First blood

"This isn't good…"

The abyss' guide muttered, retreating a step from where he stood once he, too, sensed the now concentrated waves of mana radiating from all over the place.

"Stay as you are!"

Callane shouted.

'If I even allow one of them to move…'

From how they remained unsquashed by those explosions that continued to happen all over the place, them being in this exact spot was what the owner of this place designed for them.

Moving away, even if only because of a simple, primal fear…

How would it be any different from provoking the entity that owned this place?

And to see just how powerful that being was, one could just throw a glance in seemingly any random direction, only to see constant explosions going off, holding off the invasion of yet another horde of monsters.

Sure, the monsters now were noticeably stronger than the ones before, and by one hell of a massive margin to boot, but…