If what erupted in the United States was merely a conflict,
then elsewhere, it could already be called a war.
In South America, the struggle between the European Heavy Industry Group and the American Military-Industrial Complex became apparent; both sides dispatched larger teams of Transcendent entities, along with conventional troops,
to formally engage in warfare in cities, fields, and barren mountains.
In just one day, forty mid-to-high level Transcendent beings died.
In order to gain a war advantage, both sides even resorted to assassinations to physically eliminate the management levels of each other's interest groups.
As for the ordinary residents of South America, they flocked to the few cities with giant buildings, namely Sao Paulo, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago...
The population capacity of these urban skyscrapers was far from accommodating the influx of people from all directions,
