December, Year 8 of the Calendar of the Gods.
The Wizard Council seized the moment when the United Navy and the Atlantis Empire were fighting their decisive battle.
While the eyes of the entire world were focused there.
Led by the Wizard Speaker, hundreds of Legendary combatants launched a surprise attack on the Lyon Empire.
In a mere instant, they dealt the Lyon Empire a devastating blow.
The Lyon Empire then fought desperately, with heavy casualties among the Legendary combatants on both sides as the fighting spread across the entire New World.
The two sides fought until dusk.
Suddenly, a violent boom resounded throughout the world, and the entire New World shook violently, as though a Legendary Earthquake Spell had struck the whole continent!
Then, before everyone's eyes, the entire New World was torn in half!
The whole world was stunned!
Not only the Lyon Empire, but even the Wizard Council's side was bewildered.
But while they were dumbfounded, others were not.
The natives of the New World instantly flew into a rage, and large numbers of Legendary combatants spontaneously began attacking the Wizard Council!
Though furious, the natives of the New World hated the Wizard Council more, so they certainly would not target the Lyon Empire at a time like this.
The addition of the New World's Legendary combatants slowed the Lyon Empire's march toward destruction.
The chaotic battle continued across the New World for an entire week!
All three sides suffered heavy losses!
In the end, the splitting of the New World allowed a suppressed Abyss Lord to escape, and he used the hundreds of millions of souls of those killed by the rupture to open a passage to the Abyss.
Only when this brought an invasion from the Abyss did the two sides stop fighting.
After all,