"———!!!"

A surge of powerful aura suddenly erupted, the chaotic energy rapidly spread throughout the Little Londo Ruins, even causing the damp ground to tremble.

What the hell is that noise!?

Tusi and his group changed their expressions, quickly trying to steady themselves amid the earthquake. Since the Sain Dungeon often experiences earthquakes, adventurers have almost developed an extraordinary sense of balance.

This tremor was more intense and lasted longer than usual, and the previously emerging aura seemed to materialize, with dark-colored gales bursting from an unknown center, strands of black wind rampaging through the ruins of Little Londo.

"This, this is!" Martin and his companions were trembling, he keenly sensed that the violent wind carried something familiar.

"The taste of the Abyss." Henry swallowed, while Jack beside him showed a look of mixed interest and fear, like a thief trying to steal while also worrying about being caught and punished by the homeowner.

The wind was saturated with the aura of the Abyss.

Everyone present had entered the Soul-sucking Ghost-themed Painting World and had directly encountered the Soul-sucking Ghosts. In operating the Ghosts' bodies, they naturally got a close feel of what the Abyss truly felt like.

Cold, chaotic, devoid of any life, a mere touch makes one shiver uncontrollably.

Just like the black wind that was blowing towards them at this moment.

"Rumble——" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

At that moment, something happened that made the earthquake even more intense.

"Get away, the wall is starting to collapse!"

With a shout from the Starfire Knight, the crowd, sensing danger, quickly ran away from the buildings. Just as they began to move, the great collapse began.

The wall that divided the Little Londo Ruins, initially serving as a main route, started to show dense cracks from the bottom. It couldn't withstand the continuous tremors, and finally, under everyone's watchful eyes, split and collapsed!

The fragments of the collapsing wall could each be seen as deadly meteors. Being hit by one might send you to meet Gwendolin right away. Tusi looked around, feeling there was no absolutely safe place to shield against the fragments.

Oh no, the temporary Magic Shield's strength seems insufficient for blocking this; a spell would need time for chanting to increase its strength, but there's no time now!

They could only treat it as a last-ditch effort, quickly deploying their Protective Shields designed specifically for physical attacks.

However, the expected onslaught of fragments never arrived; on the contrary, from the beginning, the collapsing wall wouldn't pose any threat to people's safety.

Because the fragments didn't wildly fly off, they seemed to be pulled by some gravitational force, falling downward below the wall, and at the moment of contact with the ground, they disappeared without a trace as if melting away.

"Huh?" The crowd expressed their surprise.

What just happened?

Someone took the risk to use a Flying Skill to ascend into the air, and only then, from the high-to-low perspective, saw the entirety of the Little Londo Ruins.

His mouth trembled, muttering,

"The Abyss has emerged..."

Beneath the wall splitting the Little Londo Ruins, a pure black bottomless "black hole" was continuously expanding.

Thick, black, viscous liquid, as if alive, surged and writhed within the "black hole," greedily swallowing each piece of the shattered wall. Under the pull of the black hole, the enormous wall kept collapsing deeper, while the black hole gained nourishment and expanded continuously.

The tens of meters high wall continued to sink, sink further, and eventually disappeared without a trace before everyone's eyes, only the swelling black hole was revealed at the center of the Little Londo Ruins.

Tusi tried to blink his dry eyes, but instead, the corners of his eyes kept twitching; he self-muttered with some lack of confidence:

"This isn't quite the way I imagined things would go..."

From the usual procedure of exploring the Sain Dungeon, shouldn't they have continued exploring the other half of the ruins after opening the gates and draining the water?

So what is happening now, how did a huge black hole just appear here, it looks like a place hiding incredibly powerful elites or even bosses!

"Hiss..." Martin took a sharp breath, Henry and Jack beside him performed the same action, staring unblinkingly at the black hole.

The purity of the Abyss aura emanating from it was terrifyingly high, when was the last time they felt such high purity from the Abyss?

Right, it was when they controlled the Soul-sucking Ghosts' bodies to find the King of Little Londo, pushing open the doors of the Royal Palace, the Abyss rushing in at them.

Exactly the same as the current black hole.

"Wait!"

Martin seemed to suddenly realize something, looked around at the environment, then thought of the insights he had in the Painting World, and belatedly discovered,

"This black hole seems to be exactly where the Royal Palace used to be!"

"Is it here?" Tusi expressed surprise.

They had tried to match the terrain of the Painting World's Little Londo to the Little Londo Ruins, but there were many mismatches, puzzling them a lot, and they didn't know why. Looking now, perhaps the Little Londo Ruins had undergone significant architectural changes.

"If this is where the Royal Palace was, then inside should be...."