「One day earlier.」
The southern front, less than 50 kilometers from Forged Fire Fortress.
Here, the sky was no longer the characteristic scorched yellow of the Molten Iron Mountain Range.
Drifting volcanic ash was stained by a nauseating, blackish-purple aura. The heavy clouds, like rotting viscera, pressed down from the sky.
On the ground, a black tide submerged everything.
It was a horde of hundreds of thousands of deeply mutated Magical Beasts.
They moved on all fours, their pupils crimson, and a black, highly acidic liquid drooled from the corners of their mouths, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake.
At the center of the Beast Tide was a gigantic demonic worm over a thousand meters long.
It resembled a centipede with over a thousand jointed legs, and each segment of its carapace was covered in wailing, tormented human faces.
A Morning Star Level Magical Beast—the Thousand-Faced Abyss Demon.
