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This notification didn't just resound in Felix's mind but also in the sky above his position, making every player hear it and see it even from tens of kilometers.

The withdrawing gloomy clouds made it possible.

The instant the Kraken was slain, there was no point for the storm to remain anymore.

"Am I tripping or did I just hear that Landlord has slain the Kraken?"

Baffled and somewhat stunned, Golden Elixir traded glances with the players who were hiding with him inside his shell.

Looking at their dumbfounded and shocked expressions, he felt his heart skip a beat at the thought that they heard it as well.

"I..I heard it as well."

"Same!"

"Is this a prank by Lisa to drag us outside of the shell?"

Even the player who said so didn't believe himself! However, in his eyes, it was more f*cking believable than Felix slaying the Kraken solo!

This kind of conversation was being carried inside the shell of every surviving Turtle.

All of them had believed that the Kraken had given up after not being able to destroy the shell and was throwing a tantrum on his own.

They even joked about it in the past two minutes after knowing that they would survive the game!

Only now, did they understand that while they were cowering in fear, Felix was going at it alone against the Kraken!

But even after hearing the notification and knowing that he truly did it! They didn't dare to believe it!

Why would they?

In their eyes, even their entire Alliance was useless against the Kraken so how could a 1st stage bloodliner do what they couldn't achieve?!

Accepting it was the same as accepting that they were worse as a group than a single player. Their pride refused to acknowledge that at all cost!

"There must have been some sort of a loophole that he used."

"Stop discussing it. Let's just look for ourselves!"

Just as the players attempted to jump outside of the shell, their bodies started breaking into light particles, marking the end of the game!

"Whatever, this is even better." Golden Elixir murmured one last time before his body completely broke apart, "If I don't see it with my own eyes, I won't believe it no matter what."

His wish was fulfilled sooner than he expected as the instant he opened his eyes again, He was met with a harmonized chant that deafened his ears and the remaining players.

"THE KRAKEN SLAYER!!"..."THE KRAKEN SLAYER!!"..."THE KRAKEN SLAYER!!"

Dumbstruck and speechless, the players all stared with eyes bulging out of their sockets at their loyal fans and supporters, chanting something unrelated to them!

This was a huge slap to their self-esteem as it never happened to them before!

But after seeing Felix standing all alone in the center of the stadium with his clothes all bloody and dirty, they knew that their worst fears had manifested before them.

Those who were still in denial like Golden Elixir simply lifted their heads and gazed at the highlight of Felix delivering the last strike against the Kraken.

The instant their eyes landed on the screen, it refused to leave it.

No one cared about them in this significant moment even their fans were too heated by the last battle to bother comforting their idols like they always do after they lose a game.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!" Lisa spread her tiny arms widely as she screamed with a passionate voice, "When I proposed this impossible challenge to the Alliance, I expected nothing less but failure!"

"Yet!" She extended her hand at Felix, who was shamelessly taking advantage of the players' daze to buy the three artifacts, and continued, "Landlord had proved to me that nothing was impossible! A peak 1st stage bloodliner had managed to do something that had never been done before in all of the years that I have been living!"

The spectators and especially Felix's fans all started clamoring noisily, agreeing to what she just said.

All of them were veteran spectators with hundreds of games under their belts.

They watched so many different formats, games, players, scenes, plays, dramas, even epic fights and moments.

Yet, nothing had come close to seeing with their own eyes a human just like them, taking down a behemoth that was hundreds of times its size!

The cherry on top was the fact that the Kraken was still unkillable in the K-Oceania Planet to this day even though hundreds of hunting parties and squads had attempted to do so.

Although the difference between the real Kraken and this one was unfathomable, they were still emotional about Felix's successfully slaying it.

"If I didn't already give away my MVP title, I would have certainly and without a shred of doubt hand it to Mr. Landlord for this phenomenal display."

Lisa sighed in dejection after saying so. She wasn't acting or anything as she truly meant every word that she said.

In her eyes, it was a total waste for Felix to not receive an MVP title and a nomination letter to enter the Human's branch SG Hall of Fame.

His gameplay from beginning to the end had been nothing but phenomenal.

