Emerald Sky, dusk gradually fell.
Although the entire city had been attacked by monsters and no residents remained within it, the city was still operating. Scattered lights shone over the heavily damaged streets.
Inside a building that had collapsed halfway, the Blood Wolf Gang—a gang composed entirely of werewolves and ranked among the top fifty in the wilderness around Myriad Star City—had gathered more than thirty experts. Every wolfish face was filled with tension and fear.
"Can any of you tell me what is going on?" Dario, the Blood Wolf Gang's vice leader, nearly three meters tall and clad in A6 Battle Armor, glared furiously at his subordinates' report. "In less than half a day, how did the more than twenty squads searching this district just vanish? That was over two hundred Apprentice-level experts! They disappeared just like that, and nobody knows what happened?"
As a major gang ranked among the top fifty, the Blood Wolf Gang had many experts, but the deaths of more than two hundred Apprentice-level experts were an enormous loss.
It was equivalent to losing over a third of the gang's Apprentice-level experts. Such losses were even greater than an all-out war with another major gang.
And the Blood Wolf Gang did not even know what had happened. If word got out, the other wilderness gangs would laugh themselves to death.
"Vice Leader, I do know a little." A middle-aged werewolf with the strength of an Advanced Apprentice raised his hand and spoke nervously.
"Speak!" Dario turned to the werewolf, his gaze icy. "Who did this? I'll make them understand the price of provoking the Blood Wolf Gang!"
"Vice Leader, I only heard it from members of other gangs passing by." The middle-aged werewolf glanced around and lowered his voice. "Those gang members said that a