A dazzling ball of light tore through the night. Before its radiance, the sturdy building was as fragile as paper. The searing white light expanded at an astonishing speed without a thunderous roar, silently swallowing everything in its path and reducing it to nothing in an instant.
The energy fluctuations in the air had grown so intense they could drive a person mad. All of East Rui City was stirred! Countless lights of different colors rose in succession from every corner of the city. Tens of thousands of Card Adepts ascended into the air beneath energy shields of various colors, staring in horror at the dazzling light in the distance. Even from more than ten kilometers away, they could see that blinding white ball without the slightest effort.
The tens of thousands of Card Adepts hovering in the air collectively fell silent, exchanging bewildered looks. The energy fluctuations rippling through the air weighed heavily on every one of them. That aura of destruction seemed capable of stirring the deepest tremors and fears in their hearts.
"Chief, th-that looks like the Taishu Family's territory..." a Card Adept from the Guard Bureau stammered.
"Mm." Rong Ming acknowledged him, his face as still as deep water, but the alarm and uncertainty in his eyes betrayed his unease. He hardly needed to think to know that an explosion of this scale was beyond an ordinary Card Adept. Given its location, his first thought was Chief Steward White, but remembering the wounds covering the man that day, he immediately ruled out that possibility.
With his lips tightly pressed together, Rong Ming's resolute face showed a trace of worry. As the number of powerful figures in East Rui City continued to rise, so would the sources of instability. The slightest misstep could send the situation spiraling