She knew that when the game hits the media and everyone watches the highlights on the VRVideos platform, hell was going to break loose.

In her mind, the last plunging scene where Felix slew the Kraken was going to be part of the top ten highlights in gold rank for the entire year!

Everyone who made it into that list was either a Hall of Fame player or at least nominated to be one!

Alas, the MVP title could be given just once per each MC. That's why it was called The Most Valuable Player Title.

It simply meant that the MC who gave it truly appreciated the player and found that he was the most valuable player throughout his career.

Since this title was a big deal, it was always accompanied by a recommendation letter or a nomination to enter the SG Hall of Fame and get immortalized for eternity.Naturally, the names of the MCs were going to be written right under the player in the Hall of Fame, making them eternal as well!

Booo! Booo!!...

Leader Emma and the rest of Felix's fans had already started booing after being reminded of the MVP title.

They didn't know who they were booing for but they just wanted to do it so they could vent their aggrievance at the news. Especially, when they saw that Felix had been giving it his all in every game he was placed at.

While he didn't do too many extraordinary plays in Death Race, he excelled in the last two and each one of them, he got robbed hard!

Zoe didn't want to give him the MVP title due to her grudge and Meliodas had already given it to another player.

Now, he was going to get robbed again due to the same reason.

The fans couldn't have that!

Meanwhile, Felix wasn't that bothered by not receiving the Title.

He might be quite vexed by his unluckiness but he didn't show any of that to the rest as he simply carried on shamelessly robbing the Prize Pool clean of the best items while the players were absent-minded.

However, his finger soon froze in its place after hearing Lisa shout, "I don't regret giving my previous MVP title to Mrs. Frostbite but I know that I will regret it dearly if Landlord did not receive the proper treatment and award that he deserves in this game! Hence..."

Everyone held their breaths either in anticipation or disbelief, knowing what she was about to do but not having the guts to hear her say it.

Alas, Lisa went for it and said excitedly, "I will nominate Landlord to the SG Awards Committee to contest against other nominees for the best Low-Elo Player of the year in the Milky Way Galaxy!!"

WHOOOAHHH!!!

An uproar had risen the moment Lisa finished her piece as both the spectators and the players were stirred one way or another.

How could they not when they knew that Lisa had just used her one life-time nomination to give Felix's an honor even above being in the Hall of Fame?!

Although it was just a nomination and not giving him the award itself, they knew that just to earn it from the stingy hands of the MCs was an achievement on its own!

Every MC was holding into this nomination chance so when they get promoted to mid-elo or luckily high-elo, they would still have something to offer to those big dogs.

Lisa had just done the opposite without any care in the world!

Clap Clap!...

After the viewers regained their wits, they gave Felix the standing ovation that he deserved just like the nomination.

While some players were still feeling like they were in a dream and none of this shit was making sense, others had already come to terms with the reality and started applauding respectfully for Felix.

"Well played, Landlord." Miss. Mikasa bowed slightly in Felix's direction and said, "And thank you for the timely help. I wouldn't have lived if it wasn't for your interference."

Upon hearing so, Felix broke from his slight daze as he never expected to be nominated to anything due to his unfriendly relation with the MCs.

After all, he didn't want to even give them an interview.

Why the hell would anyone bother doing him a favor?

'She is truly a mad witch that doesn't give a crap about anything.' Felix chuckled in his mind and refocused on Miss. Misaka who was still bowing slightly in appreciation.

"Don't mention it." Felix waved his hand dismissively and turned around to his fans.

He showed them a faint smile and said, "Thank you for your continuous support."

Before his fans could even respond, Felix started waving his hand at them while breaking into light particles.

Nomination or not, he wasn't planning on staying any longer since he needed to join the PPFT Gathering and start selling his prize pool items as fast as possible!

The more time he wasted, the lesser the stock would be when he displays his prize pool.

"WAAAIIIT!!!"

Mortified by the sight of Felix's departure, Lisa shouted loudly while jumping down from her commentary platform without using any fanciful method.

Thud!

Alas, by the time she made it to the ground, Felix was already drifting in the air, leaving behind him a heated stadium, unwilling players, appreciative players, and finally a highlight that would be etched in the memories of those who saw it and those who were about to!

