The crimson burning star had appeared and descended in the blink of an eye.
Yet within that brief instant, far too many shocking, stupefying changes had taken place. Before anyone could react, the exploding sun wheel unleashed surging waves and blazing fire, violently expanding in every direction.
Even the vast Endless Sea churned beneath that terrifying impact.
The tides raged, and vast quantities of steam billowed into the sky, forming suffocatingly dense fog and ash-black clouds. Within the clouds, a burning, grotesque silhouette shone with searing light.
Illuminating everything.
The spreading hurricane swept outward in all directions. The horrific tremors cracked White City Fortress's walls with countless fissures, to say nothing of the expanding river of blood and the endless black tide.
Everything was brutally swept up, torn apart, burned into ash and dust by the terrifying waves as though the sky itself had collapsed, then mixed into the bloody rain falling from above.
"What was that?"
Behind observation mirrors across East Xia, America, the Russian Federation, Rome, countless independent border zones, and every lineage, every face reflected the dazzling brilliance blazing across the screens. They looked like pale curtains, utterly blank.
Even when replayed in the slowest possible motion, all they could see was the huge black shadow shrouded beneath the corona.
"The Lunar Legion's Heavy Mass Cannon?"
"Did some border zone use an Authority Relic without Unified Bureau approval?"
"Rome's Holy Mountain Plan?"
"Or did a fallen nation activate the Rope of Annihilation and throw an entire hell into the Present Realm?"
"It couldn't be that the Black Bird ignored the ban and forcibly 'rose Shang and descended,' could it?"
As countless chaotic thoughts rose and fell in the minds of the observers, the Destruction Factor warning in the system was swiftly replaced by fresh intelligence. At last,