Every country was shrouded in a haze. The citizens kept protesting against any secret genetic experiments. The officials of the big countries had no choice but to swallow their teeth. Now, genetic technology was the only life-saving straw they could grab.
Just like that, in the year after the fourth ruin, the two former overlords, the Atlantean Kingdom and the Ice Bear Kingdom, had already begun to decline. The situation was unstable. There were frequent frictions between countries overseas. Even the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder due to repression.
Great Xia became the brightest light standing in the east. The other countries could only hold on bitterly. Especially the Atlantean Kingdom and the Ice Bear Kingdom. In accordance with the principle of not falling, they were never willing to show weakness and still blindly promoted their overlord status.