To Su Bai, the disappearance of the Doll that served as the Fog City Lord's avatar had been silent and unnoticed, but the players outside the shop, the residents fleeing through Fog City, and the Ghost Creatures that had already shed their shells experienced something very different.
Strange phenomena had begun appearing in the city outside from the moment Mayor Bai entered the Mist Shop. After all, the instant the dense fog's avatar stepped through the door, he had been isolated within a special space, severing part of the Fog City Lord's mind and consciousness in an instant. That was no small matter.
The illusion of peace throughout Fog City began to grow extremely unstable. Even areas untouched by the dense fog began to reveal ruined buildings of wildly different styles piled together. The real Fog City flickered before everyone's eyes like an illusion.
White lanterns floating low to the ground even appeared at several street intersections outside the Dense Fog Zone. These unlit lanterns flickered at the crossroads like the phantom city itself. They seemed to be the Eternal Lamps that had originally been waiting for the "Hero" to light them.
Even the dense fog, which had previously appeared only within a certain area, began spreading erratically into its surroundings.
The Ghost Creatures and Fog City residents entangled in the blood mist also grew more agitated and frightened.
These strange phenomena continued, worsening all the while.
Only when "Mayor Bai," imprisoned inside the Mist Shop, was swallowed by the power of a certain shop owner's suddenly manifested Betrothed did all the strange phenomena in the city reach a major turning point.
But this so-called turning point did not mean the phenomena abruptly stopped, or even that the disturbances outside were brought under control. Instead, the strange phenomena throughout Fog