Everything that happened next was exactly as the previous ghost had described.
The war spreading through the Thorn Stone Forest began to affect the World Pillar, and during one battle, its stone wall was shattered.
A huge hole extended from the outside into the Great Rift, causing many of the clueless Natural Gas Race to drift out.
Most of the Natural Gas Race had no desire to explore the world and instead continued to loaf around in the Great Rift. This meant that when the crisis arrived, they lacked the knowledge to escape.
Who would have thought that the once-forbidden knowledge could have actually saved them when the World Pillar was breached?
Only those of the Natural Gas Race who were knowledgeable enough to hide in concealed crevices, or who had communicated enough with the outside world to understand that turning into a liquid state would keep them from floating away, survived.
