Since his father's death, Julius was never been this nervous.
As he strolled back and forth in the wide hallway of the Guardian Palace, his heartbeat didn't slow nor did his breathing calm. The sweat continued dripping down his forehead.
His superhuman senses ensured that Julius was acutely aware of even the minute changes in his body. The cheat-like senses now turned into curses—they reminded him of his pathetic state.
"Enigma! Dreamer!" Julius slammed the wall as he uttered their names through gritted teeth.
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The wall that could easily withstand even attacks of level 9 started to tremble and cobweb-like cracks started to spread throughout.
Julius snorted and glanced through the news.
"Xander family! What are you doing?! They are kids!"
"You want us to drink human blood?"
"You nearly caused irreversible damage to humanity!"
"If you can't even study it properly, why release the potion?"
"Our hopes are crushed."
"The Xanders are no longer what they once were."
Kach!
Julius' hands dug into the wall as his body trembled in rage.
There weren't just a million or hundred million messages against him, but more than a billion!
"Haa! Haa! Haa!" Julius took in quick, sharp breaths as he tried to stabilize himself.
He checked fifteen minutes ago and it was only three hundred million. The news absolutely blew up.
"I hate it!" Julius clenched his fists so hard that his nails dug into his flesh and the splashing blood formed a small puddle near his feet.
He contacted the Sovereigns. Told them he'd conduct a separate investigation and asked to take down the post.
"Sovereign Julius, this is beyond our control. More than a hundred million people already downloaded the proofs. Do you think we can stop them from sharing it with their personal contacts?
And even if somehow manage that, what about the Science Academies that agreed with the claim?
You shouldn't be thinking about reputation right now, but what you should answer us in the next Sovereign meet." Sovereign Albert said in a cold voice.
"Don't tell me..." Julius' eyes widened as a terrifying guess began to form in his mind.
The new trend was the resurfacing of the old post where Varian beat up the relatives of Shadow Guardian. "Let us not kill these scum, but torture them."
Those were his words, which people at that time agreed with.
Not anymore.
Instead, with the resurfacing of this post, people turned more and more against the violence.
They called for the safety of the Shadow Guardians' relatives and absolutely condemned the Xanders for arresting these innocent people in the first place.
Once the discussion turned in that direction, two people naturally came up.
Cail Xander—deputy head of the Xander family.
Princess Iris Xander—the second-best genius of the Xanders.
Previously, due to a mysterious push in social media, Cail Xander got extremely popular for his strong condemnations against Guardians.
Seeing the opportunity, Xander's family announced that he was the one responsible for the extermination of Shadow Guardians.
At that time, this decision made perfect sense. Not only did it consolidate Cail Xander's own fame, but it also elevated the Xander family's status.
The same went for Princess Iris Xander. She was also promoted as the 'new voice' against terrorism. Later, many 'reports' were 'leaked' into social media showing her valor when she killed many Shadow Guardians who were escaping from the persecution.
The videos where she killed men, women, and children alike without batting an eye were previously seen as heroic.
But now, she was only seen as a cold-blooded viper.
Because, just recently, people came to learn that Shadow Guardians weren't actually terrorists but actually heroes in the shadows.
They also learned that this was an open secret in the military.
This also meant that these two Xander members knew that Guardians were innocent, yet killed them.
It was a cold-blooded murder for fame.
Once they realized this, the public opinion, which previously was overwhelmingly towards Cail and Iris turned on its head.
As they say, the higher you climb, the greater you fall.
The more people respected them in the past, the more they hated them now.
As a result, an unprecedented hate campaign started against these two members of Xanders.