Virtual World, America, Oval Office.
Inside the office stood only a massive round table and thirty-seven seats.
This was where America held its National Assembly.
Each seat represented a Ninth-Order Councilor.
Swish, swish, swish—
Virtual light surged, and powerful virtual projections soon appeared around the round table.
At the head of the table, countless rays of light gathered.
They condensed into a beautiful woman with golden hair, emerald eyes, delicate features, and a curvaceous figure.
She bore a seventy to eighty percent resemblance to Catherine, though her bearing was far more mature.
"Your Holiness the Pope."
Upon seeing the beautiful woman arrive, all the Ninth-Order Councilors in the office rose to their feet and bowed respectfully.
Megan Evelyn, Pope of the Holy See, possessed an Elemental Light Type SS-rank Metahuman Ability and was also America's sole Supreme Expert.
"Kane, what is the current situation in Sakura Country?" Evelyn's cool voice rang out.
Seated to her left, Kane, the Holy See's chief Archpriest and a Ninth-Order Peak, hurriedly replied:
"Kitahara Sosuke, the Ninth-Order Middle-Level Martial Saint of Sakura Country, and his son, Kitahara Takuma, have both been killed by Xu Jingming.
The two Ninth-Order members we had stationed there were also driven away.
Judging from the intelligence we have received and Xu Jingming's actions, he truly intends to claim Sakura Country for himself."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Ninth-Order Councilors seated around the table erupted.
"Shit! Who does Xu Jingming think he is? How dare he occupy one of our subordinate states?"
"Revenge! We must take revenge and make him pay the price!"
"Without Sakura Country, the resources we receive every year will be greatly reduced!"
"..."
As one of Blue Star's six great powers—and even among the strongest two—when had they ever suffered such humiliation?
Not to mention