Did Rudeus Cause the Mana Explosion? Fact-Checking the Teleport Incident Rumors
While cosmic entities debated the breach, the mortal population suffered unimaginable trauma. The explosion did not vaporize the inhabitants; it scattered them blindly across the continents through random spatial displacement. Peasants and high-ranking nobles landed indiscriminately inside monster nests on the Demon Continent, atop mountain ranges in the Holy Land of the Sword, or deep within the treacherous forests of the Great Forest.
The Boreas household in Roa collapsed overnight. Sauros Boreas Greyrat faced execution to appease the crown's demand for a scapegoat, while Philip and Hilda perished on the Demon Continent. Zenith Greyrat ended up fused inside a magical crystal in the depths of the Begaritt Continent's Teleport Labyrinth, losing her memories and cognitive autonomy. The demographic void left behind destabilized the Asura Kingdom's agricultural belt and sparked a decade of cutthroat succession warfare among the royal heirs.