Across the Timeless City, the apocalyptic thunderclap reverberated like a raging storm, sweeping over everything.
But it was just the start because the next moment, an impossibly thick pillar of black smoke erupted from the top of the Timeless Tower like an upside-down abyss trying to swallow the sky.
Within seconds, it engulfed the city—not fire, not wind, not dust, but something else—dense, churning, and thermal.
It was an unstable magical phenomenon formed by the compression of atomic energy mixed with the thick elemental mana in the air. It blotted out any source of light, flooded the streets, and slithered into every crevice of the city like creeping ink.
Below the Timeless Tower, strange static voices were reverberating…
"Warning: Synchronization link to Timeless Tower Core… disrupted."
"Soul-signature synchronization interrupted."
"Quantum thread relay… failed."
