Aftermath

Killing Li Yao had been simple. After all, he was only a War God. Against Chu He, a Planetary Level Spirit Reader who had caught him completely off guard, he hadn't even realized he was under attack, let alone had a chance to fight back.

But the waves stirred by his death had only just begun.

Paris Base City, Polanas Family headquarters.

Inside a bedroom on the top floor of a Gothic noble's castle, Kraft, the current head of the Polanas Family, answered a phone call.

"What?" Kraft stood by the window, looking down at the fountain garden in the castle grounds. His gaze was cold, his expression sinister.

"You're saying... my sister was killed?"

The icy chill in his voice came through even the satellite phone, and the person in charge could feel it.

"Y-yes. That Lord Chu He..." The person in charge glanced at the two headless bodies in the conference room and shuddered. "He... he even uploaded the surveillance footage to the Martial Artist Forum."

"Beep—"

The phone in the person in charge's hand went dead. He stared at it in a daze, at a loss for what to do.

Meanwhile, Kraft opened the HR Alliance Martial Artist Forum. The video of the Vulture and Scorpion couple being killed was rapidly climbing the trending list.

The video showed an Advanced War God who owned a Black God Set and the HR Alliance's China regional executive president trying to take the property of a nineteen-year-old councilor, even insulting him—and being killed on the spot by that very councilor.

Clement watched the whole video in silence, then read the comments beneath it. His expression shifted between dark and pale.

"Damn it!"

"Damn it!"

The curses kept coming, accompanied by the sound of furniture being smashed.

The evidence was conclusive. The two had brought this on themselves. Clement couldn't even retaliate openly.

That was a councilor!

At present, there were no more than sixty councilors on Earth within the War God Palace's records!

Even the entire HR Alliance wouldn't dare do something like this to a councilor without cause.

Two mere Advanced War Gods had actually dared to do it...

If they were killed, they had it coming!

If they dared insult a councilor to his face, who knew how arrogant and overbearing they were in private?

It had been a long time since anything this explosive had appeared on the Martial Artist Forum. Naturally, Warriors everywhere were abuzz with discussion.

"Good Lord, this is insane!"

"Where did this monster named Chu He come from?"

"A nineteen-year-old councilor? Good Lord!"

Even the most levelheaded people were stunned by the news.

"How can this be? Aunt's really dead?" At the Elite Training Camp, Candice, the Polanas Family's first heir, stared in disbelief with his deep-set eyes.

The identities and abilities of all three people involved were uncovered almost instantly.

The Vulture and Scorpion had been famous for years, and plenty of people knew them.

But before this, only a small number of people who had seen Chu He at the War God Palace had known who he was.

Now, as the video spread like wildfire across the global Warrior forums, the nineteen-year-old councilor had burst into the sight of Warriors around the world.

Nineteen years old! A councilor!

Even the most reckless people had never imagined a genius like this could exist!

If he had been an eighteen-year-old Advanced War God, perhaps the well-informed wouldn't have been so shocked.

After all, Chu He hadn't come from an ordinary family. Both his grandfather and father had become War Gods. Hong and Thunder God's children had also become War Gods at a young age.

But a nineteen-year-old councilor...

That was proof of truly extraordinary talent!

The last person to astonish the world like this had been Luo Feng, the Invincible War God at nineteen.

"Another Chinese person! Good heavens! I've always said their genes are the best!"

"Exactly! The world's strongest, Hong, is Chinese, and the second strongest, Thunder God, has Chinese ancestry too. Now these two new geniuses are Chinese as well..."

"Good Lord! I suspect it has something to do with their culture!"

At that moment, organizations around the world and most Warriors began discussing this incident and the man at its center.

At the headquarters of the Extreme Martial Arts Gym, inside a massive, abandoned spacecraft.

Hong looked at Thunder God with a gentle expression and a smile on his lips. "Looks like your Thunder Dojo has produced a genius too!"

"Brother Hong, you make it sound like that!" Thunder God grinned. "I'd like to recruit him, but he's already set up his own Jiuzhou Group. That makes his intentions pretty clear. I doubt I have a chance."

"That's true. This Chu He is a little different from Luo Feng..." As he spoke, Hong's expression grew calm. Deep in his eyes, a trace of sorrow flickered and vanished.

"Brother Hong, maybe Luo Feng was just unlucky. If you're willing, why not train someone else? Chu He's a Spirit Reader too. How about giving me that copy of Basic Spirit Reader Techniques you have?" Thunder God rolled his eyes, rubbed his shiny bald head, and grinned.

"You..." Hong shook his head with a bitter smile. "You haven't even met Chu He, and you're already in a hurry to ask me for something for him?"

"Who said it has to be for him? There's another Spirit Reader at my Thunder Dojo named Sago Nehru. I could be asking on his behalf, couldn't I?" Thunder God insisted.

"Hah! Sago Nehru's been at your Thunder Dojo for ages. If you wanted it for him, you would've asked me a long time ago. You wouldn't have waited until now." Hong saw right through Thunder God's little scheme.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Hong shook his head and continued, "Never mind. It's good to nurture another genius."

"Who knows... I'm worried that one day, some civilization or faction in the universe will discover Earth!"

"When that happens, who knows what those powers will do to the people of Earth? Wipe us out, enslave us, or sell us as slaves..."

"One more genius could help shoulder some of the burden."

"Exactly!" Thunder God slapped his thigh. "Brother Hong, you really do think ahead!"

He said it, but Thunder God knew perfectly well that Earth was no more than a speck in the vast universe.

Even now, only the two of them could shoulder the future of humanity on Earth.

If Luo Feng had continued to grow, he might have become one of them. But who could have known...

"By the way, Brother Hong, the HR Alliance is demanding that Chu He be dealt with. What do you think?"

As Thunder God brought it up, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

He'd been fed up with those people in the HR Alliance for a long time.

All they ever did was fight for power and profit. They never gave humanity's future a thought.

Still, since they hadn't done anything to harm humanity, Thunder God could tolerate their existence.

If you asked him, Chu He should've killed more of them!

He'd finally caught them making a mistake. He should've killed that other person in charge nearby too, and wiped them all out.

"Come on. It's time for a meeting at the War God Palace." Hong's expression turned cold, a trace of killing intent in his eyes.

With their influence, the two of them had learned what had happened as soon as it unfolded.

Li Yao had even dared to go after Luo Feng's family. He deserved to die!