As the vanguard pushed forward, carrying supplies and confidence replenished at the winery transit station, their hopes were brought to a sudden, crushing halt at Stone Gate—a vital traffic bottleneck in Teyvat.
An impenetrable fog of Abyss miasma rolled and surged like a living creature, completely sealing the passage through Stone Gate. Visibility here was compressed to the extreme; the glow of the elemental lanterns was swallowed by the darkness less than ten meters away. Even more bizarrely, the needles of all directional elemental compasses spun at high speeds like frantic tops before dropping limply, failing entirely.
"Recon squad reporting! Visibility is under five meters! Elemental perception is completely offline! There is a high-intensity energy barrier ahead, nature unknown!" The scout's voice came through the Golden Grain Communication Network, laced with suppressed panic and bewilderment.
Chapter 174