While countless Abyssal armies ravaged the thirteen planets, far away, at the entrance of the temporal-spatial portal in the assessment world…
"Damn it… what's happening to this portal?"
Knight Matt stared in horror at the portal, whispering to the knights around him.
He wasn't alone. Every soldier around him, even the millions of troops behind them, whispered the same questions.
Even the commanders at the front exchanged words, their voices filled with confusion.
"What's going on? Why has the temporal portal changed like this? And…"
The portal, once shining golden, had turned into a pitch-black passage emitting a foul stench.
Even at the outer layer, faint black mist constantly appeared and dissipated, continuously bringing more mist.
Silence reigned throughout the portal…
Even the indicator for the second teleportation hadn't lit up for a long time!
Facing this, the second team preparing to enter the Endless Abyss felt extreme terror.
"What's happening inside the portal?"
Several commanders voiced their concerns.
At that moment…
Boom! Boom!
Two massive impacts echoed from the end of the portal!
It felt like iron hammers had smashed directly into the hearts of the soldiers!
All soldiers instinctively raised their weapons…
Aiming at the portal's end!
Bang!
Suddenly, the grand door of the portal, inscribed with ornate runes, was kicked open by an unknown force.
The door, once majestic, twisted like scrap iron under this immense power!
Endless black mist poured forth!
The mist represented the will of a lower-dimensional world, slowly approaching the soldiers ready to enter the Abyss.
"Ahhh!"
A Nur soldier, trembling in fear, almost fired, but his captain grabbed his arm.
"Hold! That is…"
"Marshal Tails!"
Seeing this, the soldier's fear vanished instantly.
Sure enough, from within the black mist, Marshal Tails' head appeared.
Not only him, the other commanders were also elated.
"Marshal Tails! You're alive!"
"Sir, what happened inside the portal?"
As Marshal Tails advanced, more footsteps emerged behind him.
But when the wind blew, everyone froze.
The so-called Marshal Tails was nothing but a head!
A head held by Elrond!
"What a ridiculous 'marshal'…"
Elrond lifted his head, revealing a half-rotted face rapidly regenerating, sneering at the soldiers and commanders.
"You, like I once did, mistakenly elevated him to a height that didn't belong to him, treating him as a messenger of gods…"
Elrond's lower body had sprouted countless spider-like limbs covered in bone spikes.
His expression twisted in fury.
"But now it's different… I serve a true god, and behind me stands…"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With every step, one legendary peak demon after another appeared from the black mist!
Beside them were countless greedy, ugly lesser demons, wearing the weapons and armor taken from fallen soldiers.
Blood still dripped from some of them.
"Messengers of the true god!"
Crack! Crack!
All soldiers looked in despair at the demons behind them.
For unto death… they would never forget what they saw!
A black-red whirlpool-like world was gradually approaching their universe!
On its surface, black mist-formed tendrils rapidly extended, firmly grasping their universe.
As this twisted, terrifying world drew closer…
The dimensional walls of their world shattered further!
Countless black fissures appeared behind the demons…
Apart from spatial rules, the Endless Abyss… finally had a chance to corrupt the remaining rules of the assessment world!
At the portal's end, before millions of soldiers, despair quietly descended!
But…
In the vast assessment world, some places still ignited flames of hope!
For example…
The Black-Bone Dragon Nest.
A cohabited lair of red and black dragons, a terrifying zone housing two mythic creatures!
"(Dragon Tongue) Flames!"
With dragon speech magic, thousands of lesser demons were incinerated without even a whimper!
Their bodies, even as ashes, continued burning under the dragon flames!
This was no ordinary fire—these were the lethal dragon flames of the mythic black dragon Osiris!
Even in death, the flames burned their souls relentlessly.
No matter how much their souls struggled or screamed, the pain inflicted by these flames persisted until their spirits shattered completely!
"Hmph!"
Osiris looked at the blackened soil beneath him in disgust.
"Even when these utterly corrupted and ugly creatures die, they still leave behind filth… it's truly…"
"Infuriating!"
He spat another jet of dragon flames.
In moments, the blackened land tainted by demon blood returned to normal.
Of course, the plants that once lived there could not recover.
"Osiris, stop complaining…"
The diamond-like giant dragon Velik shook his sparkling head.
In just ten minutes, he had annihilated tens of thousands of lesser demons, along with the 'fallen subjects' who had bowed to the Endless Abyss.
"I didn't expect to wake up to such chaos. Our world has been invaded by these degenerates!"
Velik sighed.
"How many years has it been?"
"The bloodlines we left behind are thinning; their strength is weaker than ever!"
Hearing this, Osiris became even more annoyed.
"Once I drive these fallen ones out, I'll clean up these bloodline descendants! Thoroughly!"
Velik chuckled.
"Not so fast…"
Velik spread his wings and ascended.
In the half-ruined city below, countless dragon-blooded civilians immediately knelt, chanting words of praise.
"Great…" "Divine messenger…"
Though Velik cared little for these descendants, he enjoyed their humble attitude.
In the half-destroyed city, the citizens called his name with fervor rivaling prayers to angels.
"Their eyes see us as their hope!"
Velik glanced at the approaching demon armies, disdain on his face.
The assessment world's true power, its awakened mythic beings, had quietly risen—the counterattack had begun!
The Abyss brought despair, but the flames of hope had never been extinguished!
This was a battle where despair and hope coexisted.
Yet…
When two worlds collide, only one can survive.