A flash of excitement—something Ethan had never felt before—cut through his eyes.
Resources like this. Expansion at this speed.
For the first time, he could actually taste it: the possibility of controlling the world.
But—
right when everyone was drowning in the rush of getting stronger, something went wrong.
"THUD!"
A muffled, bone-deep impact came from far below.
Then the rumbling started—one after another, rolling without end.
The ground began to shake.
Cracks spidered across the rock along the tunnel's edge. The previously steady flow of energy turned chaotic. Even the Dark Abyss aura in the air snapped into a frenzy, violent and irritable.
Ethan's head jerked up.
His instincts screamed a warning the instant it started.
The next second—
the earth exploded.
A massive figure blasted out from the deep earth veins, forcing his way up through stone and soil.
