Chapter 554: The "Dawn" of the Abyss
After an anxious wait, Brantai and the people of the Fanite City-State finally welcomed back Sword Saint Degoni and his party. Although their journey to the Holy Mountain had brought no good news, a surprise awaited them in the Fanite City-State.
It was Brantai's arrival with the Crystal Ornament.
Using Brantai's Crystal Ornament, and with Sword Saint Degoni calling out in the proper way, they finally heard a voice belonging to the forces of light in that world through the crystal.
The resources required for the improved Summoning Spell Formation were not actually that excessive. The Qinggelie Empire's extravagant expenditure had merely been the result of Wogevde's outsized ambition.
After several successful Summoning Spell Formations in the Qinggelie Empire, Qin Xiaoxia had also roughly worked out the threshold needed to reach Earth World's world power.
Moreover, unlike Wogevde's secretive approach, the combined mental power released by many steadfast supplicants activated the Spell Formation Array far more efficiently than Wogevde's wasteful ritual.
The first successful Summoning Spell Formation likewise caused strange tremors in a small area around the Fanite City-State. But to Qin Xiaoxia's surprise, this time it did not provoke a violent reaction from this world's own world power.
Although, after Qin Xiaoxia's repeated earnest pleas and warnings, Earth Mother's power had behaved itself quite well this time and had not casually taken another bite, Qin Xiaoxia had a strange feeling.
It seemed that this world's instincts had identified the "Great Salvation Alliance," linked together around the Fanite City-State, as the only "sane" force of living beings currently in the world.
Qin Xiaoxia found this outcome rather dramatic in itself.
In the eyes of Neil Luo, Leit, Brantai, and the many Ridge-Crowned People filled with conviction and hope,
Sword Saint Degoni had invoked