Orange and golden lightning cracked up in the sky of the realm in which the Hellinger Castle resided - the dark colors of the sky gradually lightened up, and into a color of pale gray with some hint of iridescence. And when one looked closely and paid attention while the lighting came from the right angle, they could see that there were faint symbols and words in the distant sky.

The horizon beyond the circumference of the land around the castle slowly shrunk as the beam of orange and golden energy continued blasting from the portal and into the crater on the ground. This was also because of the beam of energy, or, because of one of the additional functions built into the array that was unleashing it - the realm was shrinking because it was being “squeezed” - the space inside was being condensed, along with the energy fields inside. The purpose for this additional functionality was quite simple, based on Jianmen’s knowledge he gained in the past world and his observation of the basic order of this world: when a realm, which was essentially a small fragment or bubble of space, was condensed, the energy field inside, as well as the order and karmic chains inside became temporarily densified as well, which could take thousands of years for the energy fields and order of the world to get back to normal. And with the energy fields and the order of the world and karmic chains condensed, the movements, powers and abilities of the Defilers would be suppressed and even restrained.

Another “side purpose” of the array releasing the energy beam and the energy beam itself, was to mend the “cracks” around the tear in the fabric of the world itself, so as to further suppress the power of the Defilers and disadvantage them when the actual fights broke out.

On the “outer layer” of this very realm, a thin membrane of energy was slowly crawling along the “surface” of the exterior and gradually covering it up. This energy membrane would serve as a blockage against external attempts at creating a portal into this realm, just like a portal restricting and disruption array, but from the outside of the realm, and with enough power to block the portal attempts from much more powerful entities.

Under the light released by the energy beam, and the remote sunlight passed into the realm, the now barren ground around the crater where the Hellinger Castle once was showed a small but very noticeable change in colors - if one lowered their body and took a close look at the ground, they would see small sprouts of grass of various colors, green, red, blue, purple and even completely black, crawling up from below the dirt and started covering the surface of the earth; in some slightly darker corners behind debris and rocks, moss and mushrooms the size of small buttons appeared as well.

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Another lightning shot across the sky, a piece of cloud formed from several streams of dense air with moisture spiraling around a common center, and then within minutes, the piece of cloud got dense enough to rain. Raindrops displaying different colors as they fell from the sky and hit the ground - some turned to water like normal raindrops would, some turned into small bumps of dirt and rock, some turned into sparks of electricity or fire, some turned into very tiny black holes, swallowing the surrounding dirt and sands around and then collapsed.

“Boom!” A mini volcano erupted from a distant corner, releasing iridescent vapor, translucent and shiny dust and shooting blue and green lava up at the sky which later turned into crystals in the air and fell down and scattered around the ground.

In the vast empty space and void outside of this realm, a long energy tentacle glowing in serene blue light extended at this realm, covering immeasurable distance in space in mere moments of time, which was already covered with the orange and golden energy membrane. It gently tapped the energy membrane, which rippled and pushed it back by a little like an elastic rubber ball.

Just by an extremely short moment of contact, a message from Jianmen was delivered to the tentacle, and the one who sent this very tentacle.

“Interesting.” Inside of the Creator Avatar’s temple, Xyn, the Judge and Truth Seeker Avatar and the Creator Avatar sat side by side on a crystal throne, slowly controlling their own realms and pushing them to merge together: “The origin of the disturbances seemed to be temporarily dealt with, by someone we know.”

“Who?” Dolores, who was easy transcribing and organizing the documents shared with her and Professor Atkinson, which were the rewards of fulfilling their contract, raised her head with messy under maintained hair from the table and asked.

“Is it Mr. Yu?” Professor Atkinson also looked up and asked, whose eyes were a bit bloodshot and his face showed clear signs of tiredness.

“Yes, it’s him.” The Creator and Truth Seeker Avatar said: “And he’s cashing in our end of our deal, and asked me to keep you safe.”

“Really? What did he say?” Dolores let out a bright smile, but then she frowned and asked: “What - what happened?”

“Yeah, why would we not be safe?” Professor Atkinson took a look at Dolores, then asked.

“It’s - it’s bad. It’s dangerous, even for me.” The Creator Avatar sighed: “But it’s a contract sworn with True Words, so I am going to honor it to the best of my extent. And just to inform you - you will not be able to leave this place, until the issue is resolved.”

“What is it? Can you tell us?”

“The Defilers are coming, and I will lead some of my forces into battle.” The Judge and Truth Seeker Avatar answered, strangely with a humanly solemn tone.