Within the Recess, the corpses that had been floating on the surface opened their eyes. At that moment, they all seemed to possess spiritual awareness, struggling to rise one after another.
The corpses already floating near the edges immediately crawled toward the "shore," but an invisible restriction soon blocked their advance. Undeterred, they opened their mouths to bite at what lay ahead, waving their arms, scratching with their claws, and pounding fiercely with their palms.
The corpses in the middle of the Recess floundered in the water for a while, then skeletal hands and heads emerged beneath them. The skeletons formed floating bridges of bone, allowing the corpses above to tread on them and rush to the shore, joining the assault on the restriction ahead.
Last came the skeletons from the deepest part of the Recess. They climbed ashore from the depths, white light gleaming in their once-empty eye sockets, and began charging at the restriction ahead as well.
The restriction over the Recess was probably like the Triple Seal the Law Expounder had cast overhead, covering this place like a pot lid.
So the corpses inside began biting and scratching at its lower edges. Gradually, those behind stepped on the bodies in front to claw higher up. Like a swarm of ants, they covered even the space above the Recess with bones, everyone frantically striking every corner of the restriction with all their strength.
Kallen stood there. Although he had "awakened" so many at once this time, it had not cost him much-not even as much as using the Spear of Discipline once more.
That was because these corpses did not need him to pour spiritual power into them. They had been lying in this swamp filled with generations of resentment and already possessed the conditions necessary for awakening.