Although it was only 9 p.m. and the ceremony was scheduled to officially begin only at midnight, the citizens were by no means in a hurry. They all chatted animatedly while occasionally glancing at the giant magic screen before them for fear of missing something.
Most eyes, however, were more attentive to the sky above their heads.
In the last two hours, more than a hundred mutant beasts above level 100 arrived outside the walls of Hero City, and not long after they announced themselves, they were allowed to go in. This shocked many and all sorts of theories began to fly through the air.
One should know that Hero City could easily be considered the capital city of the entire Transcendent Empire as well as the most important base of operations. Allowing a huge number of high-level mutant beasts to enter such an important place despite the fact that the number of people allowed to be there was always extremely small left many people perplexed and confused.