The second round of the Exhibition match continued on like normal. With the continued success of Sir Fenix and the otherwise 'untalented' Knights advancing to the next round, the chocolate ice cream had beco a true viral hit.
The McTony's Restaurant back in the Feast were completely swamped with orders. If it weren't for the Chefs advancing their cultivation throughout the entire Feast, then they wouldn't have been able to handle the workload that they were currently at.
And the best part was that the orders continued to get bigger and bigger with each and every hour!
Not even four hours after the opening, Michael was surprised to find out that they were already on track to surpass 50 million tokens in a single day! He couldn't believe it. At this point, they'd be able to get a hundred million tokens easily!
That would firmly place them near the top 10, or maybe even inside it!
This was exciting. The chocolate ice cream had proven to be incredibly addicting. More than half of the custors were buying more and more, trying out the different flavors to find their favorite ones.
Of course, the McTony's chicken was doing good as well. The two were a perfect al when paired together.
Now, Michael and the Rebornians only had to worry about the Exhibition match.
They didn't really have any need for Jaku to win the competition. In fact, Michael almost wanted them to lose! Maybe fighting against a powerful opponent and being unable to find victory would finally push the lazy Jaku to lock in and practice.
And so, Michael continued to rrily watch the competition with the rest of the spectators.
Until sothing happened.
An invisible shockwave emanated throughout the entirety of New Sparta, alerting Michael.
Sohow, this wave didn't co from anything physical. It wasn't made out of air, sound, or anything else. It felt taphysical, sothing that only his Maugnetic heart could notice.
In fact, he felt the small core on his chest pulsating. He didn't know why it did this, but he knew it was because of that strange feeling.
He imdiately whipped his head trying to find the source of this disturbance. But unfortunately, he seed to be the only one who noticed this.
Every single person around him was clueless as this strange shockwave ca over them. The spectators as well. It looked like he was the only one who noticed it.
"Narito. Sasuki. Did the Ersatz make their move?" he asked them.
The two Shadow Orcs appeared at his feet. Their reflections on the ground expressed their confusion.
"Bu to to… no, Lord Michael. We have them under surveillance at all tis."
Michael verified their claims through his Mini Drone.
The Ersatz were currently about a hundred kiloters away from New Sparta. If they were the one responsible for this, then he would have felt the strongest shockwave coming from that specific location.
Instead, the shockwave ca from inside New Sparta. He was sure of that.
He imdiately closed his eyes, using his Mini Drones to survey the area.
With thousands of eyes watching the city, Michael finally noticed sothing.
He wasn't the only one who noticed this disturbance.
Almost every major company, corporation, or organization were currently having private discussions amongst their top people.
Whatever it was they were discussing, they didn't want anyone else to know.
But of course, Michael was too curious to simply let this opportunity pass by.
He was a Nascent Spirit cultivator now. He was no longer a pawn in their gas. He played by his own rules.
Eventually, he picked his target.
The Zentister company. They had their headquarters positioned at the center of all this commotion. Literally and figuratively.
He pulled his own consciousness into his own Drone, embodying it as if it was his own. And because of that, he could clearly tell that the disturbance ca exactly from this location!
The very shockwave that rocked his heart was caused by them.
What was that? If he wanted to know, he'd have to look inside. But if he were to simply saunter through, he'd get found out imdiately.
He had to get smart about this. Gather intel first before doing anything.
He surveyed the area. There were multiple guards of different loyalties watching guard at the entrances.
It was clear that so of the leaders of the Upper Echelons had gathered at this exact location to talk amongst each other.
After a quick talk with so of the Shadow Orcs patrolling the area, it seed that very early in the morning, multiple automobiles pulled up at the Zentister headquarters.
The Orcs gave him a list.
{Zentister company}
{Cuisinology Pattern}
{Zarax Group}
{...}
There were about eight companies in total, their rankings ranging from the top 11 to top 20.
Michael imdiately cross-referenced these companies to the known companies in the Anti-Automobile group.
But none of them were part of that alliance. They were all either pro automobile, or neutral to it. The Orcs also confird that these companies had never done anything shady to the Reborn company. They competed fair and square, which was good to know.
What are they doing there? Spurred by his curiosity, he willed the Mini Drone to co closer to the building.
But as soon as he did, he felt a powerful force rebuffing him, like a gust coming from a tornado, making his Drone's flight unstable.
It was at this point that he realized what he was dealing with.
That was Aubility Power. But not the ordinary one that he'd seen all this ti. This was Aubility Power that was so dense and so qualitative that it almost beca solid in his eyes.
He understood intuitively. There was a Nascent Spirit cultivator inside. Whoever they were, they used their power to create a privacy barrier between them and the world.
Michael was also a hundred percent sure that the shockwave he felt ca from a Nascent Spirit cultivator.
But… what kind? He didn't see any Aubility Power threads coming outwards.
Was it sothing only Nascent Spirit cultivators had?
Despite advancing to this level, Michael never really knew what kind of powers he had. Harbinger was gone. There was no one to teach him the basics about being a Nascent Spirit cultivator.
The only other person he knew was Katarina. If it weren't for her, he wouldn't have even known that Nascent Spirit cultivators could summon their Diva and use it as armor.
He wished she was here right now. Unfortunately, she was nowhere to be found.
"Young Master…"
Castelle's words brought Michael back to reality. He exited out of the Drone Vision and returned to his body, where he saw Castelle right in front of him with a confused look on her face.
"What's wrong?" he asked her.
Castelle found it hard to find the right words. "Young Master, we've seen a dip in sales."
Michael found this weird. Things were going so well just a few minutes ago. It was uncharacteristic for the market to suddenly change in the matter of minutes, especially in a world that wasn't dominated by the internet.
However, Castelle's intuition was never wrong. She was familiar about the Reborn company like it was her own hand. She would know if they got injured.
"I've verified this with Tony, Young Master. We are losing the virality we had a few minutes ago," she said.
Tony managed McTony's like she did. He had a ntal sense about the company.
If they felt the sa thing, then it was probably true.
"What happened?"
"Well… it's hard to explain, Young Master. One minute we had thousands upon thousands of orders coming in every second. And the next, they were suddenly halved."
At this point, halving their current sales would still be a win compared to yesterday. In fact, they would probably still have that 50 million token sales mark.
But this decline in sales would an that they wouldn't ever progress past their current rank. And with tomorrow being the last day of the Feast, it would be extrely unlikely for them to reach the top 10.
"How could this be?"
Castelle shook her head. "I don't know, Young Master. It's like our custors suddenly lost their appetite."
Michael wondered what kind of incident could have caused this. Anything he ca up sounded nonsensical. It sounded… out of this world.
Wait…
That shockwave. It was undoubtedly made out of Aubility Power, despite the lack of threads.
And what were the characteristics of Aubility Power?
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