From the moment Ke Meng began pulling the stars, obvious changes swept across the entire land.
The players noticed clear fluctuations in the planet's gravity, which alternated between strong and weak.
Sometimes, people flying through the air were dragged straight down by immense gravity, crashing into the ground and losing over ten thousand Health Points.
Worse still, this happened often, in rapid succession.
Colin, a player who had become a true god, sensed through some inexplicable intuition that the gravitational tides came from the direction of the sea.
"Something strange is happening out at sea. Come on, let's take a look!" Colin glanced at Nara and Nina in the square. They had already fallen unconscious, trapped for eternity in a Cursed Cycle. There was no need to worry about them jumping out again.
Still, just in case, he decided to bring them along, lest they suddenly turn on him.
Taking Nara and Nina with him, Colin set off. Through a temporary tree-hollow portal opened by a Druid player, he arrived instantly at the edge of an island.
The ocean was unpredictable. Deep blue waves rose high one moment and sank low the next. Even the water molecules in the air moved in irregular, chaotic patterns, no longer following the wind.
"It's R'lyeh. Something's happening in R'lyeh."
"Who's stirring up trouble in R'lyeh?"
"Could it be... Cthulhu is awakening?"
Colin and the other players watched the shifting sea from the island, surprise showing on their faces.
Above them, the Nameless Mist blocked the players' view. No one knew what changes were taking place above the gray fog.
Colin, however, having already attained Godhood, detected something unusual in the starry sky overhead.
"The gravitational pull of the celestial bodies is changing. Someone is connecting with gravity. No... someone is controlling gravity, pulling