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The World Chat Channel was currently a mess. The Castle Lords and Rangers weren't talking about the upcoming Demon Slayer Tournament. It was about the sudden 'disappearance' of the leaders of the Ranger Alliance.
Just now, the Ranger Alliance's members found out that their alliance's base was destroyed and all members stationed there were also dead.
Even more terrifying was that as soon as they tried to contact their alliance leaders, they discovered that they had collectively disappeared from their friend lists and group chats, without any notification, which meant that they were dead.
There were hundreds of millions of members and hundreds of high-level leaders, each one being at least a Saint, in the alliance.
[How is this possible? Although those Rangers weren't that strong, they were spread around the world. How did they die at the same time? Even a God can't possibly find them all. I believe that only the GM can do it.]
[Hey, what do you mean they weren't 'that strong'? Most of them were Saints, alright.]
[Bruh, look at this man's account. He's a top-level Castle Lord. He's most likely a Demigod by now…]
[Anyways, why would the GM kill so many Rangers at once? Moreover they were all the leaders of a single alliance. It seems more like an act of revenge against the Ranger Alliance. They probably provoked some Divine Pantheon or another terrifying faction.]
[It is worth mentioning that the Ranger Alliance, which has hundreds of millions of members, is now headless and they tried to elect new leaders but all of them firmly refused. I'm a hundred percent sure that they have provoked someone and now anyone who dares to become their leader, they would probably die.]
The funniest thing was that at this time, most Castle Lord alliances also directly ordered their members to stay put and not provoke any faction with connections to a God. The leaders of some alliances even directly resigned in fear that this may happen to them.
At this moment, a message appeared that caught everyone's attention.
[I can probably guess who did it. Just before this incident, the leaders of our Ranger Alliance dispatched many members to team up to infiltrate the Endless Prairies and the Andes Highlands to steal resources from some of the unoccupied territories. I just got the news that those Rangers are also dead…]
[He is correct! It seems that shortly after the death of those Rangers, the base camp of our alliance was destroyed and then hundreds of leaders were assassinated!]
[Were those leaders of your alliance crazy? Didn't they know that the Endless Prairies and Andes Highlands are Lord Haru's territory?]
[Humph! Those are not Haru's resources! They are unowned territories of the Castle Lords who died in the recent war between the Great Aetherium and the Allied Forces. What does it have to do with Haru?]
[See kids, this is the definition of an idiot. Since Lord Haru defeated the Allied Forces so those were his spoils of war. We have finally understood who killed those idiots. Goodbye, I have to prepare for the upcoming Demon Slayer Tournament, I gotta go.]
[Hahaha, if you have the ability, you can try attacking the Great Aetherium yourself.]
[Their base camp's location can be found by anyone, but I'm very curious, how did Lord Haru find those leaders? I've heard that even other leaders of the Ranger Alliance didn't know their location.]
[Lord Haru is the strongest Castle Lord. He must've had a Divine Artifact that we don't know about!]
[But still, didn't we just take a handful of resources? Not only did he destroy our base camp, he also assassinated our leaders. This is too much!]
[Too much? Haven't you seen Breaking Bad? Once everyone hears that even weak Rangers can steal from Lord Haru, what would his reputation be? At that time, every Tom, Dick and Harry would come to try his luck in the Endless Prairies and Andes Highlands to steal 'a few' resources.]
[Hey we have a Heisenberg fan here!]
Many Castle Lords happily taunted the Ranger Alliance. After all, Rangers were directly competing with them for everything. From resources to wild monsters to even local dynasties.
Although most Castle Lords can accept the existence of rangers, some believed that Rangers were failures who have already lost their qualifications to compete for the God King's Throne and by competing with the Castle Lords, they were 'sabotaging' the Castle Lords' chances by delaying their development.
Anyways, this matter exposed another fact that nobody, be it a Castle Lord or a Ranger, can mess with Haru even if their location is hidden because Haru can find them. Many people even theorised that this 'artifact' can't be a one-time thing as Haru wouldn't have used it now on those few Rangers if that was the case.
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