The night was vast! Half the planet had donned its veil of darkness, but amid that boundless silence, the most brilliant golden splendor rose from the ground—
New York shone, and everything was clamoring at this moment!
On the streets of Manhattan, ordinary people gathered into protest marches; in the office districts, actuaries and securities teams worked overtime, calculating data.
Inside Hua Qi Building, the senior management of every relevant department pushed the final plan forward.
At the highest level of reality, the directors behind the capital contacted connections from all walks of life, and enormous resources began to mobilize!
On the Night Battle side, lower-ranked participants found suitable opponents in the city; at the teleportation points on both sides, figures who had long reached C-Rank rushed toward grander stages.
Across the major node battlefields, Night Seekers, gang leaders, and black-market shopkeepers... one powerful B-rank after another emerged.
At the center of the battlefield, all the Royal Court district chiefs battled adjutants and mechanical behemoths.
And finally, beyond the stage—
Zero Knights and Executive Officers restrained one another as the A-rank battlefield unfolded!
Like countless gears of varying sizes turning together, they converged to drive the magnificence of this final moment.
From top to bottom, from Night Battle to reality, countless people in every class were taking action over Golden Iris stock.
And above all those classes—
Fang Ran stood at the very top!
As Fies Erde's Chief Executive Officer, and with the strength of his side's only A-rank Upper Tier, this was unlike that adventure in Europe, where powerful figures had supported them from above.
This time, he himself was that sort of figure, leading tonight's war.
Finalizing the plan, opening teleportation routes, stirring public opinion to drive stock prices upward with a rain of money, participant figures rising