Chapter 969 Sensation: Rain of Challenges


    The next day...


    Leaving his house this morning, Vicente faced a strange situation. Unlike the previous days, when he passed through the busy streets of this residential area with no one paying attention to him, today he came across a few nces in his direction.


    Some of the same people he sawing and going every day stared at him, as if they recognized him from somewhere.


    "Prisiche..."


    "Master?" She looked at him with the same smiling, avable expression as always. "Why are they looking at me like that?" He showed to her, while she ignored the surroundings.


    "Your fight against Disciple Xander has already reached 2.3 million views, master. Many people have seen your fight and will see it in the next few days." She imagined it was the reason for her master''s questioning.


    "Views?" Vicente stopped as he stared at her, open-mouthed. He hadn''t expected to hear that term while he was in a magical world where people could cultivate immortality!


    "Yes, besides broadcasting live matches, the Combat Center also makes a rey of fights avable to its subscribers. However, I don''t rmend that the master pay for the rey. Only live streaming gives you the chance to feel the fight and learn from it. The rey is merely illustrative and serves only as a visual memory of the matches."


    He understood, but was still worried. "Is there some kind of socialwork here? Where are these reproductions avable?" He asked.


    "Socialworks?" The term surprised her, but she imagined it was a Pris Realm quirk. "The reys are avable on the same equipment used to follow live fights. If you follow the step by step to turn off ''online'' mode and use ''offline'' mode, you can ess recordings of previous fights. But I warn the master that there are a few free reys. You can see up to thest 100 official fights of each rank. Also, ordinary consumers don''t have ess to old fights. Only well-positioned members of the Combat Center can ess old matches, and even they are not guaranteed to get such ess. Fights that are more than a year old are mostly excluded. Only a few special fights are kept, but for more information, you''ll have to go to the Combat Center, master."


    ''Still...'' Vicente closed his eyes and took a deep breath. If anyone with ess to that equipment he had bought with so few stone coins could see his fight, then the whole ''ind'' would soon know his existence.


    ''This is bad. It''s much worse than I imagined!''


    Amid his thoughts, he felt a hand touch one of his shoulders, making him wince slightly.


    Fortunately, when he turned his face and looked back, he saw only Larissa standing there. "You''re famous now..." Shemented as she looked at the nces in their direction.


    This world wasn''t Earth. Vicente is a powerful Archmage and few in the surroundings had cultivation superior to his. No one invaded his space or tried toe and talk to him. People merely watched him with interest, curious about the story of this powerful magician.


    "I didn''t imagine it would be like this," he said to his partner.


    "Neither did I... But seeing your magical configuration, there''s not much you can do. Stonewall, after all, is considered a sect of the right path. And Light Cay is considered a stronghold of the followers of the light and thew. So the idea of hiding your powers is not somon here."


    Vicente listened to her, but he wasn''t in the mood to consider the ''silly'' methods of this reality. "That''s a load of nonsense. The sect doesn''t rule without rivals. And they''ve revealed a point of attack by making it avable to the whole ''ind''. Why would they do that?"


    Prisiche had several answers that could defend her sect''s side. But before she could say anything, Larissa closed her eyes and said with a clever smile, "To control us?"


    Vicente clenched his fists in realization.


    She continued, "Few things are worse than an unknown enemy with a lot of potential. As much as each ascended is a great asset, each of us is a great danger if left unchecked. Stonewall and other Anicane forces may see us as their members, and have their rivals, but they won''t simply protect us from everything and worry only about the enemies they''ve known for millennia. Better to put ourselves in check, letting the enemies who want us dead know who we are, than to risk protecting ourselvespletely and end up losing uster...


    If we want security, we''ll probably have to give guarantees to the sect. So it makes sense for them to make this move."


    Larissa''s exnation was sensible. There was a risk in showing its disciples'' fights to the entire ''ind''. But it seemed like a good way to get people like her and Vicente to give up certain things in order to have the sect''s protection.


    Vicente sighed. Unfortunately, he had no choice but to ept all the fame he would have from now on, as well as the problems it would bring him.


    ''The leaders of this sect are clever. Either Ipromise with them, or they throw me to the lions. It really is a difficult situation to deal with.'' He opened his eyes and started walking again, heading towards his ns for today.


    "Speaking of which," Larissa gave him a peculiar look, following him. "How many challenges have you received?"


    "What do you mean?" He looked at her doubtfully.


    Sheughed bitterly when she heard his question in response to hers. "Ask your artificial intelligence." n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    "Prisiche?"


    "Master, you have some challenges for matches in the Combat Center. Would you like to ept one?" She asked innocently.


    Prisiche could check various information rted to her master, including epting challenges on his behalf. Every artificial intelligence in this ce could do this with Stonewall''s disciples, which was why Xander had so quickly epted Vicente''s challenge earlier.


    Vicente sensed a bad omen and asked, "How many challenges are avable now?"


    "45... Hmm, no 46, someone has just issued a new challenge."


    The challenges had to beunched directly from the Combat Center, but they could be epted from anywhere by the artificial intelligences connected to the sect.


    "Should I ept a challenge? You''ll have to fight twice more this month before being forced to fight again next month, master."


    Vicente was shocked by the number of challenges, while Larissa saw she had still underestimated how much the Outer Disciples wanted to challenge someone as monstrous as Vicente.


    Now that Vicente had shown what he was capable of, many people wanted the chance to defeat him and use him as a stepping stone to higher positions in the sect and on the ''ind''!