The Chaos Witch Array was complete, and the Chaos Domain unfolded!
The entire witch array activated rapidly, lighting up with vast amounts of grayish-white radiance.
When that grayish-white light touched the air, it began to spread, forming a slowly churning layer of grayish-white mist.
The mist flowed close to the ground. Wherever it passed, matter and energy were broken down and assimilated, everything reduced to nothingness.
The withered grass on the wasteland snapped, curled, and crumbled into fine dust upon touching the mist.
Birds and beasts that came into contact with the grayish-white mist could not even let out a cry before instantly turning to ash.
Even the scattered stones on the ground developed tiny cracks upon touching the mist, then shattered into fine powder that mixed into the mist and was carried onward with it.
The more matter and energy it broke down and assimilated, the denser the power of chaos within the witch array became, building into an overwhelming tide.
On the wasteland, those fleeing from all directions toward Alchemy Main City also saw the mist.
The first to spot it were several young people walking at the front. After climbing over a low slope, they saw grayish-white mist rising at the end of the horizon.
Unlike ordinary fog, it did not drift apart. Instead, it advanced swiftly along the ground, its edge neat and orderly, like a wall slowly moving forward.
The sight was utterly abnormal.
The young people stopped. One of them, with sharper eyesight, saw the flowers, grass, and trees shrouded by the grayish-white mist.
The sight of them instantly withering and crumbling terrified him, and he cried out in panic, "Run! This mist eats people!"
Before his shout had even faded, the others turned and began running back.
Now that the mist had blocked