In the days that followed, the entire Vivel kept discussing the incident on the Ninth Artificial Sky Island, and the heat showed no sign of dying down.
The long-awaited Aerial Combat Martial Arts Festival had only just begun its first round when it was attacked by a new species of Demon Scarabs. Several people were injured, some seriously, and the competition was forced to stop. It was certainly an inauspicious start.
People kept discussing the matter, even condemning the Floating City League, believing that the League had failed to properly investigate the competition venue beforehand. The fact that a nest of new-species Demon Scarabs had appeared near Vivel was simply unacceptable.
What was worse, some people even attributed Vivel's frequent disappearances during the preceding period to this incident, believing that the new-species Demon Scarabs had silently abducted the citizens and eaten them as food.
As a result, many people began placing the blame on the Floating City League's incompetence.
The fact that a new species of Demon Scarabs had appeared around the Pontiff's Floating City without anyone noticing was enough to make people accuse the Floating City League of incompetence, let alone the other matters that had arisen.
Fortunately, because the memories of anyone killed by Demon Scarabs would disappear from everyone's minds, the rumors were eventually disproven, and people learned that the missing citizens had not been killed by the new-species Demon Scarabs.
Therefore, even though people continued to discuss the matter heatedly, it eventually passed.
Just when everyone thought the Aerial Combat Martial Arts Festival would be canceled, Hardman, as the organizer of the festival, issued a statement on behalf of the Floating City League.
"Survival competition will be deemed to have ended ahead of schedule. Only teams that have fulfilled the conditions for clearing it will continue