"Hiss..."
Kuang Shao's laughter cut off abruptly. He shuddered, the smile instantly freezing on his face.
It wasn't just him. Everyone present, including the ever-cool and composed [God Never Cries], and even [Ji Luo], who stood at the very front.
At that instant, they all felt as though an invisible, icy hand had clamped tightly around their hearts!
Breathing grew difficult, and the light around them seemed to dim under some unknown power.
Even the edges of their vision began to take on a faint, unsettling dark-red tint.
"Fuck... what's going on?"
The red gleam in Lu Ziye's eyes flickered violently. Several dark-red tendrils of flesh shot out from beneath his robe, writhing wildly in midair like venomous snakes!
They knew this oppressive sensation all too well!
It was the same instinctive, soul-deep fear suppression they had experienced when facing that second-tier Screaming Golem in Fog Town!
"Did an enemy sneak into the Church?"
Ji Luo's expression darkened, and a sharp Ash Longsword instantly formed in his hand!
Every player present stopped what they were doing and turned in unison toward the source of that fear.
It was the half-open entrance to the Ash Church!
In the deathly silence that engulfed everyone.
"Creeeak..."
The heavy wooden door was slowly pushed open from within.
Then a figure wearing an Ash Robe stepped slowly out of the Church's shadows.
[God Never Laughs], who normally spent all day grinning and joking around, now seemed like an entirely different person.
His hood was pulled so low that it concealed most of his face.
Within the shadows beneath it, two points of dim black light pulsed slowly, like stagnant waters in the Abyss.
Merely being swept by those somewhat hollow eyes of his.
Was enough to give some of the more timid players an uncontrollable