The plan was ultimately implemented.

Sigrid’s uneasy premonition may not have been unfounded, but it might not necessarily have been related to this matter, this place.

Watching the gigantic magic island shatter into countless pieces amidst the simple and unadorned dragon breath of the little dragon girl, and seeing the Abyssal creatures besieging the 【Light Blessing】 barrier lose their power one after another, crashing down, Violet felt somewhat relieved.

With this, the Abyssal tides raging in the south of the world would gradually calm down, and the pressure on Lilya, one of the main resistance forces, would also greatly diminish.

Even Violet couldn’t fully anticipate this sudden disaster, despite warnings from the “Revelator” Menna and hints from the “Oracle.” Due to the unknown nature of the so-called “Sealed City,” Little Menna’s foretold future still came to pass.

With things having come to this point, Violet also learned some secrets belonging to the internal affairs of the Azure Sky Kingdom from Hilda’s words.

In fact, the Spryce Island, or the “Abyssal Well,” itself is a huge gateway connecting the two worlds. However, it is different from the floating island areas that were once struck by the red light pillars, which Seth referred to as the “Doomsday Bombardment.”

Although the passage of the “Abyssal Well” is wide enough to accommodate massive objects like the magic island passing through, there is a special layer in the center that cannot be detected or entered without specific means. If Abyssal creatures want to enter the mortal realm, they must first traverse these easily lost and turbulent fissures.

And the winged people who are deeper in spatial theory have stationed heavy defenses in this layer of space, and even built complete small cities using special methods.

To keep the secrets of the Abyss, the stationed winged people are self-sufficient and reproduce inside, and only a few true high-level figures of the Azure Sky Kingdom, such as the Feathered Emperor, or individuals like Hilda, know the method of entry.

Even Sigrid, due to her recent appointment as one of the “Four Wings,” had not yet had the opportunity to learn this secret.

The exits and entrances of the spatial fissures are completely different. Even if the Abyssal creatures break through here, they will be sent to another distant, heavily guarded encirclement by more military forces.

The winged people have long known about the existence of the Abyss and Abyssal creatures and have been fighting against them for a long time, but it was only a few years ago that the catastrophe spread their existence to the surface.

During the three days when Hilda disappeared as the Human United Kingdom delegation was about to leave Spryce City, she actually went to the front lines of the battlefield to confront a suddenly appearing powerful mutated Abyssal creature. Although she eventually killed it, she also suffered very serious injuries and didn’t fully recover until the eve of the catastrophe.

Originally, due to the existence of the spatial fissure, the red light called the Doomsday Bombardment should not have been able to directly hit the Spryce Island. But on the night of the disaster, an unknown and terrifying entity forcefully tore open the spatial fissure, causing the floating island to shatter and fall during the bombardment.

That was Seth in the illusion.

Even the winged people did not know that the existence of the Spryce Island was the direct foundation maintaining that spatial fissure. When the island collapsed, this important defense line that had lasted for thousands of years, along with all the winged people inside it, were all crushed in the chaos of space.

After that, there was the massive invasion of the Abyss.

That’s the whole story of the event.

Although this huge disaster lasted for less than half a month and hadn’t had time to fully spread, according to the intelligence Violet received before she left, at least thirty million lives had already been engulfed by the tide of the Abyss. The most severely affected Inaccessible Zone saw close to ten countries completely vanish.

Miss Priestess waved the magnificent holy staff she had just taken out, and a faint yet sacred golden light spread rapidly around her.

The light, like rain in spring, dispersed the lingering gray mist, clearing the dim sky once again. The polluted air gradually became fresh. Although the land, withered by the death mist, couldn’t immediately regain its vitality, with the nourishment of light, new life would surely settle here again sooner or later.

“Hope… it can end smoothly.”

………………………………………

On the battlefield of the Forest of Calamity, now known as the Radiant Forest.

“Ah! Ahh!!”

The piercing scream, only heard when a creature is on the brink of death, echoed nearby. Without hesitation, Crimson Flame Flora shot an arrow directly towards the source, piercing through the ferocious Abyssal creature that had already impaled a warrior in front of it with its sharp claws, causing it to fly backward and land firmly on the ground, lifeless.

The soldier, whose heart had been pierced along with his armor, had already collapsed, completely devoid of breath. However, the Abyssal creature continued to struggle, attempting to pull out the specially hardened arrow that had pierced through its brain and deep into the ground.

These creatures were indeed tenacious.

Even Crimson Flame Flora couldn’t always incorporate the simulation rules of “Nothingness” with every attack. Without it, even if she could consistently hit the enemies’ heads with her arrows, she couldn’t inflict effective damage since these monsters lacked the vulnerabilities of normal creatures.

Archers were particularly ill-suited for dealing with them.

Since arriving here more than ten hours ago, after coincidentally killing what seemed to be a formidable Abyssal worm, they had been in constant combat. Although it took considerable effort to reach the corpse of the giant worm, unfortunately, they couldn’t find anything useful. It seemed that after the creature died and disintegrated in the air, it had been devoured by other monsters nearby, leaving behind only an empty skull.

With no other choice, she and Farnell could only break through the encirclement and return to this side of the defense line. After a brief exchange with the urgently arrived Grand Marshal Bertram Grace, they immediately joined the battle against the onslaught of Abyssal creatures.

Although they didn’t understand why, Flora found that her self-created simulation rule of “Nothingness” indeed caused very effective damage to these monsters, as if it countered them one for one. At the most critical moments, by merging the rule with the second technique of the Crimson Lotus – the Rain of Arrows, she managed to kill thousands of Abyssal creatures, turning the tide of the battle.

But human strength has its limits. After fighting for so long, almost everyone on the battlefield, including Crimson Flame Flora and Farnell Stephens, was injured and exhausted.

Meanwhile, the monsters from the Abyss continued to maintain their original fierce momentum, relentlessly assaulting the crumbling defense line as if they would never stop.

It seemed impossible to hold on any longer.

Such thoughts gradually crept into everyone’s minds.

This wasn’t the first retreat, but with each successive withdrawal, they were getting dangerously close to leaving the boundaries of the Radiant Forest. If they lost this seemingly divinely blessed battleground, defending would undoubtedly become even more difficult.