Chapter 223

“Our earliest estimate is that in the year 3728 BCSH, Before Central System Hub, the Mana levels of Vinestra may have been a steady trickle, just enough to make life on the planet abundant. However, this was when the first Egresses began appearing, throwing an already chaotic world gripped by war into utter pandemonium as the Ambient Mana levels spiked heavily.”

“It was this spike, later dubbed the Mana Burst, that caused the planet core to undergo unheard of changes. The planet rumbled and shook as if in a never-ending quake for years. Water levels rose, volcanos erupted, and the tectonic plates shifted so drastically that the formerly separated landmasses collided and fused into new continents. All the while, the beings from many races adapted and continued their brutal battles.”

“With the emergence of the first Egresses, The Gods directed their people to dive in and grow stronger by completing the challenges those dungeons gave. Inside the Egresses was like a completely different world, one free of the natural disasters everyone had become accustomed to. But what was at one time viewed as a sanctum was eventually found to be even more devastatingly dangerous than any natural disaster.”

At his mention of danger, the image of the planet warped and was replaced by a simulated high-level Egress. An an