As the awakeners' strength continued to grow across the continent, the number of lingering souls in the Undead Lands was steadily diminishing.
Large numbers of awakeners had already moved on to the abyss, tirelessly grinding monsters there in pursuit of greater power.
Many of them had no idea that, in the time they'd been buried in endless monster hunts, the outside world had undergone earthshaking changes.
For example, the arrival of the Angel of Gold and Silver race—a world-shaking event—had gone completely unnoticed by a great many awakeners.
By the time they learned of it, Daniel had already stormed the Divine Realm itself and slain the Emperor of Angels.
As for the appearance of multiple demigods on the continent, the fact that the Divine Realm had been taken over by humankind, or even the sudden manifestation of the Tower of Reshaping—these were things they were even less aware of.
Yet all of this had unfolded in barely an hour or two.