In the 1.0 era, information spread more smoothly than before. Within half an hour of the battle ending, scattered reports had already begun appearing on the Fool Forum, though without any substantive evidence, most people were initially skeptical.
But as more and more people posted similar reports, the news finally became credible, and interest surged.
It was not until the early hours of the following morning, when a user speaking on behalf of China's official forces posted a thread titled "Statement on Yesterday's Elimination of the Illuminati Remnants," that the news was officially confirmed.
For a time, forums around the world erupted.
The Illuminati had actually been destroyed!
Moreover, according to the circumstances described in the post and the various scattered reports from earlier, the entire battle had ended within ten minutes, with the enemy completely annihilated and not a single person escaping!
The Illuminati had been a genuine second-tier organization, after all, and one of the stronger ones at that. With three high-level players among its members, it had actually been very close to meeting the standards of a first-tier force!
They were being called remnants this time, but anyone with eyes knew that these fugitives were the Illuminati's true main force, comprising at least 80 percent of its original strength.
More importantly, China's official forces had not deployed in full either. They had sent only four high-level players and a little over a hundred mid-level players. Strictly speaking, this force did not meet the standards of a first-tier organization either, and was at least in the same tier as the Illuminati remnants.
Yet despite this disparity in strength not being particularly great, they had wiped out the Illuminati without losing a single person. This could only show that strength on paper did not represent actual strength. Even organizations