The next day.
Early that morning, Chen Fan was still asleep when Chen Jiutian's voice from a Message Talisman woke him.
He hurriedly washed, dressed, and went to the shore.
There, he saw a staggering sight.
More than a dozen Space Rifts hung above the waters of Jiangbei, and they were still expanding.
At a glance,
each Space Rift looked like a gash torn through heaven and earth. Its interior was pitch-black, without a speck of light, and gave off a faint sense of unfathomable dread.
As though anyone who stumbled into one
would vanish forever.
"A heads-up."
"This is a common natural disaster in the World Battlefield: Space Rifts. They appear at random."
"If one appears within a continent, it tears apart whatever was originally in its place."
"Mountains, buildings, rivers, cities, and so on."
"They cannot be stopped. They're random natural disasters."
"Space Rifts are more likely to appear where space is unstable, as it is in the World Battlefield. Outside the World Battlefield, the odds are much lower."
"Under normal circumstances, though,"
"while Space Rifts can't be resisted, they rarely cause a continent much damage unless they happen to engulf its lord or an important building. Even if a continent lord possesses a Jade Seal, what happens to him after falling into a Space Rift is unknown."
"If he's lucky, he'll reappear somewhere else in the world, crossing millions of kilometers in an instant."
"If he's unlucky, no one knows what will happen."
"Generally, Space Rifts appear one at a time, and an ordinary rift is only a few dozen meters long. One over a hundred meters already counts as large; one over a thousand meters is enormous and extremely rare."
"It's almost unheard of for more than a dozen Space Rifts to appear together, much less