Ronan hovered in the night sky, looking down over Xia City. The city lights formed patches of varying brightness across residential and commercial districts, the suburbs and the city center, almost frozen in place. Only the flowing headlights across twenty traffic layers threaded back and forth through those patches, carrying vibrant or somber vitality to places suitable or unsuitable.
Some headed toward revelry; others stepped into death.
Every twenty or thirty seconds, someone in this city died under natural or unnatural circumstances. Within the same span of time, often slightly more babies were born crying, signaling a fairly healthy social trend.
But such a "signal" only had meaning when placed on the scale of big data.
Under normal circumstances, no individual death or birth would affect this city, this planet, or this stretch of time-space.
But some people were different.
Why had the Martial Emperor been born in Xia City? It sounded absurd, yet it was a question worth treating with caution.
She was a suspected Veteran Great Lord who had used the "Rebirth Divine Artifact" to pass through the "Gate of Rebirth" and reincarnate in "Inner Earth"—that last point might be somewhat questionable, but the basic logic was like this. Following that logic, she should have reincarnated in the region nearest to the three "Gates of Rebirth."
Setting aside the special circumstances of the "Deep Blue World," on the Inner Earth side, E City, which highly corresponded to the "Gate of Rebirth (Existing)" in the "Mist Labyrinth" and could call upon the power of the "Balance of Truth," namely the "Rebirth Divine Artifact," at any time; or the area around Spring City, right beside the "Gate of Rebirth (Experiment)," would both have been far more reasonable places to welcome the Martial Emperor's birth than Xia City, thousands of kilometers