A bustling city.
This was the most prosperous city of the human race, for in the central area sat an imperial city; this city was the capital of humanity in this world.
The ordinary commoners in the city still carried on amidst an endless stream of hawkers crying their wares, pedestrians weaving between various shops—a picture of peace and prosperity. Yet within the imperial city at the center of the city, a crowd of figures who once held the power of life and death over the people of the realm now wore expressions of listlessness and despair.
This was a society under an ancient background; transportation indeed lacked, and news was also delayed, but after all, as the imperial city and the uppermost class of the empire, they had indeed received intelligence reports from various localities.
Although they did not know what the destruction calamity light was, they knew that the population and cities in the localities had lost contact, and what was most terrifying was that everything in those places had been wiped clean.
"Good-for-nothings! Good-for-nothings!"
"For such a long time, have you still not found the cause?"
"So useless, what use do I have for you?"
The young emperor seated atop the golden dragon throne angrily scolded the ministers below.
The floor of the grand Golden Luan Hall was covered everywhere with a large number of flipped-through books, left in a messy state.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, we are seeing this kind of ability that instantly clears out the population and cities of a whole prefecture and region for the very first time!" an old minister said with a wry smile.
"Smack!"
The emperor angrily and fiercely slapped the armrest of the dragon throne. His anger at this moment was not caused by grief over the deaths and