On social media platforms across the Underground Cities, hashtags like "#BenziNationDestroyed#" and "#CountryCTerritoryExpands#" dominated the trending charts. The comment sections were a world of fire and ice.
On a North American freedom forum, a top-voted comment read, "My God! Country C just annexed a nation without spilling a single drop of blood! Can their Extraordinary Beings 'online shop' for entire countries now?" The post was accompanied by a holographic image of the Profound Nether mothership hovering over Tokyo Bay.
A historian from Europe tweeted mockingly, "Far more efficient than Napoleon—Li Xiang used Spirit Fruits and a Stellar Mother Ship to do what Hitler failed to accomplish with tanks."
Netizens on the South Asian Subcontinent, however, dredged up old scores. "They laughed at us when our Underground City was overrun by Exotic Beasts, and now they just surrender to the enemy? So much for the spirit of Bushido! Guess they fed it to the dogs!"
