At the same time, in an underground cave within the New Hope Assembly Site.
The river water flowing into the cave converged into a puddle in the ground, calm and without the slightest ripple, wisps of pale green mist drifted from the surface of the puddle, seemingly alive, slowly rising, and spreading through the soil to the New Hope Assembly Site—however, the New Hope Assembly Site had long been battered half to death by the first round of the Plague, so even if the toxic mist increased, it seemed to pose little problem...
And amidst this pervasive toxic mist, a white light point, imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only through Soul Perception, slowly condensed, grew, and expanded. Around the light point, numerous extinguished Soul Fires continuously merged into the light point like swallows returning to their nest.
Until the white light point expanded to a certain extent, a newborn will slowly awakened within the light point.
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