The Thirteen Great Thieves had been wiped out!
This explosive news spread from the Plas City-State through traveling merchants and delegations returning home.
Everywhere the news reached, it sent shock waves!
How many people had grown up falling asleep to tales of the Thirteen Great Thieves?
Parents everywhere liked to use the Thirteen Great Thieves to scare their children!
And the Thirteen Great Thieves really had roamed all over the Antares Continent, leaving their footprints everywhere.
Organizations and powers as infamous and formidable as the Thirteen Great Thieves were few and far between.
Even the fabled Legendary Zerg, the nine great Ice Spirits, and the Yōma King were somewhat more remote by comparison.
Ordinary Yōma often attacked people, but the Yōma King was merely a background presence.
The Ice Spirits' crossing of Bright Gorge had happened three hundred years ago.
But the Thirteen Great Thieves were a tangible presence!
Individual members of the Thirteen Great Thieves were targets many heroes used to build their reputations.
How many heroes had become famous because they had fought the Thirteen Great Thieves?
And in many fabricated little stories, the Thirteen Great Thieves frequently appeared as villains.
Yet these notoriously vicious figures-
Beings who stood almost at the pinnacle as long as no one in the Legendary Domain intervened-had been wiped out in one fell swoop!
"Someone Legendary. It must have been a Legendary dwarf!"
"Hey, don't talk nonsense. They have the Legendary Pact. Let's not bring that up."
"Right, right. It was the knight orders of the Plas City-State and the Theocracy."
"Yeah, remarkable."
"Indeed. They rid the people of a scourge."
"I heard Baron Link was renowned for his integrity and fairness. Now I see his reputation was well deserved."
"Absolutely incredible!"
For a time, even Lin Hao's reputation began slowly spreading