On Definition's Spine, at the Prayer Platform.
After more than ten days of exploration, nearly all the Primordial Monsters on Definition's Spine had been contained.
Even the "Source of Extreme Cold" left behind by the Ice Prisoner Race all those years ago had been packed up and taken away by a player who discovered it by chance, appearing at Dream Island's auction the very next day.
The raging snowstorm that had shrouded Definition's back for countless years lost its source and began to weaken.
The cold wind no longer cut like knives, and the snow grew sparse. Sunlight streamed through gaps in the storm, illuminating the ancient buildings frozen for ages.
Now, players once again crowded around the previously deserted Prayer Platform altar.
Three hours earlier, the Phantom Sound Poem Team had announced on the forum that they would attempt to unlock the Prayer Platform's spatial passage today.
The news spread rapidly.
The livestream was even livelier.
The number of curious players, skeptics, and spectators surged.
Related discussion threads on the forum climbed in popularity at an astonishing rate.
Most players had little hope for this attempt.
The Phantom Sound Poem Team had not explained their method in detail on the forum, so the players' guesses drew on some of the ideas previously proposed there.
The general consensus was that destroying the altar was easy, but opening the subspace connected to it was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
As for containing Definition, that was utterly impossible.
Definition was a Divine Realm being, an incarnation of an Origin Primordial rule. Even Tu Hu, the strongest in the Player Faction, had only just reached the threshold of demigodhood. That gulf could not easily be crossed in a short time.
Cracking it through technique was equally difficult.
The Phantom Sound Clan had