As we left the beautiful Orchid Lake in a hurry, I had a feeling that we would be stuck in this premeditated ploy for a considerable time to come. The Nation War had just begun, and already Vanished God City had succumbed. The enemy had already surrounded Wind City, and soon Sky City would come under threat as well. A suffocating feeling crept into my heart. Unlike all the previous Nation Wars, this one wasn’t something a player or a single organization could turn around at all.

On the bus, I connected to the internet and searched for the details of Vanished God City’s downfall—

Vanished God City: Cyan Earth City’s Breeze and Rain, Shallow Sunlight and more completed an SSS Rank quest [The Devil’s Scar] and restored the soul of one of the Nine Sovereigns of Purgatory, Coldblade the Infinity Storm. As a result, the Purgatory Sovereign became considerably more powerful than before, and all the Night Creatures in Bloody Shield Domain entered a state of berserk. Led by Coldblade himself, the undead legion was able to break through the encirclement set up by Princess Karinshan and invade into Vanished God City. Not only that, they destroyed the heavy defenses set up by the seven great armies of Vanished God...