It was as if an invisible whip had lashed the earth.

From the place where the sharp tip of the flagpole touched down, tens of thousands of cracks abruptly spread outward. In that moment of contact, invisible force poured into the ground, raging through it like an unstoppable flood.

High above, beneath the crimson burning star that covered the sky, countless strange fissures appeared, unable to withstand the power being gathered within this reenactment of recorded events. Calamity power converged into a single strike, causing the enormous thing hidden deep beneath the Ninefold Earth to tremble frantically, shrieking and wailing. Massive amounts of foul-smelling blood sprayed out from the cracks in the ground, along with chunks of torn flesh.

It was on its last breath.

The soil churned, as though some soft-bodied creature was writhing in terror beneath, trying to flee. Yet in the end, it couldn’t suppress the power spreading through its body. It had barely crawled out onto the surface before it exploded into a cloud of blood.

With the monster’s death, the illusion...