Chapter 1202: Familiar man
Michael put his focus back onto the Summit of the Upper Echelon leaders. They had once again been talking about the Feast, as well as the revelation that the Ersatz had been spreading Artifice to the general public.
"This is dangerous. We must apprehend these individuals immediately!"
"That’s not enough. I think that we should prosecute everyone who is proven to have an Artifice in their hearts. That’s the only way that we could prevent more Artifice from spreading."
"And Michael... It is unfortunate, but Lady Charys is right. We cannot let the Feast continue any longer. It’s only under all these chaos and festivities that the Ersatz are allowed to roam free and spread their lies."
Michael looked towards these Upper Echelon leaders. "I agree that the Feast should be stopped," he said. Then, he stared at everyone in order to emphasize his next words.
"But we cannot prosecute those innocent civilians who had been brainwashed by the Ersatz."
His words seemed to be controversial within the group.
"But is that not dangerous? If we don’t kill them off now, they’ll just multiply until we are completely overwhelmed."
Michael shook his head. "If we do start killing people off, that would only push the public towards Ersatz hands."
Thankfully, Eldea and Charys both nodded and agreed with Michael’s words.
"The young man is right," said the vivacious Draconian woman. "It will only sow negative emotions amongst the general public."
"And some will think that it is an excuse for us to hoard Aubility Power. They will think that the only reason we prohibit Artifice is because we don’t want them to have power," said Eldea.
The others didn’t seem convinced about this kind of decision, but they didn’t outwardly deny their words.
And so, because of that, Eldea was given the permission from everyone in the room to start sending Knights and Soldiers to start patrolling the area and begin to crack down on the spread of Artifice.
Unfortunate as it was, this meant that the Feast would have an early conclusion. It was barely past noon.
"But what about the results of the competition?" someone amongst the Upper Echelon leaders said.
Immediately, they turned to Charys. She was the ultimate deciding factor in the Feast. After all, she was the one who sponsored the prizes.
"Then let us see the rankings for the Feast."
Then, she turned towards her Draconian attendants and snapped her fingers at them. They quickly brought her a large scroll containing the updated list of rankings in the Feast.
"Look for yourselves," said Charys. "These are the top 10 rankings."
The Draconian attendants brought everyone their own scroll to see the rankings.
Many of them raised their hands and fists in celebration, while some dejectedly put their heads down in disappointment.
"Hmm? Reborn company?" Charys said out loud.
It wasn’t long before everyone turned their attention towards the rankings. And there, they saw that the Reborn company didn’t show up in the upper part of the list. They didn’t show up in the 10th to 5th place either.
Instead, they wound up in 4th place! Everyone couldn’t help but take a deep breath once they saw this.
They couldn’t believe that in such a short amount of time, half a day basically, this new upstart company led by a teenager was able to go from the 10th place all the way to the 4th place!
Expectations for Reborn was already high. But somehow, they were able to surpass that and more!
Because of this, many began to wonder.
If the Feast continued on, would they have entered into the top 3 as well? That would be an unthinkable possibility because only the Conglomerates were able to achieve that. Heck, Reborn even beat the Hepheasteus Conglomerate, taking the 4th spot away from them!
And once they began to think about it, it definitely could have been possible.
If Reborn’s progress continued on till the end of the seventh day of the Feast, then they could have probably reached the same results as the Goldstein company, the 3rd ranking in the Feast.
But that was a little bit controversial. The difference between the two companies would have been minimal.
Since the Feast stopped abruptly, no one could truly know what would have happened.
Michael wasn’t that disappointed with this result. After all, 3rd and 4th place didn’t really all that mattered to him.
At least, it wasn’t enough for him to risk more civilians becoming poisoned by Ersatz agenda. It was better to be safe than sorry.
After all, the Feast could have continued, and Reborn could have still remained in the 4th spot. That wasn’t enough of a reason to let the Ersatz win. He had to think about the bigger picture.
Anyway, getting 4th meant that they were entitled to a much bigger portion of Tri-star’s territory in the Upper Echelons. Meaning, they could finally advance over to the elite’s area and start their business there!
"Reborn! I remember now!" Charys suddenly burst out loud. Her Draconian slit eyes stared toward Michael with an intensity that made him a little bit intimidated.
"Do you know about a guy in the Kings Region with dark hair, rugged beard?"
Michael couldn’t answer. That was too wide of a description.
"He smells like spices and could talk about nothing but his son being a good chef or something. I think his name is Ronnie?"
Michael took a second before he finally put a face to Chary’s description.
"Tony?"
"YES!" she exclaimed.
Michael, surprised by this unexpected connection, summoned Tony from the Rebornian headquarters through his Shadow Teleportation.
As soon as Tony ascended from the shadows, he looked around the room, confused.
"Michael?... what am I doing here?"
Michael pointed to Charys. "Do you know her?"
And it was at this point that Tony’s eyes widened. "You!"
Everyone gasped as soon as Tony pointed rudely at Charys and addressed her so casually. Even the other Draconians were appalled.
"HAHAHAHA! It is you, the great Chef! Everyone, meet the man who satiated my hunger!"
