Earth.
Manhattan, Earth United Government.
The place was dignified and majestic, its vegetation trimmed with meticulous neatness. The cultural atmosphere of many Earth nations was displayed here one by one. The masterful joint design made the Earth United Government's overall architecture unexpectedly harmonious and distinctive.
In the garden outside the Earth United Government Presidential Office, where peonies bloomed in full splendor, a black wind suddenly began to coil and sweep through the air. Misery, darkness, death, war, and other emotions filled with immense power gradually gathered into a black tornado, sending petals from the peony garden dancing through the air with it.
Bang—
The black tornado seemed about to solidify, then burst apart with a sudden soft sound. The colorful petals it had swept up scattered across the sky along with it.
A woman appeared where the black tornado had dispersed. She had a bewitching figure, her graceful body seeming to sway at every moment. Her fitted black combat suit accentuated every curve, while her face was darkly beautiful and her ink-black hair fell smoothly past her shoulders.
Colorful petals drifted down around her, making her dark figure seem all the more solitary and detached from the world.
"What beautiful destruction..." She extended a slender, flawless white finger and caught a peony that had miraculously escaped the black tornado's destruction. Holding it delicately, she brought it close to her nose, closed her eyes, and lightly inhaled the fragrance of the vivid flower. "How long has it been since I last tasted such rich fragrance and destruction?"
She opened her eyes, a dangerous glint flashing within her seemingly smiling gaze. In the next instant, the peony in her fingers, roots and all, withered directly. It lost every drop of moisture and turned to powder in her hand. A gentle breeze blew