As September began, it was as though some important threshold had been crossed. Certain matters suddenly came into the open.
The relocation of the Hengduan Seven Divisions through a replacement deal was moving faster than expected, and information that had previously remained relatively secret spread rapidly.
A small Wanderer tribe, resettled far from home and quite possibly destined to bleed its last drop in silence through "legal live-subject experiments," suddenly became the focus of attention from all sides.
With it, the fate and final destination of the Wanderers who had once returned to the city drew renewed interest, enjoying a modest resurgence of attention after the wave of public concern that had swept the globe in June.
Interest aside, there was not much to uncover about the Hengduan Seven Divisions themselves. Most people saw that they had lived near Spring City and had close ties to the Luo Family, and everything clicked.
Looked at another way, this also preserved a trace of the "man of feeling" image cultivated by a certain "Living God," making the "replacement" seem only natural.
Within the Inner World, though, people cared more about something else:
If the replacement was progressing this quickly, a great deal of work must have been done in advance. And a bargaining chip that the two leaders of the Amaterasu Cult would find hard to refuse must have been offered. What was it?
Speculation ran rife in the Inner World and soon became a hot topic. Before long, members of the Ability User Association had pooled information from various sources on the Internal Forum and settled on several leading theories:
Some said he had probably promised the Amaterasu Cult that he would change Ban City's special version of the Dreamscape Game to match the version used by the rest of the