The rest of March flew by, and before they knew it, the end of the month had arrived.
The Shadow incident that had caused such an uproar in the middle of the month gradually calmed down as the release of the Tenth Apocalypse Rule approached.
What everyone cared about more was what the new rule would be, whether it would be a dangerous Survival Rule, and whether they could get through it safely.
As for matters concerning Shadow, they were ultimately just gossip to most people, far too distant from ordinary lives to hold their attention forever.
Even the Andai State authorities, who had protested the loudest in the first few days, stopped mentioning the matter much after two weeks. They even appeared to be preventing ordinary citizens from continuing to discuss it.
Someone posted on Ascendant's Home, speculating that certain people in the Andai State authorities had begun to feel afraid.
The identities of the people Shadow had killed had long since been dug up by curious onlookers and posted online.
Once everyone learned that Shadow had not slaughtered innocents, but had instead wiped out a small warlord stronghold involved in human trafficking and drug dealing, support for him surged worldwide. People thought he had killed well.
That put the Andai State authorities in an extremely awkward position. Furthermore, some higher-ups had changed their stance because they feared that if the matter grew too large, they would become sworn enemies with Shadow.
A major power naturally would not fear making an enemy of an Ascendant. But for a small country like Andai State, whose population was constantly plummeting, becoming enemies with someone hailed as the World's Number One Ascendant was definitely not a good thing.
Thus, the Andai State authorities began downplaying the incident. Likewise, plenty of doubts emerged