pounding sweetness.
In the distance, even the visible space began to warp and ripple violently, like air beneath intense heat, while the light was torn into fragments.
All those who had been waiting there moved, rising into the air and staring toward the distant area.
That place was no longer shrouded in darkness. Instead, it was filled with fiery red light, nearly illuminating this entire fragment