As Dyon was surprising the crowd again and again with his demeanor, a storm was raging through the martial world. Unsurprisingly, this storm centered around Dyon too.
The moment the valley closed, the Sapientia News Network was bombarded with information piece after information. After receiving so much, as the businessmen they were, they decided to release this information slowly and steadily, first releasing a few teasing announcements to build up anticipation.
When that was completed, the Sapientia introduced a subscription service. For the price of 1 profound stone a month, you could receive all of the firsthand news the SNN had in addition to exclusive videos and interviews from said events.
Then they introduced a 10 profound stone a month premium service that allowed VIP members to receive this news earlier than others.
The best part about all of this was that this was the second phase of Dyon’s plans. As the creator of the Internet, Clara received a 30% cut of all of the profits they made using it. Although 1 or even 10 profound stones wasn’t a lot – in fact, most martial warriors carried the saint stone denomination most frequently – one had to think about just the sheer number of experts there were split between 100 quadrants and 10000 universes.
A single planet would already have about ten billion individuals. In addition, not every universe was as scarcely populated as Dyon’s home which only had 5 inhabited planets. It had to be remembered how young Dyon’s universe was, in addition to the fact a massive war resulted in mass killings earlier in its history.
This was all to say that a single universe usually had a few hundred inhabited planets, resulting in a population counted in tens of trillions.
Then think about how there were one hundred universes to a quadrant, and one hundred quadrants to the cosmos.
The number of individuals who would not hesitate to pay such a trivial amount wasn’t few.
Within the first day of the announcement, billions of subscriptions were taken in by the SNN. By the second day, the number could only be counted in the tens of billions, and by the third, the subscriptions were nearing its first trillion.
Clara could only happily smile as she watched the numbers roll into her Sapientia Banking Account. She had no need to worry about the Sapientia backing out of their word because of the binding contracts she signed. This flow of income was massive for their future plans, and this was just the first month!
Of course, there were some unhappy individuals who thought that the Sapientia were becoming greedy, but this was solved easily.
The Sapientia simply released information on just how expensive it was to maintain the Internet in top condition and that shut those voices of dissent up. How could those who were intelligent not understand how expensive it was to maintain an information network that spanned 100 quadrants? It was perfectly reasonable for the Sapientia to begin charging for their costs.
After almost a week of building up anticipation, the first earth shattering piece was released.
The martial world was taken by storm as they watched God Anak clash with an unknown masked man.
Many were completely shocked by this first release. Some unknown man really dared to antagonize one of the eleven True Gods?
At this point, many couldn’t believe it. This was because these individuals had paid for the basic services and didn’t have access to the videos those who paid 10 profound stones did. But, after reading the article, the couldn’t hold back their curiosity any longer.
The number of premium subscriptions shot upward, each person more eager to see the videos that the last. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that the Sapientia profit margin increased by ten times that very day.
When they laid eyes on the video, many couldn’t believe what they were watching. This was the very first clash Dyon had had with Anak, and from what they could tell, it was a dispute over a woman.
This led to many speculations. Was the masked man really just overly sensitive, thinking that Chrysanthemum was taking a swipe at his wife? Or did he want to take Madeleine as a wife as well?
Many fell in line with this second line of thinking. If think man dared to antagonize God Anak, why wouldn’t he dare to antagonize God Sacharro? Because of this, the SNN coined the term ‘The Masked Wife Stealer’, labelling Dyon as a man who feared nothing, even when it came to stealing the wives of Gods.
The opinions were mixed. Some believed that Dyon was in over his head because he was a complete unknown.
To this, many pointed out that he survived the first interaction, so maybe not. But, that was when others said that he only survived because Anak didn’t want to miss his entry into the valley.
Some of the more astute individuals analyzed the video further. What they found shocked them.
From what they could see, the members of the Emperor God Clan behind Anak were actually trembling, some of them were even bleeding from their fists. At this point, they deduced one thing: this masked man’s Presence had to be otherworldly!
Just when people were beginning to recognize the same thing, the SNN released the second half of the video and sent the martial world into another uproar!
When the realized that Dyon’s mask was actually capable of easily blocking Anak’s Presence, and the fact it was actually a peak level heavenly tribulation type treasure, they couldn’t help but begin speculating on his identity. What level of clan could afford to give such a treasure to their young genius?!