Chapter 517 Xanders’ Reputation Peaks, As Planned

"Are you kidding me?" Haru slammed the table and pointed fingers at the woman in the hologram. Her black uniform was too eye-catching. Especially, in recent times.

Enigma.

Even though she was just a hologram, her presence inspired fear and rage.

"You appear out of nowhere, tell me she's a victim, really now?" Haru looked at Dreamer in displeasure.

'Well, I shouldn't be showing this yet. But since you...her father, I am willing to trust you.' Varian in the hologram thought and tapped on his comm.

"What are you—" Haru stopped abruptly as a file popped up in his comm.

It was a lengthy, extremely technical, and arduous proof of a signal block. It was the proof made by the scientists under Sovereign Irene after testing the 'Blocker'.

"This!" Haru's eyes widened and he scrambled for a holographic pen.

After an hour, Haru slumped in his chair and looked vacantly at Enigma. "...I'm sorry, girl."

"..." Enigma didn't know how to respond to a guy who wasn't even one-tenth her age referring to her as a girl.

"We need your help," Dreamer stressed and pointed to the vials of blue liquid.

"I can give you some readings from the lab's hologram and Enigma will tell you crucial information about the original potion and...the original crucial ingredient—a girl's blood," Dreamer said in a serious tone.

Haru widened his eyes as he felt an ominous premonition.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.

Enigma, who was silent until then, spoke for the first time. "I have a feeling this gamma potion is a bit off. I have the information, you are the expert. We need to find out what's wrong with the potion."

Haru opened his mouth to reject, but recalling the fact that his daughter Maya always liked Shadow Guardians, nodded helplessly.

"Good! Let's get going!"

A difficult task began.

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Across the solar system, social media was on fire.

Given the size of the federation, there were multiple solar social media platforms, but also many numerous regional platforms.

Unless it was a very special occasion, the trending news on the regional platforms didn't align with the solar platforms.

An example of a special occasion was the Gamma Expo.

Since it had been a few hours since its end, billions of people watched the Expo.

Most of them couldn't believe what they were seeing.

Awakeners breaking their bottleneck and advancing an entire level!

Even if it was peak level 5, they reached level 6!

Regardless of their reasons, their previous posts under the intervention of an invisible hand were suddenly made famous.

"Cail Xander is a true hero of humanity!"

"Princess Iris, I'm your biggest fan!"

"I want to be like you when I grow up!"

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"Princess Iris is the future Sovereign!"

"Shadow Guardians are exterminated. Their relatives should be tortured in the cruelest way so that no one even dares to think of betraying humanity!"

"Agreed!"

"Do it!"

"Oh, a guy already proposed it in the gamma expo. I think you saw this video already, it's everywhere."

Slowly, in every post regarding Cail, Iris also started having posts of Varian brutally beating up the Shadow Guardian's relative.

The public sentiment started brewing.

In a matter of hours, the reputation of Cail Xander and Iris Xander reached new heights, only under the unreachable Sovereign Julius.

The Xander family also made use of the momentum and announced that Cail Xander was the one who overlooked and spearheaded the extermination of Shadow Guardians.

They originally wanted Julius with the role, but due to his bad mood, no one dared to approach him.

Thus, as his position elevated further, Call Xander gave a heart-to-heart interview describing his views on Shadow Guardians.

"I will personally oversee the torture of the Shadow guardians' relatives. They're the vilest scum of humanity."

'I tried to stop Julius, but they're dead now. I don't like what I'm saying, but it's for the family my brother built after all.' Cail Xander comforted himself, hoping his conscience wouldn't find his actions despicable.

'Yay! I finally got some recognition! It's not just Charles in the family, alright? Before his sudden rise, I was the biggest genius. Notice me!' Princess Iris Xander was finally happy with the attention she was finally getting.

As the two got more and more famous along with the post of Varian beating up the guardians' relative, a narrative was slowly consolidated.

Xanders became the heroes, with Cail and Iris leading them, while guardians became the villains, with Enigma at the helm.

As their reputation reached a peak, Varian's comm rang.

{We found the undiscovered effects of Gamma potion. They are...}

Reading the message, he smiled.

His lips arched into a bloodthirsty smile as he let out a roaring laugh.

"It's finally time!"