Who Does the Monster Speak Of
As dimensional storms descended, Earth began to surge with countless secret realms: open secret realms, restricted secret realms, floating continents that exist permanently, planetary interiors in the
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Midsummer, night.
A sudden, violent storm had plunged the entire city of Jiutouniao into an apocalyptic gloom.
The tributaries of the Three Rivers converged here, in the heart of nine provinces, merging into the Long River. Towering waves crashed furiously against the head of the delta, muddy waters surging backward into the city. The meager defenses along the riverbank were instantly destroyed, countless cars submerged, their alarms wailing in despair.
Over the city, a canopy of dense clouds pressed down, lightning webs crisscrossed the sky, and a boundless curtain of rain—laced with scattered hail—poured mercilessly. In a single night, the temperature plummeted suddenly back to winter. Yet, this atrocious weather did nothing to dampen the fervor inside the Jiutouniao branch of the Xuanyuan Military Academy on Luojia Mountain, where the graduation trial mobilization for officers was in full swing.
The Xuanyuan Military Academy was a special institution established to prepare for the upcoming "Wall and City" mega-project, training officers to deal with all manner of warfare and emergencies that would arise.
The program lasted four years.
As a privileged academy founded by imperial edict from His Majesty the "Emperor Xuanyuan," not a single ordinary person was admitted to the first cohort; even the least gifted among them possessed a twenty-seven-star potential.
After three and a half years of rigorous study and cultivation, today marked the official countdown to their departure.
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