The first to feel this extraordinary power were the roughly four hundred thousand people around Memorial Square.
Wrapped in that magnificent, miraculous gray mist, they could clearly feel the great Profound Emperor bestowing his power upon their bodies through the mist.
Their bodies, left withered and numb by days of despair, once again brimmed with surging vitality and indescribable strength.
Their stomachs, ravenous from a lack of food, no longer felt any hunger.
Their previously muddled minds now filled with excitement and hope.
Everyone could clearly feel themselves rapidly entering an entirely new stage of existence.
Whoosh!
Soon, the ordinary citizens who had felt their bodies change saw soldiers in the distance leap into the air, effortlessly jumping five meters high.
Their powerful bodies then landed easily on the nearby ruins.
Their large steel hands, now fully evolved, worked with their completely steel muscles to plunge effortlessly into the concrete blocks.
The whole process looked as easy as an ordinary person pushing a hand into bread.
Crunch!
The harsh sound of large steel hands crushing concrete blocks echoed through the mist.
These sights and actions instantly ignited the flames of hope in everyone around them.
The next second, these formerly feeble refugees became superhuman in the truest sense, one after another.
They jumped and ran freely.
At that moment, they resembled countless fleas gathered on some giant's skin.
Their constant running and jumping naturally led to constant collisions and friction.
Amid peals of metallic crashing, the citizens knocked or trampled down discovered, to their surprise, that their bodies had suffered no damage.
Even when excessive impacts dented parts of their bodies, those dents rapidly healed at a visible rate under the mist's nourishment.
A reporter's face twisted with fanaticism. "By the great Profound Emperor! What greatness! What mercy!"
Another dying