The Last Two Players

The human world of Night Valley was indeed in a state of war. This was also mentioned in the information Shen Bingmiao had given Lin Yu.

And what this brought was not merely a decline in the society's general livelihood, but also...

The redundancy of the "violent institutions" and the excessive expansion of their power.

Within a single city, there were often three extraordinary organizations with the power to enforce the law existing at once: the Heresy Inquisition, which answered to the headquarters of the Tribunal; the City Defense Knight Order, which answered to the Empire and City Hall; and the churches, which governed themselves independently.

On top of that, there was the Adventurer's Guild, formed by adventurers who had no authority to enforce the law within the city but still possessed supernatural power and formidable force. Although every institution's power had expanded, once everyone had expanded, they instead reached a delicate balance.

Apart from the Heresy Inquisition, which had its own "Black Prison," when the City Defense Knight Order, the churches, or the Free Adventurers caught Dark Creatures, heretics, or other Human Transcenders who had committed crimes, they could not imprison or judge them on their own. They had to escort them to City Hall for processing.

So...

Apart from the Adventurer's Guild, squatting around City Hall was also a good choice.

The players who could escape were all at the Adventurer's Guild. The players who could not escape would eventually pass through City Hall.

It was precisely because of this that Huang had chosen City Hall.

And as it turned out, their choice had not been wrong.

Only...

They had been slightly too slow.

They were walking through Lilai City, and before they reached City Hall, they heard a violent explosion from afar.

A beam of light shot