The news that Star Academy and Bitter Solitude Temple had entered Luoyou City immediately put them in the headlines. Almost everyone in the Federation was following the affair. But what that interest meant to the people of the Five Great Districts was fundamentally different from what it meant to those in the Common District.
For the people of the Huahua District, this was merely a news event. Throughout their history, the Five Great Districts had scarcely ever faced the threat of war. They were the home turf of the Six Great Academies, and although the six constantly fought among themselves, they never allowed war to spill into the Huahua District.
This was a tradition, a deeply rooted tradition. Anyone who tried to cross that line would inevitably face a joint attack from the other five.
The prosperity and development of the Five Great Districts were inseparable from those centuries of protection.
But the people of the Common District felt something entirely different. War was so close to them that it seemed to be right before their eyes. Past experience told them that once war broke out, the battlefield would inevitably be in the Common District-the place where they lived.
To them, this was a disaster!
Many bitterly resented this inequality, yet had no power to change any of it.
The Common District had seven times the population of the Huahua District, but only a third of its total economic output. Eighty percent of the Federation's first-rate Card Adepts lived in the Huahua District. The vast majority of outstanding professionals in every industry lived there as well.
That was why people in the Huahua District always looked down on the Common District, even if they had once lived there themselves.
Yet the entry of the Medical Card Adept contingent into Luoyou