"Are we saved?"
Those standing stood, those fallen remained on the ground; upon hearing Colin's words, they all froze, the expressions of desperation on their faces turning bizarre—what the hell was he talking about?
Did you not see what happened when that palm struck down?
Boom...
Before anyone could speak, the distant ground began to vibrate once again as a surge of deep blue-black mist rolled in, like an earthquake-induced massive tsunami, swallowing everything in its path, unstoppable.
In a minute or two at most, this towering mist would engulf them all, digesting everything.
Even before it truly arrived, everyone could feel an overwhelming sensation of hunger bursting within them, rapidly losing their reason.
"Dang—Dang—Dang—"
A distant, heavy, age-old bell tolling sounded in everyone's ears.
An invisible and intangible presence quietly descended.
The intense hunger that maddened the mind in their guts quickly subsided...
