Bzzzz—!!
A ghostly blue light flashed above the silver-white circular conference table.
A massive three-dimensional holographic projection suddenly lit up, hovering directly above the conference table.
Outside, everything had long since become a mess. Collapsed walls lay shattered across the ground, charred cracks crawled over the earth, and lingering waves of energy continuously exploded through the air.
The fading crimson glow stained the clouds red as daylight poured down from above, illuminating the silhouettes of several upright figures standing in the center of the blood-red battlefield.
They stood amid the wreckage covering the ground, smoke drifting with the wind and sweeping past the hems of their clothes.
It looked exactly like the victory screen for the winning side's MVPs.
One figure wore scarlet beast armor, its surface still stained with fresh blood.
A Black-Feather Cloak hung low, its feathers trembling softly in the wind.
A mummy wrapped head to toe in bandages revealed only a pair of cold eyes.
An elegant figure in a crimson tailcoat gently wiped the blood from the edge of his clothes.
These differently shaped figures now stood quietly behind the figure in the black-and-gold trench coat.
The coat billowed fiercely, its hem rolling wildly in the lingering gale of the battlefield. Mysterious black-and-gold patterns resembling tracks of time glinted with an icy sheen beneath the remnants of the setting sun.
Inside the laboratory, everyone's expressions changed drastically.
"Th-this... what is going on? All the test subjects have rebelled?!"
The director and the others stared at Tyrant and the rest standing silently behind Bai Ye, waves crashing through their hearts.
The test subjects they had painstakingly raised had actually become the other side's teammates!?
"What is that floating in the sky?!" someone cried in alarm, staring at the enormous Golden Dial suspended overhead.
"Why does this