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One of the students hesitantly raised their hand and asked, "Sir, why should this era be known as the Era of Calamity? What calamity is going to come?"

The old man paused, nudged his spectacles, and looked at the student with a solemn expression. "The crisis is not something of the future; it is already upon us. And it is none other than the Abyss," he said, his voice heavy with foreboding.

The students exchanged uneasy glances, and one of them asked, "The Abyss?"