"Shibal! What's going on over in Busan?"
"That's... that looks like an upper-level energy storm?!"
"I heard an NPC say that deep beneath the Game World, everything is filled with upper-level energy. This is all upper-level energy from underground!!"
"Wait, does this mean the Busan Game Zone is gone?"
"That must be it. Busan players just started resurrecting nonstop in our Changyuan Ruins, and every one of them was killed by Dark Shadow!"
"Dark Shadow killed every player in Busan and destroyed the Busan Game Zone too?"
As word spread among the players in the Changyuan Ruins, they gradually understood the truth of what had happened.
After all, some of the Busan players resurrecting here had participated in the Moon God Divine Palace's "uprising" against Verzhini. They had even seen "Dark Shadow" with their own eyes.
But not a single person had foreseen the current situation.
Around the Changyuan Ruins, players leveling in the direction of the Busan Game Zone stopped grinding monsters in advance when they saw the upper-level energy storm approaching from afar, left combat, and chose to log out.
Others used Teleportation Stones to return to the city. In short, they got as far away from the affected area as possible.
At that moment, looking toward the Busan Game Zone from any direction, it was as though a sun had exploded within it. Terrifying flames filled the entire expanse, vaporizing all matter. Surging, dark upper-level energy formed a storm, spewing wildly up through the ground and spreading into the surrounding areas.
Some players had flying mounts. They took to the skies far away and saw it all, each of them struck dumb as though hit by a thunderbolt, terrified senseless by the apocalyptic sight.
Earthquakes? Volcanic eruptions? Tsunamis?
The natural disasters that had once been the most