Chapter 355: The Last Conference

The world was in an uproar as Sun City was half destroyed because of the specter's attack. The city with most Emperor Class Heroes could not defend their city.

At the same time, the name of SES was widespread. Thanks to the Specter Extermination Squad the number of casualties lowered to the minimum. SES's timely appearance saved the city from the specter.

Dominic as the Emperor Class Hero - Rank 1 and also the Head Executive of the Hero League Sun City branch also had publicly and officially thanked the SES through the available media.

At the same time, he also showed his willingness to follow the Hero League Star City branch's transformation path. However, the proposals had not received an answer from the Hero League Star City branch.

Meanwhile, Dominic was standing in the center of a big pit. The pit was big but not too deep, about seven meters deep. He was standing there as he looked at the surroundings.

The temperature in the pit was higher, he could still feel a slightly hot air blow toward his face. His feet could also feel the still hot ground.

He still could not believe he was standing in the core region of Sun City. Yes, he was standing at the remnant of the battlefield that happened a week ago. In this place, the creature called Draconian was defeated by three people.

Even though he did not see the battle, he could tell how spectacular it was based on this remnant. He even saw the huge fire vortex that shot through to the sky. His breathing became slightly hurried from agitation.

The memories of the whole core region frozen were still fresh in his mind. On top of that, he also watched the recorded broadcast as well. The broadcast caught Sun Zhou Yi and Musashi Hirata fighting the old man.

He watched the battle from the start to the end. Absolute domination, especially Sun Zhou Yi's spatial sphere. His spines shivered when he saw the countless swords randomly flying here and there but the swords still ended up stabbing the old man from the direction he least expected.

He was imagining if he was in the old man's position, facing those two freaks, "Hah…" his lips formed a sour smile, "Two of them? I may not survive for even a minute facing one of them, let alone two…" Dominic muttered to himself while shaking his head.

Brrthh! Brrthh!

The smartwatch on his wrist vibrated, he looked down. A familiar name showed up. He picked the call and a man's face showed up on the screen, "Sir, the conference is about to start!" The man informed Dominic in a respectful tone.

Dominic nodded his head and closed the call. Afterward, he scanned the pit once again before he left.

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The huge floating castle was haunting the people of Star City. Especially for the people who stayed in the south area. Most of the people had evacuated while a few decided to stay.

Despite the information from the Hero League that the castle was not dangerous, the floating castle still caused great unrest to the people. It had been seven days since the castle's appearance but the public never saw Heero, the man they relied on appeared to calm the public.

Yes, after watching how SES handled the specter on the Sun City battle, people trusted Heero as SES was built under his reign. Now the people voiced their voices, asking Heero to solve the floating castle in the sky.

The answer would come today as Heero held a conference. The first official conference since the battle of Sun City and the floating castle.

The Hero League HQ Lobby

The conference was held in the big lobby as a special platform was built for today's conference. The lobby was packed with the media, even the media from the other cities also came to cover the conference.

The cameras flashed as a man wearing a formal suit came up from backstage. The man was not alone, he was accompanied by two famous beauties, Kang Seo-Yeon and Bai Xin Yue.

Heero waved his hand to the media with a slight formed on his lips. He sat at the chair provided for him.

He sat down and faced the reporters, "Hello! I will pass with the pleasantries and get straight to the main point. I hold the conference to clear the confusion within our people. We have plenty of good news actually…" said Heero as he read the papers in his hand.

"First, the floating castle in the sky. It's not dangerous nor it will fall so you don't need to fret about the castle. We have been investigating the castle in the last seven days and it's safe!"

"Second, it's about our war against the specter! We won the war as you watched the broadcast. We have killed the three main leaders of the specter, we should be safe from them at least for a few years. SES will continue warring the remnant and we have secured twelve specter's hiding bases so far!"

Since God Horas' information was not known to the public, Heero decided not to share it with them. He was dead anyway. Telling the public about the God-like figure would only cause the public to panic.

"Third, we have received an official letter from two other main branches of the Hero League. We have agreed to unify the Hero League into one. One Hero League, one system! I announce the start of this big project today!"

As soon that was announced, the reporters gasped. No one expected this would come, at all.

"Ah, I forgot to mention this. The Regal Kingdom would also participate in this project as well!"

More exploding news that was very worth covering.

"Fourth, we will move the main base of the Hero League to the floating castle. We have prepared to make the floating castle as our command center!"

"Lastly…" Heero stood from the chair and bowed his head to the camera, "Today, I will announce my retirement as the President of the Hero League. I am very grateful for everyone who has supported me during the reformation,"

The reporters, all of them had their jaw dropped when they heard the last information. To be fair, Heero was at the peak of his career since his success in SES and the reformation. His retirement was the last the people wanted, even them as reporters did not want Heero to retire at this point.

While everyone was still in a daze, Heero raised his head and let out a chuckle, "I guess that's it for the conference,"

Just as he was about to turn around, a reporter snapped out and raised his hand, "Wait! Wait! Wait, President Xing!"

Heero looked to the reporter and smiled, "From what I know, there's no interview session for today's conference,"

Being reminded by Heero, the reporter who raised his hand to ask blanked for a moment. Before the start of the conference, he was confused as to why there was no interview session. Now he understood why.

"But I can answer one, only one question for you! The last present before we part our ways! Ask away!"

The man took a deep breath. There were so many questions in his head but he could only ask it once.

'What should I ask? Should I ask if there's someone who pressures him to retire? No…'

After struggling for a moment, he finally came up with one appropriate question, "Who's going to be the next president, may I know?"

Heero shook his head, "Unfortunately Mr. Reporter, you waste your chance. I don't know the answer. It's not me who is going to decide who will replace me, it's the executives or it may be you guys too!"

"Alright, that's all I have!" Heero then turned around, leaving the disappointed reporters.

Just like that, the conference was like a nuke, and Heero was the one who controlled the nuke. He dropped a nuke that caused a big uproar.

The media did not bother to cover humanity's win against the specter or the merge of the Hero League, but Heero's retirement. The news of the first President Hero League retired spread like a wildfire as the media gave their focus on that.

Various kinds of speculations spread out, from who was going to succeed in his position until the reason why Heero retired.

Three days later, the Hero League dropped another nuke as they held another conference with the new President. Bai Shuang'er, the youngest daughter of the Bai Family and also the Emperor Class Hero - Sun Zhou Yi's wife. No one expected a woman would be the one who succeeded in Heero's position.