The Kalamus Empire had fallen apart. There was nothing surprising about that. Even the most ancient mortal kingdoms were far too fragile and vulnerable; without the earnest aid of Legendary professionals, an invasion by a group of Abyssal Demons was more than enough to shatter even the most prosperous nation in the blink of an eye. The raging fires and enormous chaos now consuming Benido City were merely the final convulsions of this empire, already a corpse. Such death-soaked, despairing, malice-ridden, slaughter-filled circumstances were nothing more than the prelude to a truly horrific disaster...
After all, barring surprises, this chaos limited to commoners could not last long. Before much time had passed, every noble and low-level professional remaining within the Kalamus Empire would inevitably discover in terror that no intelligent creature below Legendary Level could possibly break through the encirclement of those savage demons and escape the doomed nation. When that time came, the destructive power unleashed by a group of professionals driven completely mad by despair would not be comparable to that of a few farmers who only knew how to wield pitchforks and rakes.
Of course, chaos was chaos, and disaster was disaster. In theory, although the Kalamus Empire had completely collapsed and perished, the tens of billions of people it once possessed certainly would not all be killed or injured. After all, the Justice Pantheon had sent the Morningstar Priest "Radiant Purity" to take the lead in going through the motions and causing trouble only to drastically reduce the empire's population under the Mage Guild's control, thereby sabotaging Mestur's Mind Purification Solvent production line. They had no desire at all for the demons to draw too close to the towering Blazing Sun Magic Tower beside Mithril Royal City and drive that terrifying Blazing Sun-tier caster, His Excellency