"This is bad!"
"Protect His Majesty! Quickly, protect His Majesty!"
"Fetch Hall Master Kong! Fetch the imperial physicians!"
"Don't panic! Don't panic! Seal all exits!"
The commander of the Sun Moon Empire's Imperial Guard immediately suppressed the panicked guards and issued a series of effective orders.
As he gave those orders, explosions began erupting one after another outside the imperial palace, at the entrances to major important buildings in Radiant City that had only recently been rebuilt, such as Bright Virtue Hall and the Radiant City Auction House.
For a time, the entirety of Radiant City fell into considerable turmoil.
It was worth noting, however, that the explosions at the entrances of those important buildings caused relatively few casualties. Most of the damage was inflicted upon the buildings themselves, though the panic they caused was immense.
Inside the imperial palace, within the main hall.
At the instant of the explosion, the Imperial Guard commander charged into the hall under the protection of a Defensive Soul Tool. The flames raged fiercely, and fires burned everywhere within the hall. The blaze seemed on the verge of swallowing the entire building!
Seeing this, the Imperial Guard commander, as a Rank 9 Soul Master, naturally recognized what it was.
A burning Soul Tool bomb of at least Rank 8!
"Damn it! How could it be this thing? We clearly inspected him just now! How did he bring this inside?"
One had to know that the higher the rank of a Fixed Soul Cannonball—or rather, a fixed bomb—the more powerful the aura it emitted!
Generally speaking, the auras emitted by Rank 8 and Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs would severely interfere with the use of Storage Soul Tools. They could not be placed directly into a Storage Soul Tool and had to be isolated from