As soon as the servers for Pandemonium went live once more, the people are greeted with a video that gave them the run down of what happened in the world for the past year. The video started explaining to the players that a one year has passed since they were out for maintenance.
The video started out with the human allied kingdoms becoming greedy for the huge area that the fallen imperial capital has left. The greed of those that wanted to expand their territories took over them a year long war has been waged by everyone.
The kingdoms of the gnomes, kingdom of the dwarves, the tribes of the orcs and the secret villages of the dragonkins did not actively participate in the war. They did not actively participate in the war but that did not mean that they did not aid the humans going to war for the expansion of their territories.
The territorial war was not encroaching upon the territories of the other races at first, but the greed of man cannot be measured. The whole world became embroiled in war as all the races have joined in the war and even the ones hidden participated to expand their territories since the imperial family is no longer in the continent.
Many would not know this, but the imperial family also pressured the other races near them so that they will not go outside of their hidden civilizations. Previous races that did not have territory are now out in the open with their own cities.
The power shift has become different than before as new races that did not have any interaction with the others have popped up from their hiding places. The one that is most notable is the huge citadel that the undead have created with the help of the demons transporting their castle.
Even famous players have appeared in the video as Hou Yiwei could be seen leading the defense of the hidden civilization of the dragonkins. Creepysoo leading the undead to secure the new land that they have obtained.
Characters that are famous and the representative of their races are all shown in the video promotion. Levin Cloud showed up and is seen taking care of the plant life in Alfheim. Lycan is shown leading a pack of werewolves to a hunt. Solstice is shown sitting on a thrown while numerous vampires bow down to her.
Vayu and Soleil are shown freely roaming the world as what elementals usually do. Even Eldritch could be seen plotting something in the dark while he held a green orb. The one that players wanted to see the most is the 'Demon' player as his battles always gets lots of views in the official channel for Pandemonium.
Even Adrian's character has been included in the promotional video as his character Equinox is observing the chaos happening in the world with a frown. Equinox then looked at the numerous screens that the demon eyes have created and saw the numerous rifts forming in the world.
The video ended with Adrian floating over the floating territory that he owns with all the demons beside him. They then saw a giant monster crawl out from the rift that has been created in the midst of all the chaos happening in the world.
"Did you guys see me in the promotional video?" Creepysoo told everyone in their chat room.
"We were there to you know. But some of us got the spotlight more than others as they seem to be the main character of the video." Peridot stated while hinting at the blatant favoritism that Adrian is currently facing in the promotional video.
"I think your appearances are cool as well while you can clearly see that an AI was controlling my character. The promotional video did give us some insight at what changed with the world as we have a one-year time skip." Adrian stated.
"I know and the maps are said to be outdated. It seems that the world has changed, and numerous lands have become ownerless because of the war." Adrian stated.
"I guess that would have been inevitable since the main superpower of the central continent is no longer active which meant that power hungry kingdoms will definitely want to take the place of the kingdom." Solstice stated as it has been proven in history that others use the misfortune of a group of people to succeed.
"About 50% of the land of the fallen imperial capital has been seized by different powers in the continent. Thankfully, the adventurers guild is still active, and their identification could still be used. The only thing that worries me are the new cities that have popped up that are headed by those of other races." Levin Cloud stated.
"You are correct with worrying about them as we do not know their stance against players. Let us just pray that they have a neutral stance regarding the players. I do not want to get killed without even knowing how I died." Kabrakan stated as he remembered that being persecuted is not a fun experience.
"The promotional video also gave us hints on what threats that are coming next." Adrian pointed out the most important thing that they saw in the video.
"The dark gods are coming." Levin Cloud stated as he knew what the giant monster coming out from the rift ensues.
"I mean, can we even defeat those gods? We already have difficulty with one and they are saying that more of them are going to come?" Peridot grumbled as she knew the difficulty of defeating a dark god.
They also lost their minds when Adrian told them that it was just a low-ranking dark god that descended. They immediately felt that their strength is severely inefficient to handle the future threats that are coming their way. While the discussion about the dark gods was happening, another promotional video dropped.
It is the promotional video about the Pandelympics that will happen in two months. The world is already shocked with the new promotional video and time skip but the Pandelympics made them lose their cool.