The Ancestral Dragon Church's reason for coming was actually quite simple.
The previous battle between several Dragon Pearl holders had been far too immense. As a result, anyone paying even the slightest attention to such matters now knew: the Dragon Pearl competition, unseen for eight hundred years, had begun once more on this continent.
The nearly-severed Unfrozen River, a ten-square-kilometer area of land that had been scoured clean, and the poisonous breath of the Great Serpent still lingering in the sky—all were forces that even Elite Transcendents would struggle to face.
It was true that many tourists had originally come chasing rumors that "a Dragon Pearl holder might be in the Northern Lands." However, when they actually encountered the kind of Extraordinary violence capable of leveling a city, most of them chose to leave immediately.
