"The ritual didn't just fail to separate the Abyss - it created permanent tears where the realms are still connected. That's what most of the forbidden zones are. Places where the Abyss and a few other realms are still slowly bleeding into our world."
My blood ran cold as the implications hit me. "Then this place..."
"Is being gradually consumed," Zephyr finished. "And if the Great Resonance Pillars ever fail completely, these tears will expand until there's nothing left of Alverria but another corner of the Abyss."
I gulped dryly, my throat suddenly parched. This felt like one of those scenarios where the heroes discover the world is secretly sitting on a ticking time bomb, and they're the only ones who can stop it. The thought made me grimace. And...
Is this a foreshadowing of some world-ending catastrophe?
If so, then great. I was really short on having one on my survival list.
But...
