Chapter 215 Echoes of Discord Resurface

The familiar distortion shimmered before them, depositing the team in a desolate wasteland. A sickly yellow sun cast an oppressive heat over the cracked, barren landscape. The air hung heavy with a sense of foreboding, a stark contrast to the vibrant world they had just left. Asa, her empathy reaching out cautiously, sensed a deep-seated discord resonating from the very fabric of this reality. It wasn't the chaotic maelstrom of emotions they had encountered before, but a more insidious kind of discord – a pervasive sense of despair, hopelessness, and a gnawing emptiness that threatened to consume all motivation. Denji, his usual bravado failing him for the fourth time, gripped the hilt of his chainsaw tighter. An unsettling silence hung in the air, broken only by the occasional moan of a skeletal figure that wandered aimlessly through the wasteland. A shiver ran down his spine, a primal fear unlike anything he had faced before. Aki, his analytical mind struggling to find a foot