The news that Hades had ascended to godhood instantly set the whole world ablaze.
It was only natural. An earth-shaking event like this couldn't possibly be kept secret. Hades wasn't some obscure Lady Dutena before ascending to godhood. As a powerful demigod, he was famous throughout the Astral Sea.
Especially after Hades and his brother Parom joined forces to unleash their fiery combo move, "Sun and Moon in Splendor." Even Mantis the Slippery Snake, a ruthless fighter who had once carved his way from one end of the Shattered Astral Sea to the other without batting an eye, hadn't dared to mess with them.
Plenty of people in the Material World wanted to latch onto Hades and Parom's coattails, but the brothers were aloof. From the moment they entered the Astral Sea until they ascended to godhood, they had never paid any attention to other races besides the Sanghai.
That left all the scholars of divine mysteries among the other races utterly unprepared for Hades's ascension. Seriously, what was with you Sanghai people?!
Just a few days ago, you were still in the middle of a raging civil war.
How had a god of death suddenly appeared today, without the slightest warning?
Hey, everyone had predicted that Sanghai was about to decline. And then you pulled this out of nowhere and made us all look bad!
Those were the sort of things giving astrologers and prophets headaches.
Meanwhile, practitioners of necromancy were ecstatic. At last, they had a powerful patron of their own!
Sure, they weren't Sanghai, so they wouldn't get a share of the meat. But they were necromancers, after all. With the necromantic school on the verge of rising, they could certainly expect to get a little soup.
The most panicked of all were the lunatics studying forbidden