"LAAANDLOOOORD! YOU INTROVENT PRICK!"

In the end, Lisa could only cry her misery out loud, feeling like she just got cheated out of her nomination.Five minutes later, In The Androxa Capital...

Felix was already in his car, driving towards the Teleportation Company. He didn't even look at his earnings as he wanted to do so when he secured a spot in the PPFT market.

He knew that he might end up queuing up for quite a long time if he was late.

Felix gave up on his usual shower and nap to avoid that!

He realized that he f*cked up when he didn't join the game inside his room in the Ivy League City! If he did so, he would have reached the market in a heartbeat.

Alas, he totally forgot about it since he got rushed by Asna to play cards before the game started.

...

While Felix was speeding like a madman on the road, Princess Bird and her father conversed about him in the VIP room.

"What did you find father?" Princess Bird asked softly while peeking from behind her father's head at the holograms that appeared and disappeared in a heartbeat.

"Be quiet!" The chief shushed her down and carried on his research.

Currently, he wasn't looking for Felix but the bloodline library that he had been gathering for ages now.

He took great pride in it since only a couple of bloodlines had not been registered in it.

That made him be known as the Bloodline Collector within his circle. Yet, no matter how much he searched, he couldn't find a single bloodline that possessed Felix's *Size Manipulation* Ability.

He even went and searched through legendary tier 7 bloodlines and the only thing he found was *Enlargement* ability that allows the user to grow in size only.

After another minute of search, the chief had finally raised his hands in defeat unwillingly.

"To be called the bloodline collector yet not find even a single ability that lad had used, sigh...Those fogies are going to have a blast mocking me." The chief mumbled to himself in annoyance while waving his hand at the holograms.

Ring Ring!

"Speak of the devil." The chief smiled bitterly after seeing that he was being invited to a group call.

The moment Princess Bird heard the ringing sound, she stopped moving and breathing, acting as a static tree.

"Alicia, go play somewhere else." The chief shooed Princess Bird with his hand but she didn't respond.

After turning around and seeing her behavior, his eyebrows twitched in vexation, "You wanna listen that badly?"

Alas, Princess Bird still didn't react and continued her static act.

"Fine." The Chief pressed on accept while threatening, "You better remain like that without interfering."

Princess Bird's eyes brightened up in delight while focusing on the emerging four holograms in front of the Chief.

Each hologram was displaying a close-up face of a person. There were three men and one woman. All of them appeared charming and quite otherworldly, unlike the Chief who seemed natural.

"Old Bird, we were just discussing that lad's abnormal abilities and bloodlines." The man in the center sighed and said, "We couldn't find anything from our data."

"We hope that you share with us your findings from your collection." Another one requested.

The Chief lip's twitched at the request but he still came clean and told them that he found nothing as well.

Just as the Chief expected, he didn't escape getting ridiculed and mocked after his response by those three men.

However, the woman didn't let the farce carry on for long as she said coldly. "Stop wasting my time."

She narrowed her eyes and informed them solemnly, "Make a decision fast on how to deal with this situation. The Royal family is going to receive the news soon. Plus, the other empires and kingdoms are also going to send their people to locate Landlord."

The mood got pretty tense after hearing so. The Chief and the three men knew that currently, everyone was interested in finding out the source of Felix's abnormality.

However, they were worried only about the Mariana Royal family making a move. As for the hundred or so of the kingdoms in Mariana's territory?

They were not considered a legitimate Kingdom in their eyes or worthy enough to be placed in the same breath as them.

Even if by chance one of them managed to locate Felix luckily, they would hand him to either them or the Royal family if they still wanted their kingdom to carry on its operations.

Their thoughts weren't based on arrogance or pride but simply due to their kingdoms' absolute strength over the rest.

When their kingdoms got combined, even the Mariana Royal Family needed to show proper respect.

Hence, they were worried only about the Royal Family getting to Felix first or the 'source' behind him.

Even the Empires and other forces outside of Mariana's Empire territory weren't much of a threat since their network could never be as good as them in their territory.

