Chapter 442: The Disappearing Behemoth Peak

"What?"

Denek was inexplicably shocked, swiftly turning his head to look at the skeleton that nearly covered the entire stone wall.

But before he could turn his head to see clearly, there was a loud muffled sound accompanied by a heavy breathing noise. The tunnel shook continuously, causing the ceiling and the stone walls on both sides to tremble and continuously shed debris.

All signs pointed to a ferocious beast awakening.

By the time Denek saw the skeleton embedded in the stone wall tremble, as the person in charge of the base, he was more clear-headed than the ordinary workers. Hearing the heavy breathing, he knew there must be something strange going on. Combined with the trembling of the skeleton, it was clear that they could not stay there any longer.

Even if it wasn't a strange occurrence, the sheer size of the skeleton suggested that any movement could trigger a chain reaction, with a tunnel collapse being a normal outcome.

"This place is not safe! Everyone run!" Denek shouted loudly, immediately turning around to wake the stunned workers.

"Get in the truck!"

"Ah, yes," responded the workers, awakened by Denek's shout.

Under Denek's lead, they hurried toward the pickup truck.

However, the noise in the tunnel grew louder and more intense in that short span of time.

Before Denek and the others could get into the truck, a terrifying roar suddenly erupted.

"Roar!"

In the tunnel, which acted like the bell of a horn due to its closed nature and directionality, the burst of energy was more concentrated along the tunnel, producing a massive shockwave.

Thus, the moment the roar exploded, it boomed like thunder, shaking the entire tunnel and creating a strong echo as if the whole space was trembling.

Following that, the sound wave quickly formed and spread rapidly along the inner walls of the tunnel. Wherever it went, the air was instantly compressed and released, causing intense vibrations and pressure.

The invisible force swept through every inch of the tunnel like a violent storm.

With such a disturbance, how could Denek and the others, who had just sat in the pickup truck, not be affected?

Firstly, the truck windows had already shattered due to the explosive sound, sending shards directly penetrating the people inside, causing blood to spray everywhere.

Those who were in better condition still had their minds buzzing, consciousness including sanity shattered by the blast, with only blood flowing from their ears and noses, their faces blank.

In an instant, everyone was unable to make any move.

"Cough!"

Denek, his face and body covered with shards of glass, slumped in the passenger seat, barely managing to open his eyes wide to look ahead.

The dropped high-beam flashlight just so happened to shine inside, revealing the dust inside that obscured the view, with rocks continuously falling with loud thuds.

With a loud bang, as all the boulders fell, Denek finally saw a giant hand moving at a high speed through the dust-filled tunnel, rushing out of the falling rocks towards them.

"What on earth is happening?"

Denek looked at this giant hand, and his last bit of consciousness formed this question.

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Boom!

The massive sound echoed through the skies.

Louder than all other sounds, it spread rapidly through the valley.

Whether it was the people in Mirta Town or those in Flom Town, or even the tourists and mountaineers present, everyone could hear this roaring sound.

Everyone instinctively looked towards the direction of the sound.

"Yuexuan, what's going on over there?"

In Mirta Town, experiencing the Snow Path, a group of three tourists from China, like the other tourists present, all stretched their necks to look in the direction of the sound.

Indeed, the sound was incredibly alarming, as if it was happening right beside them.

Not only the sound but even the ground was slightly trembling.

As tourists, they were all worried whether it was an earthquake or something else.

Alerted by her friend, Li Yuexuan instinctively looked in the direction her friend pointed.

She saw a cloud of dust rising into the sky far away, like a giant dragon soaring up, its imposing presence shocking. Importantly, the dust mixed with the white snow formed a dense grey-white cloud mass, continuously spreading and creating a sky-covering effect, making the scene even more spectacular.

Even from a distance, the scene was enough to make everyone experiencing the Snow Path feel that something major had happened there.

"Could it be a flash flood or an avalanche?" Chang Jiehua, one of the three, expressed her concern.

Among the trio, she was the shortest and had a face that seemed to still be in high school.

Li Yuexuan frowned and looked at the other tourists, who also had worried expressions and were discussing the rising dust cloud.

"With such a big disturbance, could we be affected?" asked Xiang Fangling, standing next to Chang Jiehua, subconsciously looking

 to Li Yuexuan.

Among the three, Li Yuexuan had always been the most reliable, always there in big moments because she had more experience than the other two.

"It's not an avalanche or flash flood," Li Yuexuan shook her head, speaking with certainty.

"The structure of those mountains and the snow layers can't cause such a huge disturbance."

Li Yuexuan paused, furrowing her brows as if pondering, then reassured her two friends.

"With such a big disturbance, and since it's happening in a scenic area, this matter will definitely be reported, so we don't need to worry too much."

Chang Jiehua breathed a sigh of relief: "That's right, you know this scenic area is one of Norway's sources of revenue, they will definitely take it seriously."

Li Yuexuan and Xiang Fangling nodded.

Meanwhile.

Led by York, a group of clergy was walking on a mountain path, but they all stopped and looked towards the rising dust cloud.

"What has happened?" Hannah looked towards the squinting priest and asked.

York shook his head; such a far distance was beyond his sensing range, unless he was high in the sky or there was some residual power he could tap into.

But seeing it from such a distance indicated that the disturbance was significant, and it could be a natural disaster, though it seemed to be on the scale of a major catastrophe.

York looked to the priest beside him, Sage.

As for Bonhardt, he had already taken over duties and remained at the Borgonwood Church, as each area had different managers, and Sage was in charge of the World Rift.

