A damp, bone-chilling wind howled in from the middle of the Pearl Ocean, carrying enormous amounts of moisture as it swept across Anduin Province, forming a cold front.
Fells City, more than sixty kilometers from Huaisha City.
The city stood beside Celine's largest Pearl Ocean naval base, White Eagle Base. The constant flow of personnel through White Eagle Naval Base had also indirectly driven Fells City's commercial economy.
It was 4:12 a.m.
On the sprawling pedestrian streets of the busiest commercial district, centered around the Red Ribbon Commercial Center Tower,
streams of traffic flowed without pause, like pale yellow ribbons of light.
People who had just left late-night spots like karaoke bars, pubs, and internet cafés yawned as usual, some excited and others exhausted, while waiting for rides by the roadside.
Several fashionably dressed young men staggered out of a pub, swaying drunkenly.
"I'm done. I really can't take any more. If I drink again, I'll puke blood!"
A young man with a silver earring bent over and clung to a small tree by the sidewalk. His face was pale, and he was panting heavily.
The two friends behind him yawned, reeking of alcohol. They looked at him with disdain.
"Weren't you acting all tough just now?"
"I can drink two cups for every one you have! What a lightweight!" another jeered, pointing at the young man by the tree.
"You two!" The young man with the silver earring turned around furiously, ready to curse them out.
BOOM!!!
Suddenly, a deafening roar came howling from far away.
He felt the ground jolt beneath his feet, and it was as if something had slammed into both his ears.
In the night sky right in front of him, a dazzling ball of fire shot upward, turning almost half the sky yellow-red.
BOOM!!