Editing Abyss of Darkness (section)

==History==
Abyss of Darkness was first introduced to the public on 13 January 2018, when Exen uploaded a layout showcase. He mentioned it would be buffed to Top 1 difficulty and nerfed for balancing.

Abyss of Darkness was hack-verified and released by Exen on 27 October 2018. Because the level was illegitimately verified and deemed too difficult for top players at the time, the community forgot about it for two years.

Two years after its release on 17 July 2020, a player named Dils thik began attempting to verify the level. On 20 July 2021, he crashed at 98%, marking the arguably worst fail in [[Geometry Dash|Geometry Dash's]] history at the time.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNv735bQfkU</ref> He once again died at 98% for the second time on 30 July 2021.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECjmmrgPZs8</ref> Around this time, Exen and CDMusic began a redecoration update of the level to ensure that it would be rate-worthy should Dils thik verify the level. However, if Dils thik verified the level before the update was complete, only the finished updated parts would be included, and the rest would be scrapped.

On 23 August 2021, Dils thik announced through a community post on his YouTube channel that he was dropping the level due to personal issues after around 200,000 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyxhuPzECbAdl8e8jB4AaABCQ</ref> The redecoration update was completed on 2 December 2021.

Afterwards, the verification of this level became a race between SpeedyMuffin, [[Xanii]], Cursed, [[Trick]], Yossarian and many more, similar to [[Tartarus|Tartarus']] verification. However, on 20 December 2021, Exen announced that the verification race had been cancelled and that he would upload the new version to the server to prevent it from leaking.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxNuVEm3nvbSkKEzKSDmuby_NiwCVG6rPA</ref> He then made Abyss of Darkness an open-verification, and the first victor of the level would be the official verifier.

Many players who attempted the level had lost interest in the first two months of the new year. Trick returned to Abyss of Darkness around the first week of March 2022. He made quick progress, getting a new best run of 93% by the end of the week. On 11 March 2022, Trick achieved a personal best of 95%. Around this time, Cursed returned to the level, quickly getting a run of 76%. On 26 March 2022, Cursed achieved a matching best of 95%, making the two tied for the level's (at the time) second-best achievement from 0%, behind Dils thik's 98%.<ref>https://twitter.com/GmdTrick/status/1502114318363631619</ref>

On 3 April 2022, Cursed verified Abyss of Darkness after 54,315 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJkpqcMMCY</ref> The level was eventually placed at #1 on the Demonlist on 13 June 2022.