Yet this Stabilization was not a sign that the crisis had been dispelled, but rather the prelude to a far more terrifying beginning.
This mutation meant that the last layer of Space barrier separating the Gaia Main World from the Abyss Plane had completely dissolved.
The two had now achieved a thorough, all-encompassing connection, with no blind spots remaining.
At the instant the barrier collapsed, a vast flood of Abyss Breath, thick to the extreme, surged out of the rift like a breach of black waters, madly spewing forth.
Pitch-black Abyss mist rolled and roared; wherever it passed, the air turned icy and bone-piercing in an instant, and plants withered and yellowed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Within this Abyss Breath was mingled the bloody foulness accumulated over countless years, and a frenzy of brutality that pierced down to the very origin.
