章節 403: Picking Sides

"Have you heard the news?"

"It is broadcast worldwide—do you think we could not hear it?"

"We received the news from our Transmission Talismans too. Unless you live under the rock, you will know about it."

"So, what do you think about it?"

The conversation ceased the moment the question was uttered. Everyone turned their eyes to the person who said the question and hummed to themselves.

Sylvia, the one who asked the question, looked at her party silently. She and her party didn't know Basil closely: but no matter how they thought about it, the news about him was hard to swallow.

As ambitious as he was, they were sure Basil wasn't the type of person who cared much about authority. Even after becoming the Kingdom's Golden Apple, he didn't do many things with the amount of authority he held.