So it might look like every power was targeting Felix, it was in fact just those three superpowers and the Royal Family.

"Let's hasten our plans then." The Chief asked, "What do we know about him so far?"

"We know that lad must be somewhere in the Mariana empire since his first three games were played in this region."

"We also know that he barely interacts with anyone as Landlord and he keeps distance from everyone."

"We know that he had joined Silver Hammer school in three months before and Blade Splitters School last month."

"We...give me a moment." The man in the middle, who was reading from the list, paused for a couple of seconds and continued, "My subordinates had just brought new intel. It seems like Landlord is sharing an apartment in the Ivy League city with three players. Two males and one female."

"Oh? That's quite good." The Chief asked, "Can we buy them?"It is possible since no one will say no to free money, but..." The man shook his head, "The report says that he is barely in the apartment and when he is in it, he just greets them and locks himself in his room."

"I see." The Chief rubbed his chin and said, "Just buy them anyways and add more coins if they are willing to attempt and befriend him. Who knows, he might let out some info about his real persona by some chance."

"My thoughts exactly." The woman nodded her head.

After so, the man carried on his report which was quite useless as that information had zero connection with Felix's real persona.

Cough!

Princess Bird who was listening to their conversation without breathing out loud, couldn't help but cough lightly and interrupt the man from his report.

She couldn't handle it anymore as his information was even worse than what she collected in the past six months.

"Can I say something?" She asked softly while fiddling with her clothes.

"Didn't I tell you to remain silent?" The Chief instantly scolded her, "Now be quiet or I will kick you out of the room!"

"Now now, Sir. Maganda, no need to be so uptight." The woman said gently, "Go ahead little Bird, say your piece."

"Thank you Aunty." Princess Bird smiled smugly at her vexed father and said, "I have been using my personal money and subordinates to try and locate Landlord in the past 6 months."

Everyone got intrigued after hearing so. They understood that every information they currently possessed was gotten with minimum effort and resources.

They didn't commit to man hunting Felix right at the start since they knew that wasn't going to be easy in the slightest.

Difficult in the sense, hundreds of millions to even billions were needed to gain a tiny piece of useful information that could lead to his location.

For example, figuring out who was responsible for delivering to Felix and bribing him to give them a piece of indirect information without breaking the delivery contract.

That could be done quite easily.

One of the methods was simply following the deliveryman's path during his journey. Another was requesting the deliveryman take a picture of planet Earth, city, town...etc, and post them on his social media feed.

There were many other ingenious ways to go around the standard contract that was signed before each delivery.

But a hefty amount of coins needed to be paid and Felix wasn't yet on those seniors' radar since the only abnormality he had was his multiple inducements.

They wanted to see first if he lucked out on a singular bloodline that was capable of doing so, or he had a method to increase inducements in all of his other bloodlines before they make a decision.

But, Felix went on and showed them another abnormal bloodline from another element.

Only now were they fully committed to the chase and they were planning on using whatever resources they had to get him!

This meant Princess Bird was actually the only one committed to finding Felix since they separated after the Shuffle Maze!

She was ahead 6 months than any other superpower!

The first words that came out of her lips had already shown that she wasn't messing around, "I have already found five primary suspects after eliminating 911 candidates."

She crossed her arms above her chest and said with a smug smile, "I am confident that Landlord is 70% one of those five bloodliners!"

The seniors went quiet for a second before starting to rain on Princess Birds with praises on her astonishing work.

They didn't expect that the Maganda Chief's youngest daughter who's known for being playful and useless actually to provide them with such a valuable piece of information!Five primary suspects already?

Hell, they knew that for others to get those five, they needed at least 8 months and almost a 3 billion SC to reach them from the massive numbers of bloodliners there were in the empire!

After all, they needed to eliminate every suspect by paying bribes! How long and much was that going to cost them?!

"Haha, little Bird is truly a talented tracker."

"Well of course!" Princess Bird bragged with her chin pointed at the sky, "I have been tracking all of the bastards' players who made fun of my height in the last couple of years. No one escaped my grasp and Landlord isn't going to escape either!"

'But he never called you short.' The Chief wanted to say so out loud, but seeing his daughter enjoying the praises of his allies, he didn't want to ruin her moment.

