It is honestly wild how quickly humanity just accepted the fact that glowing magical portals could rip open the sky at any given moment. Like one day everyone is just going to work and paying their taxes and complaining about the weather and the next day a literal rift in the fabric of space tears open above the city skyline. These rifts are called Gates and they are completely terrifying. They dump out monsters that look like they crawled right out of some twisted nightmare and if they are not cleared out fast enough they erupt and destroy everything in their path. The only reason the world has not ended a hundred times over is because of the Awakeners. These are people who randomly got superpowers when the Gates first appeared. They are treated like absolute royalty now. Like they are celebrities and weapons and heroes all rolled into one heavily publicized package. And sitting at the very top of that ridiculous hierarchy is Bai Li.
