- At the Private Beach -
"Xuan Kai!" Feng Mian called out and rushed over just as I teleported here with Zhao Xiuying. "Oh, thank god you're safe…"
I nodded. "For now. But the Midnight Syndicate has taken over Fragment yet refrained from destroying it completely. I'm not sure why they did this as opposed to the total destruction of Shenzhen, but… it's definitely nothing to be happy about."
Yu An Yan and the other girls walked up beside Feng Mian, then gave a firm nod.
"… Whatever it is they're planning, it's big. Otherwise, they wouldn't have laid dormant for so long only to emerge again now, and take the Magic Capital by storm like that."
"To think they became so powerful in the matter of a few years…" Ling Xin murmured. "Even my seniors in the Council couldn't hold a candle to them…"