Chapter 320: That’s An Anomaly
This was not a hidden secret, but not many in the public were aware of the fact until now.
The mogul spread his arms wide, his smirk stretching until it became grotesquely triumphant.
"Exactly. F-tiers. F-tiers clearing D-rank dungeons. Not as deadweight, not as pack mules, but as important members of the crew. Tell me, ladies and gentlemen of the press, has anything like that ever happened before? Their contribution to the clear has triumphed over that of the B-tier Sasha or the B-tier Jack. Some even argue they were more useful than the A-tier Arcane Puppeteer, Vaelira."
Gasps and murmurs rippled across the room. Even the reporter looked momentarily taken aback, though she quickly recovered, scoffing as she folded her arms. "Then either the evaluation was wrong, or they’ve re-awakened."
Maximilian’s smugness only deepened. He reached beneath the podium and produced a sheet of paper, holding it high before dramatically lowering his gaze to read from it.
"Explanations, you say? Very well, let us examine them. According to the official records..." He tapped the page with relish. "... the three Valkyries of Valhalla’s Sinners all had the exact same reading. Identical. An unprecedented event in all of recorded history. Surely, the Awakened Association also knew this. And let me assure you, there is no chance they didn’t conduct the most rigorous tests possible to verify the validity of such impossible results."
The female reporter stiffened, her pen frozen above her notebook.
Maximilian’s voice dripped with poison.
"And as for re-awakening... yes, it exists. But it is rare. Exceptionally rare. A gift granted to only a select few. And yet..." he raised the sheet in the air like a damning piece of evidence, "we are supposed to believe that not one, not two, not three, but all four of them re-awakened in the same, extremely short time window, together, and somehow reached seemingly similar power levels?"
He let the question hang, heavy as a guillotine blade. The audience’s murmur swelled into chaos.
Many of the most influential organizations were aware of the information Maximilian had brought to the public eye today. This was why numerous guilds and orgs were scheming to get hold of Kaiden one way or another. But the aim of Maximilian was not the guilds and other organizations.
It was the general public, the masses, full of ignorant, easily influenced people. His ChronosX’s target audience, just like the audience that supported the rapid rise of Valhalla’s Sinners.