Chapter 444-1: Facing the Deity, the Gloomy Abyss (1)
[Not seeing the Beast of Disordered Knowledge appear, you understand that while the Gazing Ritual may be dangerous for other demons, it should not be that dangerous for you, who has the Servant of Knowledge supporting you from the shadows.]
[Even if there is some degree of danger, it should not be enough to doom you for all eternity. Otherwise, the Servant of Knowledge, who sees through all, would already have sent the Beast of Disordered Knowledge once more to correct your choice.]
[Having thought this through, you relax a little and, with a somewhat lighter mindset, follow the demon shaman and the many demon lords to the place where the ritual will be conducted…]
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[In front of you is a sheer cliff that bars any further advance. At your feet yawns a bottomless chasm: the abyss, dark and unfathomable.]
[The cold wind that howls up from the bottom of the Abyss sounds like the shrieks of fiends and monsters, making you sway unsteadily at the edge. It feels as if a single careless step will send you plummeting down, lost forever in eternal darkness.]
[You try to lean forward and peer down at the legendary deepest level of the Abyss, but aside from endless murky blackness, there is nothing at all.]
[Staring into the bottom of the Abyss and facing that limitless darkness from up close makes a bone-deep terror rise from the very depths of your heart.]
[Reason tells you that you absolutely must not take another step forward. Otherwise what awaits you will be a crushed body and an eternity from which there is no return…]