Everyone looked toward the Temple District, where flames already reached the sky and black smoke billowed.
Something there must have caught fire, because a sudden, earth-shattering explosion erupted! Its center seemed to be Low Mountain in the southern Temple District. The entire mountaintop was blown away, and an immense mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
A terrifying shock wave spread outward, extinguishing some of the fires! "Whoom... boom!" It flattened everything in the Temple District. A two-ton boulder flew out and slammed into a pyramid! Bobo, who had been frantically pounding Arona, was also thrown by the shock wave. Both men, along with an iron rod, flew more than ten meters and rolled across the ground.
The venue of the Pilgrimage Assembly collapsed under the impact as well. It had only been a temporary structure to begin with, and half of it was shaken down on the spot.
The clone soldiers on the Supreme Platform at the center of the venue staggered and fell. Huang Ji, however, fared better because he was higher up. He even rode the blast for over a hundred meters, arriving above the rebels.
The rebels fell like grain flattened by the wind, tumbling over one another in a chaotic wave.
Fortunately, by the time the shock wave reached them, it had lost most of its destructive power. The rebels soon got back up.
If even they were unharmed, the smaller units farther away were certainly fine.
In the Port District, countless loyalists were fighting street battles against scattered rebels.
Leading the loyalist forces was Adams. With a large group from the Arona Family, he had suppressed local uprisings and killed many members of the Onassis Family.
He gathered scattered troops as he went, until roughly three thousand people followed him. Evil Dragon, Coyote, and Lin