One day later.
Starfall World, New Cassini.
Wei Shan hovered high in the sky, looking down at the dilapidated city below.
This city was one of the more densely populated areas he had found in his exploration of the Minor World so far.
But the entire city had been built upon ruins.
The reason was not difficult to understand.
While studying information about Starfall World, he had learned that this city had once suffered an invasion by an outside force.
Afterward, the Virtual Runes Legion, which possessed the dimensional ascension rule, had driven the invaders back.
Wei Shan dove toward the city below, deciding to make it his first test target.
Night shrouded the city.
The End Dharma Race's invasion half a year earlier had reduced New Cassini to ruins.
The entire city lay beneath a pall of despair.
Everyone had thought this catastrophic invasion would utterly destroy the civilization they had created.
They had never expected deliverance to descend from the heavens. An unknown force had suddenly appeared and driven the alien force they considered invincible out of their home.
But the wounds torn open by the invasion still spread through the fabric of the city.
The energy pipelines that had once connected east and west had now become natural barriers dividing the city's districts.
Half of the city dome used to defend against external enemies still remained over the northern districts, where the damage was not particularly severe. The southern districts, however, had been reduced entirely to ruins and slums, with gangs breeding like feral dogs among the shattered walls.
The once smoothly functioning aerial transport network had also been completely paralyzed.
Countless civilian aircraft lay piled into metal mountains throughout the city.
The demise of the rule of law had far more lasting consequences than the