"What happened? Why am I outside?"
"Where's the city?"
"Damn it, I just logged in and got kicked out — I didn't do anything!"
The players who had been teleported out of Stone Forest City stared blankly at the empty surroundings, confusion and bewilderment written all over their faces.
Stone Forest City had been the most prosperous city in the Bottomless Abyss. The towns built by other superpowers couldn't even compare, especially when it came to training — Stone Forest City's effects were nothing short of holy ground.
What's more, its recovery effects were incredibly powerful. Many teams attempting the Bottomless Abyss's third floor would make a beeline for Stone Forest City to rest and recuperate. Even superpower teams that had their own towns in the Abyss would come to recover, making Stone Forest City the undisputed number-one city in the Bottomless Abyss.
And now it was gone.
At that moment, it wasn't just the independent players who had been teleported out of Stone Forest City — the members of the Dark Night Empire's major powers were equally stunned. None of them had expected that Stone Forest City, which stood closest to the second floor of the Bottomless Abyss, had simply vanished.
"What on earth happened to Stone Forest City?"
"Teleporting all of us out before disappearing — it must have been transported somewhere else, right?"
"Teleported Stone Forest City away? Has Zero Wing lost its mind? Are they just going to give up all the incredible resources in the Bottomless Abyss?"
The representatives of the various major powers present had a rough idea of what had happened with Stone Forest City's disappearance, but the fact that it had been teleported away left them utterly baffled. They all reported the matter to their respective guilds at once.
In an instant, every major power operating in the Bottomless Abyss was shaken.
Not for any other reason than Stone Forest City's irreplaceable position in the Abyss. Every major power that wanted to make progress in the Bottomless Abyss needed Stone Forest City — without it, their advancement would lag far behind.
And Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, as one of Stone Forest City's shareholders, received the news just as quickly.
"Just what is Zero Wing trying to do? They moved Stone Forest City without so much as a word — don't they realize this is the critical moment for conquering the Bottomless Abyss?" Yuan Tiexin's expression turned dark as he read the newly arrived message.
Right now, numerous superpowers were frantically pushing through the Abyss's third floor. After all, the third floor was immensely tempting for the current superpowers — it could produce top-tier weapons, equipment, and sets for level ninety-five and above, and there was no shortage of Mana Crystals to be found. The Seven Luminaries Crystals could even be obtained in small quantities.
Such bountiful resources were rare even across the entirety of the Divine Realm.
And with the Planar World now open, the major powers within the Planar World and those on the Divine Realm continent were on extremely tense terms — an unimaginable war could break out at any moment. The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion had to make preparations of its own.
Now that Stone Forest City had left the Bottomless Abyss, the impact on the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion was far from trivial. Even the Guild Master had personally reached out to ask what was going on.
"Uncle Yuan, what do we do now?" Zi Qiong asked from the side.
She was just as concerned. Thanks to Stone Forest City's training environment, she had made considerable progress over this period — she was now only a single step away from mastering her Domain.
"There's nothing we can do. All we can do now is go find Black Flame!" Yuan Tiexin said with a helpless sigh.
Although the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion held some shares in Stone Forest City, Zero Wing possessed absolute controlling ownership and administrative rights. While Zero Wing was nominally obligated to notify the shareholders of any decisions regarding Stone Forest City, in practice it didn't matter whether they did or not — the Pavilion couldn't do anything about it regardless.
As Yuan Tiexin and his party headed for White River City, the major powers throughout the Bottomless Abyss sprang into action, each scrambling to seize the prime piece of real estate that Stone Forest City had left behind.
But unlike the chaos and shock engulfing the other major powers, Liang Jing of Candlelight Trading Company was nursing a splitting headache.