As Lan Bo had said, the main supporters on the planets where the two were located were now hurling curses everywhere. Some were even making explosive claims that Beksas was unworthy of inheriting the royal family.
But this was normal. After all, the Federation was a collective of highly advanced civilizations. Although the Divine Arcana Academy was under imperial rule, it still allowed some degree of freedom online. With such terrible results, the people needed to vent, and they had perfectly valid reasons to do so. Even the royal family itself had no face to suppress those explosive claims and could only let the curses spread everywhere.
In the past, such curses would certainly have become the hottest news in the universe. But during this competition, the voices of those online mobs were completely unable to dominate the trending searches. Rather than kick a defeated contestant while he was down, the masses outside were more interested in the many sensational developments that had emerged from this competition!
On the fourteenth day of the competition, the final clues were gathered, and the first round was officially declared over. It had originally been nothing more than an appetizer, yet no one had expected it to be so intense.
After all, according to the usual pace of the competition, the first round rarely saw clashes between powerful academies. Even when they encountered one another, everyone would subconsciously avoid conflict. What people saw more often were schools ranked in the top hundred—or even several hundred places lower—gritting their teeth and struggling. It was merely a cold dish and a soup course before the main feast.
Because of this, the dark horses of every generation received so much attention. Only they could bring unexpected twists to what was originally a bland prelude.
This time, however,