Surprise

Tanba, Yingzhou, eight o'clock, Stone Marrow Hall.

As the distant city's lights came on, dinner began as well.

"What great luck."

Russell tied on his napkin expectantly, his face alight with excitement. "I actually arrived right at mealtime. What a coincidence."

"Yes, what a coincidence." Huai Shi sat across from him expressionlessly.

"Even more coincidentally, I pulled this from a Myriad Worlds Card pack shop at Kyoto Station—"

Russell eagerly pulled out a gold-bordered Myriad Worlds Card and showed it to Huai Shi. "Look, the bond between teacher and student is truly unbreakable. I pulled it just like that. It seems a student's love for his teacher really runs deep."

The corner of Huai Shi's eye began to twitch violently.

It felt like some kind of embarrassing roleplay...

Myriad Worlds Card, Golden Card.

—Sword of Calamity · Huai Shi!

Less than three months after King of Tanba, Myriad Worlds Card had unexpectedly released another limited-edition collectible Golden Card of Huai Shi during its year-end promotion.

The sudden collapse of Helios, one of the Ten Legendary Workshops, was undoubtedly a major event that shocked the Present Realm. Tomorrow News certainly deserved another hefty payday from it.

And Huai Shi was once again pushed into the spotlight.

This time, however, unlike Tanba's former savior, Huai Shi had played the role of Helios's destroyer.

As well as the Grandmaster Killer.

Because intelligence concerning Baldr's rebirth and fall, as well as Destruction Factor · Apophis, fell under restricted regulations and was limited and suppressed by the Astronomical Society, Tomorrow News had not made a major spectacle of it. That part of the story required extra payment.

The people who knew the truth were limited to a small circle.

The publicly announced cause of Helios's fall was the consequence of Grandmaster Publius's jailbreak. In order