"So, the key is still the mechanical fragments?"
"Or rather, the authority of the throne?"
Right now, a major event was quietly unfolding in Linyuan City: the Golden Cell Grand Duke's ascension ceremony was underway.
This was naturally a major event capable of affecting the global balance of power, yet the atmosphere was strangely tense, because this Grand Duke possessed an identity unfamiliar to everyone.
He came from Azure Harbor, a Tier 2 City on the Eastern Continent—a city that was obscure and had even been marked in red in the World Guardian Organization's internal records—
—which meant that the city had gone Out of Control and was extremely dangerous.
Normally, only cities occupied by the Mysterious Organization or those that had secretly seized authority would be treated this way.
What was more, the Grand Duke's ascension ceremony was tied to the issue of repairing Contract No. 02.
Yet in the face of something that concerned all the world's major races, the Golden Cell had offered not a single explanation. They were focused solely on elevating this young man to inherit the title.
Put severely, this meant that the Golden Cell was completely breaking away from this circle. As fellow members of the Twelve Races, the Old Marquises who held power in each family would surely be dissatisfied. They might even forcibly convene the World Council to pressure the Golden Cell.
Yet the Golden Cell had just suffered a great upheaval and was already a band of grieving soldiers. On top of that, members of the Morgan Family had been involved in this incident, and even the vampires of the Western Continent were implicated in murky ways. Forget pressuring the Golden Cell—those factions were already holding their anger in.
Over the past few days, even when the Morgan Family's Marchioness