The world's largest and most prosperous city, New Era City.
At the top-floor Council Hall of Harmony Fortress, the Mage Association's world headquarters.
Grand and imposing, majestic and luxurious, its standards surpassed even any Imperial Palace.
At this moment, only eighteen of the nineteen distinguished round-table seats were occupied. Aside from the white-haired old man seated at the head—the Mage Association's supreme president, honored as the Harmony Mage—the remaining seventeen were the rulers of their respective districts, both men and women.
Emperor He of Hengxuan District was absent. There was no need to explain why; everyone present knew perfectly well. It was also the reason this highest-level "127th Eighteen Empire Joint Conference" had been convened.
A thick stack of materials lay on each of their desks.
They included the beginning of the incident, an introduction to the Radiance Society, information on Land Scraping Armor, and the Challenge Letter the Radiance Society had issued not long ago.
They had already reviewed these materials before coming to the meeting. After briefly checking for omissions, none of them paid much more attention to the information.
They had come for only one purpose: how to solve the problem.
After the Royal Family of Hengxuan District had been wiped out overnight, these Emperors felt a sense of crisis.
That crisis did not stem from the Radiance Society itself, but from the Mage Association.
Even though the Royal Family of Hengxuan District had been annihilated in a single night, in the eyes of these Emperors, Emperor He of Hengxuan District had been too weak. He was simply unworthy of being called an Emperor alongside them.
To them, the Radiance Society was merely a slightly larger cockroach. Nothing to fear.
What worried them was the Mage Association's attitude.
Every Imperial Family knew that within the Mage Association,