The Bloody Night had been declared over.
The massacre that had only just begun was forcibly halted after the dragons in the sky turned into motes of magical light and vanished one by one, as though they had never appeared at all.
All the Asmodeuses still hunting down the representative squads within the Ninth Artificial Sky Island were recalled afterward.
The wounded all fired signal flares, calling for help from the outside.
The dusk-colored barrier surrounding the Ninth Artificial Sky Island also vanished in an instant when the people of Special Operations Squad S128 destroyed the final device that had been planted with a Collapse Stone.
The Aerial Knight squads immediately abandoned the competition without hesitation. They took the wounded members of their respective teams, left the Ninth Artificial Sky Island, and accepted rescue from Vivel's people.
That night was destined to be sleepless.
It was not merely the Ninth Artificial Sky Island—even Vivel had been shaken to its core.
Everyone now knew that the Ninth Artificial Sky Island had been attacked by unknown outsiders, and that all the representative squads had nearly been slaughtered by unidentified monsters. The news sent shock waves through everyone in Vivel, and shook the members of the Floating City League even more.
To deal with the matter, Hardman, as the representative of the organizers of the Aerial Combat Martial Arts Festival and the acting pope, personally announced that the festival was temporarily suspended. He also sent in the security forces to investigate and rescue people on the Ninth Artificial Sky Island.
At the same time, regarding the cause and course of the incident, the Floating City League's councillors, led by Hardman, personally met with the Aerial Knights one by one, hoping to learn what had happened from them.
However, the matter ultimately came to