Chapter 1027 Protests
After the news of 'The Masked Wife Stealer' shook the martial world, information about the war of the 4th quadrant began to slowly trickle out. It would only be a couple of weeks before the campaign ended, so it only made sense that the news was just coming out now despite the battle for Purple Flame Tower occurring more than two months prior.
When the world first learned that God Sacharro hadn't shown up personally, they were both disappointed and slightly disgusted. After all, he was practically saying that his underlings were enough to help a sect of the 4th quadrant out of their plight. What man would mess with the livelihood of his wife? Especially his first wife?
Clearly, God Sacharro felt that his action wasn't needed, and shockingly, he was proven right.
News of the Demon Generals spread like wildfire as their feats became public knowledge.
Conquering two towers in a mere three days, claiming the nearly unconquerable Purple Flame Tower, forcing away the geniuses of the 4th quadrant as though they meant nothing. Any one of these feats was world shattering, let alone them being attached to a single group.
At that point, the Demon Generals became a staple name, becoming as famous as many of the other personal guards of the future heirs of high-ranking quadrants. Many felt that they would soon have the right to compete with the Star Force of the first ranked quadrant and the Heavenly Sword Guild of the third ranked quadrant, each one respectively led by one of the eleven True Gods.
Of course, those of the Star Force and Heavenly Sword Guild snorted with disdain, wanting to shoot these rumors down. However, that was when another piece of information began to rock their confidence.
It actually turned out that God Sacharro had actually only sent 3000 to add to the numbers of Flaming Lily Sect. And, on top of that, aside from 10 or so of them, the rest were still essence gatherers!
When these statements were fact checked, the public was beginning to become numb from all the shocks of the past week. It felt like a storm was brewing in the martial world and all they as normal people could do was sit and watch.
For 3000 saints to turn the tides of a battle was already impossible. So, for the same feat deemed impossible for saints to be accomplished by a band of essence gatherers… Just who were these Demon Generals?!
Now, people became even more sure that the feats of the Demon Generals would soon work their way up to match the Star Force and Heavenly Sword Guild.
What was unfortunate was that Dragons were too arrogant to ever form such forces to follow another, so they had no such groups in their ranks. In addition, God Anak had his own force as well, named the Winged Legion. However, after his resounding defeat by the hands of a no-name individual, many began to unconsciously lower him from the ranks of the True Gods.
It also didn't help that, aside from God Sacharro, God Anak was the only True God outside the top 10 quadrants. So, many already had a slight stigma against him due to no fault of his own.
The truth was that God Anak wasn't any less powerful that the other two True Gods on the saint floors despite his quadrant's rank, and the two of them knew this as well. It was just unfortunate for God Anak that Dyon so perfectly countered him, leading him to be so publicly embarrassed in front of the world. His fate was truly lamentable.
It also didn't help that the Wings Legion were among the members of the Emperor Giant Clan who were forced to kneel and cough up blood by Dyon.
Just as people were becoming accustomed to the ground breaking news and the bold showing by God Sacharro, the next day came and the Sapientia released yet another wave of information.
This time, it focused entirely on Madeleine, God Sacharro's wife.
It turned out that not only had she single-handedly defeated both top ranked disciples of the Flame Rebirth and Fiery Lotus Sects, even after the third ranked disciple of the Golden Crow Sect joined, the three of them were simultaneously defeated!
Reports had it that Madeleine's faith seed wasn't actually the main point of her talent, it turned out that she actually had a God level constitution as well! To top it all off, it was actually the top 3 ranked Goddess' Disposition!
The world could only sigh with envy at the man lucky enough to be her husband, but none dared to have any designs on her. What a joke? Even True Gods didn't dare to so lightly offend one another, let alone the general population.
In the end, Angelica Crow, the third ranked disciple, was captured by Madeleine as a prisoner of war. However, it didn't end there. She also caught the first, ninth and tenth ranked disciples of the Flame Rebirth and Fiery Lotus Sect's, on top of also capturing the seventh ranked disciple of the Golden Crow Sect, Egan Goldeen.
The three-sect alliance suffered a crippling defeat. In the end, just to stabilize the situation and hold out for the next campaign, the arrogant Golden Crow Sect was forced to mobilize their first and second ranked Inner Disciples along with their true forces. However, they didn't arrive in time to stop the conquering of Rainbow Flame Tower.
Just like that, the campaign came to an end. What was once a territory where the Golden Crow Sect owned eight of nine towers, became a gate where the Flaming Lily Sect owned five of nine.
On the last day before Dyon awoke from his two-week sleep, the SNN ended their spree of news with a few speculations that didn't have solid evidence, but were of note.
One was that God Sacharro supposedly had a little sister. It wasn't by blood, but seemed to be by oath. Either way, it was speculated that despite having the aura of a mere Duke, she actually also had one of the top 3 God level constitutions: Infinite Ice Hell.
When this news was revealed, there was an unexpected response: Fear.
The Infinite Ice Hell constitution wasn't like the other two constitutions it shared its top 3 rank with. It had devastating attack potential, yes, but what was feared was the disposition of its inheritor, not its power.
There was a reason that the manifestation of this constitution was an ice demon with beauty that could topple the world, dressed in all black.
Whichever era this constitution appeared in would undoubtedly become an era ruled by its wielder.
The second piece of speculation was that Clara and Ri's relationship was closer than it might seem. Although it was only an opinion piece, the writer posed the possibility that the masked wife stealer could actually be the mysterious husband of Clara.
His reasoning was sound. After all, Clara claimed that her husband was a better alchemist than her, while this masked man was a 6th stage comet level expert. However, his opinion was still taken with a grain of salt.
The third piece wasn't speculation at all, but rather, reality. It was said that Madeleine actually managed to comprehend her pseudo domain before even stepping into the pseudo celestial realm, let alone the celestial realm. As a result, she was directly promoted to Core Disciple the moment she stepped out of the Gate, greeted like a hero.
The fourth piece of information was also about the 4th quadrant. After the Gate closed, it was said that the elders of the Golden Crow Sect and the Flaming Lily Sect went into closed door negotiations. No one knew what they spoke of, but there was no doubt that it involved the abrupt attack of Golden Crow Sect the year prior.
According to sources, the meeting ended with the Flaming Lily Sect releasing their third and seventh ranked disciples. However, it was said negotiations were still ongoing with the Flame Rebirth and Fiery Lotus Sects for their disciples.
It was unfortunate. The two bottom ranked sects had tried to take advantage of the situation, but now they had lost their most promising and talented saints and would most definitely have to pay a hefty price to appease the anger of the Flaming Lily Sect.
The fifth piece of information was about the Kitsune. It turned out that they were asking for an audience with the masked wife stealer, but to no avail. They had tried to go to the Snow Palace, but Alexandria was nowhere to be found. They had no idea when she would show back up again.
According to sources, the Water Mist Sect was also very interested in information about Alexandria because they were very eager to accept her as one of their core disciples despite the protest of Chrysanthemum.