The next day, on the moon.
Eclipse City, the Darklands briefing.
Before the livestream even began, the number of visitors watching had already approached three billion.
As time passed, the audience continued to soar.
Internet users everywhere were curious about the briefing on whether two Darklands games existed.
Previously, the Eclipse Race had not held a press conference even when Darklands launched, yet now they wanted to proactively explain themselves over an online controversy.
This was completely unlike the Eclipse Race High Command's usual style.
One of the internet's joking names for the Eclipse Race was "Upper Realm Beings."
There were two reasons behind this nickname.
The first was that the Eclipse Race was the only race in the Earth Alliance that did not live on Earth. Members of every race in the Earth Alliance could look up and see the moon, where the Eclipse Race lived, so they jokingly called them Upper Realm Beings.
The second was the Eclipse Race's cold diplomatic stance.
Although they offered extensive foreign assistance programs every year, outside the projects arranged by the Star Network, the Eclipse Race ignored other races no matter how they sought help. There was rarely any room for negotiation, and their lofty attitude made them seem very much like Upper Realm Beings.
In fact, the Eclipse Race had always been the cornerstone of the Earth Alliance's stable operation.
It was both the Earth Alliance's leader and the imagined enemy that united each race internally.
Every race, including the Human Race, had very complicated feelings about the Eclipse Race.
This insurmountable lead met with resistance deep down among the various races, all of which took pride in their own histories.
An environment of absolute peace was also unfavorable for resolving internal racial problems.
Especially when internal conflicts became pronounced, these