C1973 The Hope of Despair

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

The sound echoed through the void, like the beating of a heart.

Each pulse quickened the heartbeat of everyone present.

The most chilling aspect was that the heartbeat sound made everyone feel an irresistible urge to prostrate themselves on the ground, as if it were the primordial heartbeat of the world.

Yet