After she basked enough, Princess Bird snapped her finger and five holograms had been manifested in front of the seniors.

Each hologram had full names, UVR IDs, and details underneath it. Two of them even had a picture of the suspect!

Princess Bird pointed her finger at the last hologram on the right side and informed, "This bloodliner is called Aladdin Musk, he is currently residing on a planet that was 90% sand and 10% water."

"He was my 5th suspect since he was using the legendary Brown Copperhead Serpent as his bloodline and had utilized only three inducements that were similar to Landlord."

She pressed on his details and they read them by themselves.

"So, Acid, paralyze, and sleepiness inducements. That's a good connection." The woman commentated.

"Yes, but it wasn't enough to place him as my first suspect since he had only shown poison bombs, a poisonous aura, and finally infrared vision. The rest of the abilities, he never showed them before. However..."

She smirked and pointed at the planet's environment, "But now that we have seen that Landlord was a dual Elementalist with a sand element, it is highly likely that it might be him."

The seniors glanced at the golden planet and then at Aladdin's face. "Old Bird, we will leave you this one to handle."

Chief Maganda nodded his head in agreement and they all focused back on Princess Bird who was pointing at the next suspect.

Like the first one, he was suspected since he had shown multiple inducements and abilities closely related to Felix.

However, his body shape was wholly different than Felix's as he was at least two meters in height.

Since it was impossible to change height in the SG, he was placed in the 4th suspect list.

He wasn't removed from the list because of potions that could modify the user's shape.

This meant this man might have drunk one before participating in the games to make it even more difficult to suspect him.

Felix could have done the same but the side effects of those potions were too much to bear. In the worst cases, the effect could stay permanently.

Since it was the doing of a potion, the bones weren't going to be as tough as they used to.

Felix wanted none of that shit.

But the seniors and Princess still had considered it.

After a while, Princess Bird had finished her presentation of each suspect.

Unsurprisingly, none of them were Felix!

Heck, Felix probably didn't even make it to the candidates' list since whatever he had shown in real life wasn't streamed in the UVR!

How was Princess Bird supposed to find him when even planet Earth wasn't known yet in the UVR?

If the Earthling's team had played their game earlier, they might have left a tiny mark in the Alexender's Kingdom search engine.

But at this moment? Only the Gama Organization and some non-natives knew about their existence.

Even if someone had filmed Felix using his abilities and posted them in the UVR, those videos would be almost invisible with all of the infinite data shared in the UVR each second.

If, this was a big if! Princess Bird managed to find the posted video somehow and watch it, she would only place him in the candidate list and get rid of him later.

That's because, Felix had shown only poison bombs, superstrength, paralyze inducement that had a relation with Landlord.

This was even worse than the 5th primary suspect!

Not mentioning, Felix's use of hypotension inducement that he never showed as Landlord or, Poison Pillars, Poison Absorption, and lastly semi-morphing!

He was a whole different person compared to Landlord and even a retard could see it unless they would assume right off the bat that Felix had more than 6 abilities.

Naturally, all of this was merely hypothetically speaking since Princess Bird hadn't even noticed Felix or planet Earth yet.

Her full focus was placed on those innocent five suspects who were about to be experience hell due to Felix unbeknownst to them.

"I still haven't sent anyone to get them since my father refused to entertain my research results before." Princess Bird humphed with a displeased expression but still carried on, "Three of those suspects are living in advanced planets which were under the rulership of the Royal Family and the other two were under either a kingdom or still holding into their independency with the SGAlliance."

"It's good that you didn't make a move." The woman sighed in relief, "You might have just alerted them and still wouldn't capture them."

"I know." Princess Bird glared at her abashed father, "If you listened to me, we would have made a move even earlier."

"Cough, I think your sisters are calling for you."

Not wanting to get scolded by his own daughter in front of his allies, The Chief swiftly snapped his finger and teleported Princess Bird outside of the room.

"Youuu!! I will tell mom about th..!"

Princess Bird's furious voice resounded one last time before she completely disappeared from the room.

"Cough, where were we?" Indifferent to the scornful looks he was getting, The Chief merely asked while scratching his beard-less chin.

