Azerath Universe.
Sky City.
Ever since the war with the Dark Dimension ended, this place had entered a period of recovery and reorganization.
The Guardians who were passionate about research had all thrown their energy into studying the matter and energy plundered from the Dark Dimension.
To them, these materials and energies differed enormously in form and properties from those found in the normal universe. Whether used to enhance their own strength or forge weapons and equipment, they were excellent raw materials.
On the other side, the lost War Weapons and troops also needed to be revived and replenished.
For a time, everyone was busy at a frantic pace, and the usual lazy atmosphere vanished in an instant.
The Soul Furnace in particular was operating at full strength nearly twenty-four hours a day, all to digest the biological souls plundered from the Dark Dimension and convert them into a continuous supply of soul energy.
There was no helping it!
Even though these souls accounted for less than one-sixth of the Dark Dimension, the total number was simply too enormous.
As for the rest, all of it had been compressed within that Singularity.
Just as Allen was considering how to deal with the thing, several internet and social media trending reports personally delivered by Sakura interrupted his thoughts.
The front pages of every major news outlet prominently displayed photographs of Ross, the "Red Giant," along with the horrifying sight of corpses piled behind him.
The headlines were even more alarmist.
Fewer than one hundred and fifty people had died in total, perhaps not even as many as the civilians accidentally injured during a single large-scale bombing campaign by the US Army invading another country.
Yet under the sensational coverage of these capital-controlled media outlets, it seemed as though millions had died.