Accompanied by the lilting sound of the conch, the originally clear sky of the "Boundless Heart Sea" slowly darkened.
Clouds gathered slowly, the sun hidden within them. The sky cracked open with a giant rift, filled with deep darkness, as if leading to another dimension.
Mysteriously, an ancient beast's low moan seemed to echo in the air, and along with that moan, a thick darkness, like pitch, slowly seeped out from the rift.
In an instant, that darkness "dripped" onto the earth! As the liquid dripped down, the space began to twist, forming a huge vortex.
In the next second, a man wearing a dark robe, embroidered with ancient runes, stepped out from it.
He appeared to be in his twenties, his complexion slightly dark, with faint fine lines at the corners of his eyes, adding an inexplicable sense of maturity beyond his age.
