When the battle around the Human-Faced Forest was brought to a forced end by that devastating explosion, the brief peace felt almost false. Ash and the stench of blood still hung in the air, while the fallen forest and shattered earth bore witness to everything terrible that had happened there.
Su Bai and every "person" in the Opposition Faction knew full well-
The real war had only just begun.
Only when the flames of war spread beneath the Red Moon did Su Bai truly understand why, even as the Red Moon Society feared Wu Heng, Su Xuan, and the others, the Opposition Faction had always feared the Red Moon Society's existence as well.
Even though the Opposition Faction had swept away some of the Red Moon Society's high-ranking members with overwhelming force in the clash at the Human-Faced Forest, utterly destroying those supposedly terrifying figures amid mist and fire, that did not mean victory.
The Red Moon Society's roots had long since reached into every shadow of the Nightmare World. Its power permeated countless corners, merely remaining silent and unseen in ordinary times.
Now, with the destruction of the Laboratory in the Human-Faced Forest and the deaths of several of the Red Moon Society's leaders, this colossal entity had finally been forced to reveal itself.
A long war was on the verge of erupting, and every Strange Creature and human Player in the Opposition Faction Alliance had become a target for extermination.
It had become a war in which neither side had any way back.
The Red Moon Society tried to rebuild the Laboratory, but without the vast quantities of Merfolk samples and remains from the original Laboratory, restoring it to its former state was little more than a fantasy.
Years of work had been destroyed in an instant, as