Eve of the World War

The 'Dusk Dynasty Palace' was built atop a circular stone disk. The disk was like a millstone enlarged several thousand times, and several hundred stone pillars connected to its underside. It was these pillars, driven deep into the circular pit, that supported the 'Dusk Dynasty Palace' above.

No one knew how the 'Dusk Dynasty Palace' had been built. Not to mention this world's primitive level of construction—even with modern technology, building something like this would have been impossible. The circular pit below was simply too deep.

At three corners of the stone disk beneath the 'Dusk Dynasty Palace' were three five-meter-wide stone bridges. Crossing any one of them would lead to the 'Dusk Dynasty Palace'.

These three stone bridges were built in an absurdly dangerous way. There were no railings along their edges, only bare stone paths. If a battle broke out on one of them, the slightest carelessness would send someone tumbling off the bridge and into the malicious circular pit below.

Above the 'Dusk Dynasty Palace', some pieces of rubble slowly rotated, floating in defiance of gravity.

Su Xiao walked to one of the stone bridges. Dragon Slayer Flash appeared in his hand, and he slashed at the edge of the bridge.

Clang.

Small chunks of stone flew everywhere. The bridge was unexpectedly sturdy. After all, even steel could be cut apart by Su Xiao in a single slash.

Su Xiao pressed his hand against the bridge deck and sensed a powerful energy surging within it. The bridge itself was not particularly tough; rather, the energy inside it was protecting it. Destroying the bridge would be extremely difficult. Even if two Apollos were detonated there, they would at most melt part of it. Completely destroying it was impossible.

After discovering how unusually sturdy the bridge was, Su Xiao