The "Holy Flame Arbiter," moored in near-Earth orbit, was like a "Sword of Damocles" hanging over all humanity, constantly warning the entire world—and certain forces harboring ulterior motives—not to try challenging the boundary drawn by the Fourth Wallfacer.
The Dongying incident was a perfect example.
The Celestial Emperor had plotted to betray humanity, while the island nation's people had been swept up by militarism. Their fate was naturally惨烈.
More than half of the twenty administrative districts had been reduced to ruins beneath the macrocannons' carpet bombing. Millions of civilians had been buried in the sea of flames, completely merging with those islands.
Even that had taken certain special factors into consideration. The "Holy Flame Arbiter" had carefully calculated its bombardment locations. Otherwise—with the abilities of those Cybertron Tech-Priests, there were ninety-nine ways to make the four islands of Dongying vanish from the world entirely. Ninety-nine!
Things like triggering a special zone prone to super-earthquakes, causing Mount Fuji to erupt, unleashing tsunamis, shifting the tectonic plates underground, and so on—there were simply too many methods.
After witnessing Alvin's foundations, America, the British Empire, and Gaul—the three nations that had originally opposed him most fiercely—were the first to publicly condemn Dongying's betrayal of humanity. At the same time, using extremely severe language, they expressed their resolve to stand opposed to the ETO and the Trisolaran Civilization to the bitter end.
Perhaps they were afraid of Alvin and deliberately exploiting the situation. At lightning speed, they arrested and executed a large number of members from every social class in their countries who were suspected of having contact with the ETO.
This sweeping "investigation" was not limited to those three nations. Like a storm, it rapidly swept across the entire world!
In Alvin's clash with the Sophon, he had gained an absolute upper hand,