As soon as Allen returned from Hub City, he noticed something was off.
The peak data traffic in the Spirit Communication Network was a full twelve times higher than normal. It wasn't a Beast Tide warning, but rather... a frenzied exchange of emotions and information. It felt like a festival, yet infinitely denser and more boiling. Countless images, audio clips, and transaction logs flooded the network, all pointing to a single name:
"The First Aiselan Steel Knight Martial Arts Tournament."
He thought, "Interesting..."
To think there was actually news he didn't know about. Expanding the Allen Network, he quickly pieced together the events of the past month. As it turned out, while he had been buried in artificial soul technology and Hub City affairs, King William of Aiselan had executed a move that could only be described as a masterpiece.
