"Why... did the quest change..."
Lin Xinyi looked at the quest named "Whispers of the Light Deity" on her quest panel.
Originally, the quest only required her to learn of the Blood Galaxy and obtain a drop of its water.
Yet for some reason, the moment she sensed space contracting, "Whispers of the Light Deity" changed to "Ascension of the Light Deity."
The quest no longer required her to obtain water from the Blood Galaxy, but to find the "Blood Galaxy" amid the erosion of darkness.
To be honest, Lin Xinyi could not quite understand what this quest meant.
The darkness in the "Guangming and Darkness's Sea of Stars · Starry Sky" dungeon neither attacked people nor eroded units, so why would she need to avoid it?
But the instant that thought settled, she suddenly sensed something, halted her group's advance, and stared fixedly into the profound darkness ahead.
"The radiance of light never shines upon living beings!"
"The intoxication of darkness is the yearning of endless deep blue!"
"Would you... give yourselves to darkness?"
A low, hoarse voice came from the depths of the darkness. Then black creatures outlined by faint light emerged from it, one after another.
At first, they were only the size of fingernails, writhing in dense masses like boiling water.
But soon, their bodies began to expand, reaching lengths of ten thousand meters, a hundred thousand meters, and ten million meters.
"They're the Abyss's Observing Worms..."
"Quick, shrink your divine bodies and return to mortal size."
Huang Tianyang's pupils contracted, and he immediately barked in a low voice.
The next second, everyone, including Lin Xinyi, shrank their bodies back to human size.
As they did so, the continuously expanding Observing Worms also shrank at a visible rate to the centimeter scale.
"The radiance of light