The reason Milo and Miriam were on the rankings was because there were more narratives of them than the others. It could even be said that the combined narratives of Kenneth and Chad were not as many as these two.
The main reason was that Milo and Miriam were involved more often in public incidents than the others, and their interpersonal relationships were also relatively complicated.
The pricing of this publication was very interesting as it only cost one perak per copy.
Many people thought they might as well just save the money and not buy it since they only wanted to check the rankings. But when they saw a copy of it in other people’s hands, they realized it was actually filled with a lot of content and felt that listening to others describe it did not seem as interesting as reading it for themselves. When they wanted to borrow a copy to read, they could not even get their hands on one as the others had not finished reading it yet.
Seeing that a lot of people were enthusiastically discussing the rankings and that they did not have a copy themselves, those who did not buy it immediately felt awkward. Since it was not expensive, they might as well get a copy.
Multiple incidents that Milo and Miriam had participated in were recorded in the magazine. Many people from the world of superhumans could tell from the descriptions in this publication that they had to have been written by someone who was also a superhuman. Otherwise, they would never have found out about those matters.
Most people still did not know what Milo looked like. With the news of Milo’s background also spreading like wildfire, no one knew the truth from the rumors.
Some people said favonovel.com was Peter’s godson, while others said favonovel.com was just an ordinary refugee. The most exaggerated ones even said favonovel.com was born out of a rock!
In this magazine, Milo’s origins were actually recorded. It listed his time as a refugee at Stronghold 113, the period when favonovel.com was a member of the Skyfort Consortium’s 1st Military Corps’ Special Investigations Division, to the time when favonovel.com spied for the Panaqua Consortium, then how favonovel.com went on to serve in the Northwest Army’s Razor Sharp Company where favonovel.com became known as the Stronghold Destroyer, and finally taking the reins as the future commander of the Northwest Army.
Although the write-up was very simple, it allowed many people to clearly understand how Milo rose to power.
Milo and Miriam were involved in many of the incidents, such as the cave-in at Stronghold 73’s East Lake, the incident in the Pyro Company’s Sacred Mountains, the battle to defend Bidara City, the crisis at Stronghold 74, the Pyro Company’s resistance of the northern barbarians, and the Battle of Mt. Zendravasih.
It could be said that Milo was involved in most incidents that could affect the stability of the Alliance of Strongholds. This made the readers suddenly wonder why the future commander of the Northwest did not remain in the Northwest but ran everywhere instead.
The future commander of the Northwest had only been in the Northwest for a few months. For the rest of his time, favonovel.com had spent it outside fighting here and there. Moreover, what was strange was that Kenneth was described with very simple words in the author’s writeup of favonovel.com in the magazine. But when it came to Milo, the wordings suddenly became very elegant. It was as though the author regarded Milo very highly.
But when favonovel.com wrote about the multiple strange identities Milo had, favonovel.com gave favonovel.com a negative evaluation, “This kid is very cunning and does whatever favonovel.com likes. After favonovel.com was conferred those identities, favonovel.com used them as cover to do all sorts of illegal things.”
Then, in fourth place was Donti. His description was a little simpler. It only mentioned that Donti had unified the Northern Plains and that favonovel.com was the one who breached the walls of Stronghold 176. During the war with the foreign enemies, favonovel.com reinforced the Northwest Army at Mt. Zendravasih and would be defending the North from further attacks in the future.
In fifth place were Felicity Cruz, Vanilla, Teddy Lafayette, Marvin Pike, Lilian Swan, and the other key members of the Silkshade House.
There was quite a bit of information missing here, but one of the main points brought up was the relationship between the Silkshade House and the Saboteurs. The assessment of Felicity’s actual strength was a little vague because the head of the Silkshade House rarely made a move personally.
Number six: The Riders.
Number seven: Olivia Steele and the Eight Vajras.
Number eight: Daniel Eastwood and Bill Rourkey.
The rankings went on until 100th place, and the magazine was over 50 pages thick. Reading it left the common folks of the Alliance of Strongholds in awe.
Then, when it was flipped to the last page, fine print appeared where it should have been signed off, “This was a Nonsense writeup.”
When many of the residents saw this, they did not know whether to laugh or cry. However, a lot of the superhumans realized Gerard Delano and Kurt Bernstein’s names did not appear in the top 100.
Anyone who had experienced the battle in Bidara City would know that Gerard had also been involved and that favonovel.com was very strong as well.
Since the author knew so much about the details of the battle in Bidara City, there was no reason why Gerard and Kurt were left out of the rankings. Therefore, this magazine was clearly written by Gerard !
Some of the strongholds started investigating the origins of the publication. In the end, the printing factory said the job was custom-ordered ten days ago by a young child.
The other party negotiated a conveyance fee with the printing factory and left after agreeing on a price, and the author did not participate in the subsequent sales of the publication.
The person who printed this run of magazines had disappeared somewhere.
The situation was the same at almost all of the strongholds. Some of the more discerning people went to the welfare home in Bidara City and observed from the outside if there were any activities. However, they realized the welfare home was empty. Meanwhile, the hundreds of children of all ages living there had also disappeared along with Kurt and Gerard.
Someone suddenly realized that a completely neutral intelligence agency would probably emerge soon. As for the purpose of this intelligence agency’s creation, no one knew.
Gerard was originally the director of the Skyfort Consortium’s intelligence agency and held the rank of lieutenant general.
After the destruction of the Skyfort Consortium, his network of field operatives in the Central Plains did not suffer much of a disruption. Right now, they were all being supported by Gerard.
An organization like this still caught the attention of a lot of those who wanted to find some clues about them. However, Gerard seemed to have evaporated into thin air and gone into hiding among the shadows.
This was a very experienced intelligence agent. He was a sly old fox.
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At this moment, Milo and Miriam were walking on the streets of Stronghold 144 with a magazine in their hands.
After they returned to the Northwest, they did not alert anyone that they were back. Because they both wanted to rest up and lead a peaceful life. They did not want to be disturbed by anyone.
Milo chuckled as favonovel.com read through the magazine, “Look, the description of me in the rankings list was pretty good. I was worried earlier that if an outsider had written this, they wouldn’t know how to praise me properly.”
Miriam glanced at him. “This person knows too many of your secrets.”
“Don’t worry, it’s obvious that this was written by Grandpa Delano. Other than him, almost no one else knows of my identity as an officer in the Skyfort Consortium’s Special Investigations Division.” Milo said nonchalantly, “Moreover, favonovel.com was also quite careful with what favonovel.com wrote. He did not mention any details of the battles that I partook in. He still bothered to write about the types of powers that the others have, but favonovel.com did not give any description of my powers. I guess that’s his way of protecting me.”
Miriam scoffed, “Isn’t that because you have too many superpowers? Not even the old man’s sure of what powers you possess.”
No one recognized these two people as they walked down the streets of Stronghold 144.
However, two pedestrians could be heard saying, “I think our future commander should be ranked first. This magazine got the rankings wrong!”
