Above the Mandate of Heaven
Chapter 948

Foreshadowing

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Bee Snake, Half Face, and Weideng died in an airship explosion.

Gray Powder and Flame Boa died from fragments of the Thunder Pool.

Tin Foil, Smoke, Shattered Cloud, Blessing, and Marigold died at the hands of sea calamity beasts.

Happy Family died in an airship explosion.

Rock Crusher was too heavy to surface and died to a calamity beast.

Yellow Boots, Cable Car, Paper Crane, Fruit Stem... Beetle—the eleven of them held out until the rescue team arrived, surviving by sheer luck and successfully joining Blessing Park. From then on, they turned over a new leaf and began anew.

KD401 Flight, an airship traveling from Ash Port to Tide City, carried a total of forty-seven passengers and six crew members.

These Chosen Ones, killers, assassins, wanted criminals, and mercenaries from North and South, Thousand Isles, Central Earth, and even the Empires had, due to heavy rain, flight delays, traffic accidents, discounts, or simply a momentary lapse of judgment, happened to board the same flight. They met with an accident caused by extreme weather and perished in the vast sea. A truly unfortunate outcome.

Along with them, more than fifty-one secret commissions from platforms such as Wild Bazaar were blown up, and four intermediaries were silenced as a result.

This horrific accident occupied headline positions across numerous West Sea media outlets for a full... ten minutes before it was replaced by news of the Empire's film queen cheating during her marriage.

No one cared.

Because the crashed airship had long exceeded its service life and had been poorly maintained, Federation Insurance refused to honor any claims after the investigation.

Afterward, the operating company went completely bankrupt. Its remaining assets were acquired by Ten Thousand Miles Finance, which proceeded to reorganize and merge it after acquiring four airlines, including those in Ash

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