The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

North American administrative regions.

The magnificent headquarters of the Night Owl Thieves.

Yi lay on the conference table, lifted half of the gold mask off his face, poured a Coke into his mouth, took a big gulp, then casually tossed the Coke bottle aside and laughed heartily.

"Wow! My God! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

At the head of the conference table sat a voluptuous woman, who also wore a gold mask, but the mask had the character "甲" (jia) on it.

She is the leader of the Night Owl Thieves.

"Indeed, the Abyss invasion came ahead of schedule. The major Glory Cities were caught completely off guard. They probably won't even have time to send supplies, and they are bound to fall."

C is sitting to A's right.

"When the world is in chaos, that's when we'll truly shine!"

B stood on the table, pointed outside, and shouted.

"Go steal! Everything we want!"

A slowly got up, walked to the French windows, and looked at the street where a shooting was taking place, but the passersby were very calm.

She opened her palm, holding a piece of white jade fragment inside.

"Ancestor, I will definitely collect all the ancient jade maps, restore your former glory, and fulfill your last wish..."

……

Antarctica.

In the icy, snowy world, penguins glide leisurely across the ice, then "plop," "plop," they leap into the sea.

The Antarctic continent also has leveling areas, dungeon areas, restricted areas, and even a "City of Glory".

There are no normal human cities.

After all, the harsh environment here is really unsuitable for human habitation.

Glory City in Antarctica appears from the outside to be a dilapidated city covered in ice and snow.

It is not one of the six global glory cities.

This Glory City is rather special; its functions are incomplete, so it can only be called a quasi-Glory City.

There are no reputation-gaining activities like arenas, city defense missions, or the Ten Clans Battlefield here.

However, star beasts will spawn in the surrounding area, and you can gain normal reputation by killing them.

Within this dilapidated city of Glory, there is also a reputation shop where you can exchange reputation for items.

In this extremely harsh climate, even professionals rarely venture here.

This dilapidated city of glory actually has a hidden side—it is the number one wanted criminal organization on the Blue Star Federation's global black list and the headquarters of the resistance army.

Inside a dilapidated mud-brick house in the city, six of the Twelve Heavenly Kings of the Resistance appeared after the global announcement of the Abyss invasion.

Red Bull, carrying a large cannon barrel, chuckled.

"Hey, I didn't expect you guys to all be here. When did Zero let you guys come back? Weren't Flower Snake and Purple Dragon the ones on duty in Antarctica this year?"

Yun Yang stood to the right of Chi Niu, his brows furrowed, holding a Bagua mirror in his hand, seemingly making some kind of metaphysical deduction.

There were four people in front of the two.

Three men and one woman, dressed in four different colored bodysuits, struck cringeworthy poses, back to back, each looking in a different direction.

They remained silent in the face of Red Ox's question, as if they were lost in thought.

Red Ox got tired of waiting and put the cannon down.

"I'm saying, aren't you tired? If not, aren't you cold? There's no one else here, who are you trying to impress with this pose?"

The four people finally moved.

The yellow-skinned woman wearing a blue bodysuit chuckled.

"Haha! Jin Hu, you moved! You lost, you're treating tonight."

A tall, muscular, buzz-cut white man wearing a gold bodysuit shrugged.

"Alright, my friend, Ms. Lanshu, but we're at headquarters now, so I'm afraid all we can offer you is snow mixed with ice."

A thin black man wearing a black bodysuit spoke.

"I think we should change our entrance routine; even Red Bull finds it unoriginal."

A white man in a pink bodysuit pulled out a blueprint and spoke to the three of them.

"Black Horse is right. Look, this is a set of moves I redesigned, inspired by a group of people from an old comic called the Ginyu Force."

The four people gathered around and began to discuss it seriously.

"Oh, Fenzhu's design is indeed very interesting."

"But I think the angle at which the arms are raised could be a little higher."

"If there are four of us, wouldn't it be better to have two in the front and two in the back for the composition?"

Red Bull looked at the four of the Twelve Heavenly Kings of the Resistance Army, who were on par with him and whose combat strength was equally matched, and shook his head helplessly.

"You lot are still not doing your jobs properly every day."

Lan Shu, taking a moment from his busy schedule, replied.

"Nonsense, we've been training new recruits at headquarters recently, how are we neglecting our duties?"

Red Ox asked with a smile.

"How many Transcendent Beings were trained this quarter?"

"one."

"How many froze to death?"

"Ten... cough cough, there's no other way. Without the Transcendent Realm, they can't withstand the low temperatures, and our facilities here are also poor, as you know."

"They were willing to come to headquarters for special training because they understood the situation and were mentally prepared. I don't mean to blame you."

The light on Yunyang's Bagua mirror gradually faded.

He looked at everyone present and said.

"The Abyss invasion has begun ahead of schedule. The Federation will definitely not be able to defend against it. An Abyss attack that will sweep the globe is about to arrive. We must seize this opportunity to achieve Zero's most desired goal."

As soon as Yun Yang spoke, the four members of the Black Horse team reluctantly put away the Ginyu Force action images and began to discuss serious matters.

"This isn't the first time we've failed to defend against an abyss invasion. What opportunities are there to seize?"

"This time is different. In the past, we were prepared to resist the invasion of the abyss. Even if the Federation couldn't hold on, it was defeated by the tenth wave of phantom beasts."

If the Abyss Invasion has reached the tenth wave, and the main crystal has been destroyed, only the remaining Abyss creatures that travel through the breach to cause destruction in other cities will remain.

The Federation often spares no expense to leave high-level creatures in Glory City to be eliminated.

This time, however, all the Glory Cities were caught off guard and would definitely not last until the tenth wave, or even the fifth or sixth wave of Destruction Beasts, before their main crystals were destroyed.

At that time, the gaps opened in the skies above major cities will directly release subsequent waves of abyssal creatures!

Red Bull slammed his two fists together.

"I understand. This situation is going to be very serious. The garrison forces in all the major cities of the Federation will be unable to attend to anything else... My compatriots are going to suffer. No, I have to go back to China and help them defend Glory City!"

Yun Yang's fan blocked Chi Niu's path.

"One person can't change the overall situation, and if you go now, it will be too late. We might as well take this opportunity to complete our mission."

The four members of the Black Horse team became serious.

"We need to gather manpower and get moving. Target... the teleportation hibernation pods!"

……

Space, geosynchronous orbit.

A massive, triangular pyramid-shaped metal space base is constantly rotating.

Inside the main control room of this space base, in the pilot's seat, sat a young woman wearing a metal butterfly mask.

Her red and blue light armor accentuated her graceful curves.

She crossed her legs, a slight smile on her lips, and stared at the satellite monitoring screen in front of her.