Chapter 523
One week had passed. People were still talking about the incident with the Inoue family, given that the entire planet had been held hostage, but the buzz was gradually dying down.
After all, it was unlike other incidents where surviving accomplices had to be hunted down. With the perpetrators—aside from the family head—all alive and captured, it was closed quickly. And because of the swiftness of it all, the public’s attention was not on a case dragged on for months but on a few other key points of the incident.
“There’s a spell that lets you achieve ascension without entering the Towers of Heroes? Any chance it’ll be commercialized?”
“So you can use a demon to revive people who were used as material for bioweapons...? This truly is a breakthrough, but... something about it still feels wrong....”
“So that bastard Akasha got away again. If he shows up later, it’s going to be a nightmare for us.”
“We should find a way to protect the planet from incidents like this in the future...”
With the many new technologies that the Inoue family had hidden away all surfacing, it was only natural that the public’s interest would shift away. The threat of another crisis was looming right before them.
However, that, though, was the public—the Heroes Association hadn’t gotten lax. Gregory had gone as far as treating Ryuuma as a full-blown traitor in league with the Demon Force. Trials had gone on for a while, reaching the seventh day. Thankfully, the seventh marked the end of the final trials for everyone involved.
“Hmm...”
Near the International Court—where trials with a high risk of the Demon Force’s interference were conducted here under Ludwig’s protection, physically sealed off from any outsider access—Se-Hoon was seated on a bench nearby, reading through the final report of the trials. Being a close acquaintance of Ludwig, he had naturally passed through the barrier upon arriving at the outskirts of Babel’s city center.
“Quite a few death sentences, huh.”
Since Ryuuma’s takeover, the family had mostly experimented on captured demons and monsters, so the sentencing was relatively light for recent affiliates. However, for those who had collaborated with the previous family leader, there was no mercy. Every single one of them—those who had conducted gruesome experiments that remained undisclosed while simultaneously fulfilling their own interests—had been sentenced to death.