Thankfully, they were discussing a serious matter. Thus, the seniors continued their discussion where they left it.

It was splitting the five primary suspects each for one of them to take care of.

"We need our operations to be discreet and also friendly." The Chief said, "We want the source behind that lad and not him per se. So, we can't make it difficult for him lest we anger the person or the background behind him that was responsible for his abnormality."

"Agreed."

"Soft approach at the start would be beneficial."

"Check first if he had that tail mutation." The woman reminded them, "After all, little Bird's information is quite outdated."

"That goes without saying."

Everyone agreed to the notion and dove into the primary problem they were going to face...The Royal Family!

"It's going to be tough to extract those three bloodliners from planets belonging to the Royal Family." The man in the left sighed, "We need to make a move without exposing that our Alliance is behind it, lest the Royal family end up protecting them at all cost."

The Chief and the rest of the men supported his claim, unlike the woman who just sneered at their reaction, "Are we going to continue acting like rats? They already know that we want them dead to change the rulership of the empire, so what's the point of this needless wait?"

"Here we go again." The man in the center sighed and requested, "Chief you take care of it this time."

The Chief smiled bitterly and repeated for the thousand times to this stubborn woman who only had battles and wars in her mind, "Zosia, can you drop this subject already? Our alliance might seem indeed strong enough to contest against the waned Royal Family. But in reality, they are simply hiding their strength deeply waiting for us to make a move rashly and get rid of us all at once."

"I don't know about the rest, but I don't trust your Eagle Foresight." She snorted, "It was working 5% of the time 95% it was just feeding you utter bullshit."

"I don't care if you believe what I saw in the future or not, but this alliance is based on votes." The Chief shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand in the air, "Please raise your hand if you think it is the best move to delay the declaration of war until 15 years later or so."

Unsurprisingly, everyone raised their hands but Zosia, who was left gritting her teeth in anger. "All of you are useless!"

The Chief eyed her solemnly and said, "I understand your reason for hating the Royal Family, but please understand that we allied not to fulfill your revenge but to bring the Mariana Empire's Glory!"

"A glory that was stripped at the hands of those filthy useless royal generation!" The man in the middle finished the sentence for him with a fuming tone.

Upon hearing so, Zosia calmed down a bit but she still asked with a tingle of weariness in her tone, "Then when? I have been waiting for more than 80 years and I can't hold it any longer."

The Chief smiled faintly with a hidden glint and said, "Didn't we just get the opportunity that we were waiting for?"

Zosia's eyes brightened up after hearing so. She instantly understood that he was referring to Felix!

"If we managed to get the source that made those strong bloodlines, we might have a chance to do a lot of things and reach new heights!"

The seniors nodded their heads in anticipation of that day. But for now, they were still required to locate Felix as fast as possible and they needed to utilize every method possible instead of just using Princess Bird's list.

Hence, Zosia proposed, "I suggest that we contact Landlord privately and see if he is willing to meet with us in the UVR."

"Alright, each to his own on this matter." The man in the center smirked faintly, "I will be inviting him to the royal palace of my kingdom and see if one of my daughters caught his eyes."

"Hahaha, old geezer going straight for the oldest trick in the book." The Chief chuckled and said, "You try that and I will be requesting my daughter to invite him into the Galactical Yearly Auction Event as my +1. Hopefully, he agrees."

"Oh? It might actually work." Zosia affirmed, "That event is well sought for by everyone in the Galaxy and if Landlord didn't have any other method to obtain an invitation link, he would almost certainly accept it."

The senior on the left hologram nodded his head and said, "Let's start planning on how to buy him over. We don't have much time before the event starts."

Upon hearing so, the seniors got into a discussion while the Chief had sent a message to his daughter, requesting her to send an email to Felix.

He decided to use his daughter since she had some connection with Felix and it wouldn't appear as weird as a random invitation from a total stranger like him.

Naturally, he made sure that Felix knew that the invitation was actually from him.

After receiving the email from his grumpy daughter and reading it softly, he nodded his head in satisfaction and told his daughter to send it. Then he joined the ongoing discussion with the rest.