Pillar of Yita

The three staggered simultaneously and turned their heads—the dark depths of Fang Hong’s eyes reflected a silver gleam cutting through the night sky, like a sword light, which lingered for several seconds before fading away like mist.

In that direction stood the four-story building of the City Hall, with one-third of it having completely vanished.

Fang Hong slightly opened his mouth.

Without deploying the Dragon Knight, this might be the highest level of destructive power an Invoker can achieve—his Fire Giant looks extraordinarily beautiful, but compared to this straightforward sword strike, it falls far short.

This is the battle of kings.

He knows very well whose battlefield that is, and only now does he understand why Ye Hua wanted him, Hilveld, and Sophie to leave—it turns out the Divine King from Ragnarok has arrived.

To be honest, due to Fenris’s history, he doesn’t reject the King of Warriors, but at this moment, Ragnarok and the Southern Region Alliance represent two different stances within the current China Competition Region.

Fang Hong sighed.

If given the chance, he really wants to witness this king’s battle with his own eyes. Unfortunately, he has already promised the Ranger King. And promises must be fulfilled, of course—

He hasn’t even clicked on the post in the community.

After experiencing many similar situations, Fang Hong has learned to be cautious. Amid the chaos, he discreetly opened the community beforehand, guarding against accidentally doing something excessive, so he only realized it after someone posted about it to the community.

This way, if any accident happens, he can at least detect and prevent it in time, avoiding further complications.

Due to this turmoil, it will inevitably enter the sights of the Super Competitive League and the military, and Fang Hong is well aware of this. Therefore, he has to be careful, guarding against further exposing his identity.

But at this moment, the community is quite bustling.

To be precise, it’s already in an uproar.

For the first time, Fang Hong saw a situation where the administrator’s mute function couldn’t keep up with the rate of posting, eliciting a sense of awe—the super moderators even activated filtering rules, yet the flood of posts continued to inundate the community’s front page.

And without exception, all were about the current combat.

Someone on the community actually already labeled it as the ’New Holy Covenant Mountain’ incident.

Videos, screenshots, and comments have started to circulate widely within the community. Though these posts often only last for a few minutes or even seconds, discussions surrounding the turmoil are becoming more frequent.

It’s creating a snowball effect.

Additionally, to evade post deletions, people began using fake titles—titles not matching content—but among various posts, most discussions on the main topic concern this incident once you click into them.

At 9:30, the Super Competitive League imposed a full mute across the board and cleared the layout.

But less than ten minutes later, a puzzling scene unfolded—

China Competition Region’s community began to reload, returning to a state from about a quarter of an hour ago.

As people were puzzled, news arrived that multiple administrators and two super moderators from the community went offline and couldn’t log in. Then rumors emerged that Stargate Port had intervened, with the military locking down community’s primary management rights.

This situation persisted for several minutes, before the community returned to normal.

Entering a complete mute state.

Yet, such circumstances have already fully triggered people’s speculation about the event. All sorts of rumors started spreading on other social software, threatening to spiral uncontrollably.

However, these matters have temporarily little to do with Fang Hong—at the moment the community closed, Fang Hong also shut down the system’s page. He exchanged glances with Sophie beside him, both having a vague idea of what was happening—

The turmoil in the Southern Region is merely the beginning.

But it gave Stargate Port an excuse to intervene.

Yet to what extent they can intervene is beyond the two of them to decide.

Fang Hong looked up; his thoughts are certainly no longer naive, as the interplay between the Super Competitive League and Stargate Port involves layers far beyond simple stories of punishing injustice which are only found in fairy tales.

Nevertheless, no matter how things unfold, it is a favorable message for them.

He took a gentle breath.

The three had now circled to the other side of the platform, and the Praetor, Duke, and Bishop were nowhere in sight; the Chairman of Song of Ash and the lady from Shadow Throne had also disappeared.

Fang Hong glanced in this direction, where earlier Enan Modkaiser should have left from. Even though he dispatched Clockwork Fairy promptly, he lost track of them amid the chaotic battlefield.

But he wasn’t overly anxious.

He wasn’t in a hurry to find them.

Because after calming down, Fang Hong realized that finding someone is indeed essential, but figuring out how to leave Dulun after finding them is actually the crucial issue.

The battle was now stuck in a stalemate, but the constantly arriving City Defense Force units and New Southern Alliance reinforcements are tipping the scales; once the situation falls under the Praetor’s control, the City Defense Force will surely seal the city, making leaving Dulun extremely difficult.