“W-What?” Ru Hiana stammered. ‘Did I hear her wrong?’ She frowned and asked, “What did you just say….?”

“…No.” Evelyn replied blankly, “The path to the next world…won’t open.” Until now, Evelyn had gone across several Astral Worlds and retrieved her allies. But rather than saving them, it would be more accurate to say that she had bought extra time for them since they couldn’t escape the Astral Worlds altogether. Of course, Evelyn expected the Abyss King to act at some point to undermine their progress. For example, they could arrive at a world that the Abyss King personally oversaw. Even though she had received the authority to move across the Astral Worlds, she knew it would be difficult to penetrate through a world that the Abyss King had personally established given that he possessed the same authority.

However, that time came earlier than she thought. According to her calculations, there should’ve still been the world with Balim left. Thus, she didn’t know how to interpret the current situation. Ru Hiana looked around nervously. As it had been with all the past worlds, Basilisk's world was also showing signs of disappearing.

Seeing the very world crumbling around her, Ru Hiana hurriedly asked, “What can we do now?”

No one answered. Ru Hiana grew even more anxious and turned back to Ru Amuh, but he also seemed at a loss for what to do. In the first place,...