That man didn’t see it coming, nor did any of his comrades. They were forced to keep their attention only on the Phoenixes they were individually fighting because they knew what kind of consequences would befall them if they took their eyes off the enemy.
But the six Elders had set it up that way on purpose.
Just as Feng Siyu did, her five comrades raised their hands over their heads and summoned the qi of the world. The entire barrier dome was filled with massive sweeping waves of flame, within which only six dark qi barriers could be vaguely seen.
Only, the coagulation of fire was not an attack. It was only the preparation.
[Heavenly Flame Torrent] came from Feng Siyu. Within just fractions of a second, five other techniques had been used.
[Heavenly Flame Stampede]
[Heavenly Flame Parade]
[Heavenly Flame Dance]
[Heavenly Flame Tsunami]
Once five of them had used their techniques, the Elder raised her hands and completed the chain.[Heavenly Flame Killing Array]
Under her control and the wills of her comrades, every single flame in the world that was within their range of control responded and flared.
VOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A massive roar erupted and boomed through the world. It was caused by a pure outpouring of fire that was far beyond its own limits.
Nobody could hear or see anything beyond the wall of light that looked like a sun devouring the world. The six Phoenix Elders, however, saw everything.
They watched as the dark qi barriers of their enemies shattered. They watched as those men and women screamed out in pain and tried to save their souls. They watched as the flames they controlled forced those same souls to be incinerated before they could escape.
The bodies of those six mysterious Immortals turned into husks before completely disappearing. For just a moment before their bodies were erased from the world, several small flashes were emitted from them.
Those flashes combined in the center point between them, forming a symbol vaguely visible through the flames.
A symbol…that was just as unrecognizable as everything else about the attackers.
Feng Siyu recognized those flashes when she saw them, but it was too late to decipher them. For a clue to appear at the very end like that…
It had to be planned by the other side, a taunting move to tell the Phoenixes that catching them wouldn’t be so easy.
One by one, six bodies were burned to ash and dropped to the ground. They had been killed together by the combined force of six Phoenixes that came out of nowhere.
It was a planned attack, but no words were spoken to coordinate it. These six Elders had been working together for long enough to easily understand each other’s movements and patterns.
They had varying degrees of injuries on their bodies, but they congregated at the deepest part of the crater the moment their enemies were dead.
Just because they won the battle didn’t mean their jobs were finished.
"Do you see what I am seeing?"
"We all see it, but it’s hard to acknowledge. Is it a product of our battle…?"
"You know it isn’t a product of our battle. We are not yet Gods, Chunxia. This is something they created intentionally."
Feng Siyu sighed as she looked between her sisters and then back at the same thing all of them were staring at.
What stood here before everything was decimated was a bustling city called Gavarne. In that city stood a complex of several large stone buildings that had been used by the mysterious force before they acted on their plans.
Naturally, none of that existed anymore. Any signs of their identities, their contacts with others, or anything else had been destroyed, leaving behind only this.
In the center of the crater, roughly one hundred kilometers below ground level, there existed only a single vestige of the enemy organization’s existence.
A small black spot in the air. A black spot that looked like a piece of cloth had been frozen in place before it could touch the ground. Find exclusive stories on empire
That pitch-black cloth looked anything but menacing. It had no aura whatsoever, therefore, despite its oddity, most who passed by it would completely ignore its presence.
But these Immortals would not be so careless.
They had been sensing the daunting, imperceptible energy of that blackness precisely because it had no aura. It was the single spot in the entire vicinity that was absent of anything, including qi and air.
The six Immortals couldn’t fool themselves into believing obvious lies.
"We are currently standing around a crack in the fabric of the world."
When Feng Siyu said their thoughts out loud, all of their faces darkened.
"Regardless, ignoring it is impossible. We must close this crack if we wish to stop the meteors falling from the Heavens."
A crack in the world, the backing of a Great Society, a hidden scheme with unknown purposes that linked to utter destruction…
The Immortals controlling the enemy force were gone, which meant the rest of their forces scattered throughout the world were child’s play to get rid of.
The meteor shower was a sort of "corrective mechanism" from the Heavens. By expelling such force into the world, it balanced the impact of the crack in the world.
That crack did nothing specifically because the Heavens were sending meteors down to the world.
If there was nothing to offset the world’s energy, if the crack in the world was allowed to spread as it desired, the entirety of Alfros would have been devoured. Not a single crumb would have been left behind.
’They expected the meteors.’
Perhaps they didn’t expect meteors exactly, but they expected the Heavens to respond to their actions.
"We do not know ’how’ they created this crack, nor do we understand why."
The one who spoke was the Elder who greeted Atlas, whose name was Feng Yixin.
"We have too little information. This crack will be healed naturally by the world in some years, but we cannot allow it to sit unattended until then. At least the six of us will be preoccupied for the next several months as we aid the world in sealing its fabric."
The Feng Clan had more Elders than just them, but having six of them unavailable for so long was dangerous.
"They have done too much in the span of a single day," Feng Yixin said.
"They infected us with corrupted qi, they opened this crack in the world, they slaughtered the masses, they locked us here, and we are not even aware of what else has happened while we have been preoccupied with battle."
It was far too successful of an attack, and the worst part of it all was the fact that there was no way for them to investigate the cause of the incident.
But, for the first time, it could be said about someone else.
They got lucky.
Because they weren’t the only ones concerned about the happenings in Alfros.
And a certain white-masked man who shared their desire to protect the world just so happened to have met with an organization that always had information they should’ve never had access to.
Quite convenient, wasn’t it?
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