All eleven buyers who had chosen to spend fifty thousand Ascension Coins on intelligence received private messages from Guan Tong through the site.
On a global scale, there were certainly many large groups, and these eleven buyers accounted for only a small portion of them.
However, some groups did not trust Guan Tong enough and were unsure whether he was just scamming them out of coins, so they chose to wait and see.
But once the Beixing Nation authorities made the intelligence public, its explosive content shocked Ascendants around the world who learned of it.
As long as one claimed more first places, one could raise one's Mind Power Cap. This was an unprecedented first in eight rules, and its importance went without saying.
Some groups that had not spent Ascension Coins to buy the intelligence felt no lucky relief at getting it for free. On the contrary, every one of their decision-makers broke out in a cold sweat, filled with lingering fear.
Because only the Beixing Nation authorities had chosen to reveal the intelligence. Every other group, organization, and even the authorities of other countries that had bought it had unanimously chosen to conceal it.
What would have happened if the Beixing Nation had also chosen to hide it?
The combat strength of the top members of those groups that had not bought the intelligence would probably have fallen far behind after this rule! In the Apocalypse Rules Era, where stronger get stronger, being one step behind meant falling behind at every step. They might never catch up again.
That intense lingering fear made the decision-makers of those groups curse out the people within their organizations who had thought Guan Tong was unreliable. They also ordered that the next time the site administrator sold intelligence, they had to buy