Similar scenes were playing out almost simultaneously above a dozen other passes on Blue Star, each housing a large-scale Stargate that, in theory, should have been guarded by a top-tier Marquis.
The powerful leaders of the Shadow Organization, coordinating with the Demon Race's teleportation plan, precisely tied down and even intercepted some of the Human Race's top combatants, creating a precious window of escape for the infiltrating Demon Kings.
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Changning City, Stargate Fortress.
Fireworks were still sporadically blooming in the city district, and the sounds of celebration could be faintly heard.
Inside the fortress, however, the atmosphere was as heavy as iron.
Reports flooded the communication network like an avalanche of snowflakes: urgent pleas for help, encounters with powerful enemies, and discoveries of infiltrating Demon Kings, all painting a grim picture of Blue Star engulfed in the flames of war.
