Darian had completely brought down the New Sages Tournament. Under that pressure, the Wube family and the Blue Pole planet were forced to hand over all organization to the planet Aethel.
And it wasn't just those two powers that felt insulted. Everyone from the planets that would have benefited from the cheating now hated Darian's guts. That hatred practically spilled from their eyes… they would have profited big time this round, and cutting off that gain hit them as hard as if he'd killed their parents.
The worst part was that they were all sure it was impossible to be caught. Not even a Nine-Ring Spiritual Guardian could perfectly sense the fluctuations from the artifacts they'd used. They were the lowest-grade kind and could easily be mistaken for the young contestants' ring powers.
