Mingdu.
Across several districts, millions of people began another busy day. Like drops of blood circulating throughout the city, they supplied it with vitality and kept this enormous machine from grinding to a halt.
Torrential rain fell from the sky, and people holding umbrellas could be seen everywhere.
It was an ordinary day that attracted no one's attention.
Rumble!
A thunderclap shattered the calm.
Everyone thought it was just an ordinary roll of thunder. Yet less than twenty seconds after the sound faded, people walking in the streets suddenly noticed something strange.
The rain seemed to have stopped.
They lifted their umbrellas and looked up. Countless pairs of eyes filled with astonishment as the originally pitch-black clouds rapidly thinned and continuously flew toward the same direction at a speed visible to the naked eye. This allowed a faint halo to appear in the sky—the sunlight.
While everyone was still stunned,
inside the Sun Moon Imperial Palace,
a group of people erupted into chaos, cold sweat running down their backs as they stared at the scene appearing on the screen.
It was a gigantic empty hole formed by countless dark clouds, resembling the Eye of the Death God rising from the Abyss.
Most importantly, this Eye of the Death God-like empty hole was less than twenty kilometers from Mingdu.
"Quick! Report this to His Majesty immediately!"
Some of the Soul Engineers in the monitoring room panicked, while others remembered their duties and quickly sprang into action. An alarm was installed inside the room.
Three Level 7 Soul Engineers struck it one after another. In an instant, piercing alarm bells rang throughout the palace.
The palace, drenched in rain, seemed like a sleeping tiger that had awakened and opened its eyes, becoming solemn and imposing.
Before long, sounds of people breaking through