"Healing! Quick, heal me!"
"Damn it, these Abyss Maggots can actually regrow their limbs without even triggering resurrection. Damn it."
"Shieldguards... where are the Shieldguards? Get up there!"
"Ice spirits of heaven and earth, heed Mine summons, descend..."
"Watch Mine, Whirlwind Axe!"
Outside the "Skysea of the Empty Realm," above the Sakas Empire, Zhou Heng slowly lowered his gaze. His field of vision covered a radius of 10,000 kilometers, a distance that brought almost the entire Sakas Empire in the present world into view. In the direction the Imperial Throne had originally faced in "Salendo," the Sakast Imperial Capital, the million-meter "Abyss Portal" stood tall. Countless streams of black aura poured out, forming a thick, tangible black line that stretched all the way from the "Abyss Portal" to the imperial capital, "Salendo."
Countless players and NPCs fought back in cities, towns, and villages. Their enemies were either upright humanoid Abyss monsters or Abyss-corrupted creatures such as cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs. They gained negative experience points by killing "Abyss Creatures." Although Zhou Heng did not know why the Abyss system used negative experience points, his intuition told him there was definitely something here he did not know. His strength was simply too feeble for him to qualify to touch upon it yet. Thinking about it, that made sense. Even the Abyss Outskirts involved "Divine Truth," so how could a little fellow like him, at level 81, investigate such a fundamental experience setting?
As Zhou Heng reached into the present world and began to manifest, notifications appeared on the retinas of countless players and NPCs fighting "Abyss monsters"...
[Fourth faction detected: "Light"] [You have received one opportunity to reselect your "faction"] [The "Light" faction was provisionally established by faction master "Zhou Heng"]
"What's going on? Why is