The melon-eating Xiaoyue, unable to contain her burning desire for gossip, excitedly embraced Long Niang, asking anxiously,
"Hey?! What happened next?! I didn't expect Hu Tao to be so proactive?!"
Long Niang frowned, looking at her empty hands. She didn't rush to continue the live broadcast but sighed,
"Peeking using domain power is so tiring, and I can't let the Master discover it. Xiaoyue, I'm hungry..."
Xiaoyue froze upon hearing this. Was she asking for more money at such a crucial moment?!
How could she have thought this dragon was as naive and cute as a hatchling?!
Impatient to get the gossip, and unable to block Chen Luo's perception, Xiaoyue let out an "aoo" of frustration and sprinted back to her room.
Her treasured snacks were unsalvageable! Xiaoyue, also a glutton, felt her heart bleeding.
But the moment Xiaoyue turned,
Chen Luo, on the balcony, and Long Niang, inside the house, both changed their expressions.
Chen Luo's voice echoed in the ears of everyone in the city:
"Everyone, do not look up until I say it's okay!! Something is coming!!"
Chen Luo casually sent a gentle white light, enveloping Hu Tao, into the house, where she landed directly beside Xiaoyue.
The next moment, amidst a clear dragon's roar,
A giant dragon, wings spread, suddenly flew out of the City Lord's mansion, directly piercing the protective shield in the sky and soaring upwards.
Upon its appearance, the dragon's size grew by the second.
The moment it broke through the town's protective shield, it transformed into a magnificent being as vast as a mountain range.
Its unsuppressed aura caused the protective shield below to press down and tremble.
On the two dragon horns of the giant dragon, a small figure of a youth stood.
Yet, the power emanating from this dragon-riding youth was no weaker than that of the magnificent dragon beneath him.
The next moment, two beams of light, one white and one gold, descended from above, instantly enveloping the entire Starfire City.
"Sixth Law! Light Seal Shield!"
"Second Law! Requiem Aria!"
The town's protective shield, which had been fluctuating due to the oppressive aura, immediately stabilized.
Two layers of magical shields, one white and one gold, established by Chen Luo, steadily enveloped the city.
Mysterious magical patterns slowly flowed across the light shields. The mutated and oppressive power naturally emanating from Chen Luo and the Ice Dragon was instantly purified upon contact with the shields.
The millions of people within the city, though completely unaware of what was happening, all lowered their heads.
No one doubted Chen Luo's words.
In the imperial capital, thousands of miles away, Zhuge Yun and others also received Chen Luo's mental message. For a moment, the thirty million people in the two cities of Great Yan fell into complete silence.
The Blue Star rotated silently in space.
The Moon, as its satellite, had been stained with an ominous bloody hue since the start of the Doomsday Game.
And after the world's ascension, the Blue Star, having increased its volume tenfold, was still a mere speck in the entire solar system.
Yet, this speck was a rare star in the sea of stars that had nurtured life and civilization.
On the eastern lands of this planet, thirty million people collectively lowered their heads, while only one youth, riding a dragon, looked up at the sky with an extremely solemn expression.
"Something is coming..."
An indescribable premonition had suddenly appeared in their minds.
This was not information seen or perceived, but rather a revelation that naturally arose in their minds at that moment.
Like panicked livestock before an earthquake, or ants migrating before heavy rain,
Chen Luo and Violet instantly understood that a certain existence was about to appear.
And on this planet, it wasn't just the one person and one dragon in Great Yan.
In the far eastern island nation, in the deep, distant seas, in the remote lands to the east and west, and in the strongholds of various great nations, gazes were turned towards the sky.
Tonight was a starless night.
In the sky, only a blood moon hung high, silently illuminating the earth.
"Master, I suddenly remembered something..."
Long Niang's voice echoed in Chen Luo's mind. Chen Luo didn't look down, replying mentally,
"What is it? Is it related to the premonition we just had?"
Long Niang's mental presence was tinged with a hint of unease:
"I've experienced the first act being delayed..."
"But I've never seen anyone step into the Domain level in the game world..."
"The enemies you're guarding against for the second act also come from the void..."
"So I was thinking, since the second act's arrival can be delayed..."
Chen Luo's pupils suddenly contracted. He understood the source of Long Niang's unease!
The Doomsday Game was not like the games operated by game companies in the old world, where everything could be digitized.
On the contrary, this game was built upon a real world.
The players in the game were real people, playing with their lives, and they had the right to decide their own actions.
Then, what about the enemies?
Those enemies that were blocked outside the world after the world's ascension!
Would they, like computer programs, calmly wait until the scheduled time was over?
Normally, they would, at least that was how Long Niang's previous experiences had been.
However, there was a variable here.
That variable was Chen Luo himself, who had triggered the world's ascension.
Long Niang could only exist in the game world of the first act, and in the first act, she had never seen a player reach the Domain level!
And reaching the Domain level had a prerequisite.
Engraving the Void!
The moment Chen Luo engraved himself into the void and opened up his domain, did the external enemies perceive the anomaly?
If they perceived Chen Luo, this rapidly improving anomaly, would they still obediently wait for the world arranged by the game?
At this moment, Long Niang's words were completely finished:
"Then... is there any power that can bring the second act forward?"
BOOM!!!!!!!!!
A sound like a giant glass shattering suddenly rang in everyone's ears.
Concurrently, an irrepressible sense of panic and suffocation surged into everyone's hearts.
It was like a fledgling bird being pushed out of its nest, exposed to the gaze of a predator.
Even Chen Luo felt a surge of instinctual fear at this moment.
Because, in his eyes, the sky had broken at this moment...
The starless night sky was already pitch black, but at this moment, a colorful rift appeared in the sky.
The rift was incredibly vast, traversing countless miles of space.
Within this rift, the vibrant colors seemed to flash and flow as if alive.
Even these lights seemed to have substance, beginning to flow into this world.
If it were a mortal, just a moment of gazing at the colors would send them into complete madness.
"Void..."
Chen Luo gritted his teeth and uttered the name of these colors...
This was the scene of the void he had witnessed with his Purgatory-level strength when he was resurrected.
But at this moment, without the protection of the system's power during his resurrection, the instant he glimpsed this layer of the void, a grotesque and maddening emotion began to violently assault his mind.
It wasn't just Chen Luo; all beings and objects on this land that reflected the void's radiance instantly began to mutate.
Chen Luo instinctively wanted to cast a skill to block the descent of this radiance.
But his movements suddenly froze.
The colors falling from the sky abruptly vanished.
The maddening emotions no longer affected Chen Luo, but his heart had completely plunged into an ice cellar.
The terrifying rift that tore the sky was now completely obscured by half of a colossal eye peeking through.
"Found... you..."