"Bishop York, that direction is roughly the middle section of the Flom Mountain Railway, between Flom Town and Mirta Town. As for what exactly happened, I'll investigate shortly."

"Mm."

York retracted his gaze from the distance and continued towards the mid-mountain direction. Whether it was a natural disaster or something else was not his focus; after all, if he was involved in everything, what would the Norwegian officials and the Norwegian diocese do?

Each event was reported step by step until it was resolved, just like every supernatural event: first reported by believers to the priests, then from priests to bishops.

So, by the time it was reported to him, it wasn't too late for him to handle it personally.

His primary task was still dealing with the World Rift, after all, the danger of the World Rift was global, not something minor disasters could compare to.

However, as York thought, the Norwegian officials had already taken over this case.

The widespread and intense disturbance had already caught the attention of the local residents, who quickly reported it to the Norwegian officials.

By the time York arrived at the mid-mountain flat, facing a giant cave, the Norwegian officials had already deployed to investigate the source of the disturbance.

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"Received a message, seismic and flood indications have appeared in the Flom Town area, originating from the Behemoth Peak mountain range."

"Permission granted to dispatch a special plane to investigate the Behemoth Peak mountain range."

Commands were issued one after another. With the mountain range being one of the sources of revenue and many foreign tourists involved, the Norwegian officials moved swiftly, fearing any impact and chain reactions.

Besides asking local town officials to urge tourists to return and stopping sightseeing trains and yachts as normal actions, Norwegian officials also dispatched experts to investigate.

At an air force base in Bergen, Norway's second-largest city.

Two fighter jets were already preparing for takeoff.

"Bird Two, we are ready for takeoff!"

"Bird One, preparing for takeoff!"

"Takeoff!"

With the roar of Bird One, Bird Two followed, flying towards the sky.

For the speed of a fighter jet, a few hundred kilometers was quickly covered.

"Headquarters, this is Bird One, approaching Behemoth Peak mountain range."

After notifying headquarters, the pilot of Bird One slightly controlled the jet to fly between the mountain ranges, but when he flew over and saw the reality in front of him, he was dumbfounded.

"My God!" The pilot's eyes widened in shock.

The area, originally a valley, was now completely filled with collapsed boulders.

The dust was still spreading.

The Behemoth Peak, which was originally towering and consisted of thirteen peaks connected together, had now vanished.

"What's going on, Bird One?"

The pilot's exclamation seemed to reach the headquarters.

Taking a deep breath, the pilot looked at the astonishing scene below, his voice trembling.

"Headquarters, I think I've found the source of the earthquake."

"What exactly happened?"

Listening to the voice from headquarters, the pilot looked at the dramatically altered landscape below and replied.

"The Behemoth Peak is gone." His voice still shook as he sent the captured images back to headquarters.

Norway was stunned.

The Behemoth Peak mountain range was among the more famous ranges, associated with legends of behemoths. This disappearance led even the Norwegian officials to start spec

ulating, but before anything else, they waited for the experts to send back their research.

However, this incident had already reached the hands of the Norwegian diocese.

The next day, all the news reached York.

It was noon.

York was standing on the flat of the mountain cave, watching Hannah and Alesha play skiing, his brows slightly furrowed as he thought about the previous day's research on the World Rift.

Before coming to the World Rift in the Kingdom of Norway, he had already activated particle form, using a particle's perspective to study the World Rift.

As previously guessed, the World Rift was equivalent to a huge wormhole. The reason it could exist for thousands of years was due to the energy particles in the wormhole channel, which interacted with each other, constantly colliding and releasing energy, maintaining the current state of the channel. Any change or addition of other particles would cause the energy released by these particles to strengthen.

So the detection equipment outside monitored changes in particles to detect energy fluctuations inside.

"With my current strength, it's a bit difficult," York frowned.

The above was his conclusion from the World Rift in the island nation. Coming here, he wanted to see if he could close the rift inserted in the real world, essentially closing the gateway and preventing foreign objects from affecting the real world.

If he could close it, he wouldn't need to travel to another universe.

But yesterday's results made him realize this was a difficult task.

Simply closing the gateway here couldn't make the World Rift disappear.

Because the World Rift wasn't just a single gateway here; there was another gateway, that in another universe.

"It's possible to forcibly close it, but it can only be maintained temporarily, not permanently, a typical case of treating the symptoms not the cure."

York felt a bit regretful; he had tried yesterday, but it was still broken by the continuously transmitted energy, unable to maintain for long.

This situation was telling him that to resolve the World Rift, he must close the two connecting gateways, otherwise, whether forcibly closing or sealing one end with other particles, it would always be broken through.

"Looks like I still need to go to the other end of the World Rift?" York sighed, his idea completely dashed.

Although each rift world involved one hundred usable attribute points, the cost-effectiveness of these hundred points was still too low, just like the World Rift in the island nation, which took him a long time to complete, accumulating more fixed points over time than the task required.

Just then, the commotion below the mountainside caught his attention.

York had a thought and looked over.

He saw several vehicles arriving, and a few clergy members got out and were talking to Sage. Then Sage took a document from these clergy members and hurried over towards him.

"What has happened?" York raised an eyebrow, recalling the dust cloud he saw yesterday that resembled a nuclear mushroom cloud.

As York had thought, Sage hurried over, stopped beside him, saluted, and handed over the document he was holding.

"Bishop York, this is a document from the city of Bergen, related to yesterday's disturbance."

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