Kunlun, the headquarters of the High School Alliance, was built against the mountains.
The heads of nearly every department—the Technical Department, Coordination Department, Logistics Department, Grand Competition Committee, Star League Committee, Council, and more—had gathered in one great hall.
What was playing was footage of portal accidents sent from the major capitals under the Canglan Grand Federation.
More than seventy percent of the portals had malfunctioned at almost the exact same time. Even more bizarrely, large numbers of Abyssal Demons had attacked the portals. The cause of everything had actually originated at the headquarters of the High School Alliance.
Or rather, the problem had appeared in the teleportation network hub constructed by the High School Alliance.
The portals set up in the major capitals throughout the Federation were not independent. They were interconnected... Together, all the portals formed the teleportation network of the entire Outer Realm Battlefield.
Portals were man-made magical treasures... Their full name was sub-mother teleportation portals. The sub-portals were scattered everywhere, while the mother portal had always remained at the headquarters of the High School Alliance.
"Chairman, we've found the cause of the accident." The speaker was the head of the Technical Department. "Not long ago, someone infiltrated the area where the mother portal was located and performed a reverse operation on it. That caused nearly all the sub-portals to disable their Defense Systems at the same time."
"How could anyone infiltrate the mother-portal area? Are all of you in the Technical Department useless?" an elderly man roared furiously.
"Shouldn't you ask the Security Office why an outsider was able to enter headquarters?" The head of the Technical Department sneered. "We're technicians. Do you expect us to moonlight as gatekeepers, too?"
A burly man suddenly rose and said solemnly, "The accident at headquarters is indeed the responsibility