Chapter 40

Lin Cheng, along with Eclair and Mengmeng, was enjoying the scenery along the way inside a rather luxurious private compartment, heading swiftly toward Magnolia—one of the few prosperous cities in the Kingdom of Fiore.

During this time, as time passed and the newspapers went on sale, the active hours of the crowd arrived, and Lin Cheng's Emotion Value erupted like a volcano that had been accumulating for a thousand years—once it burst forth, nothing could stop it.

From six o'clock departure to seven o'clock, Lin Cheng's Emotion Value rose by two hundred thousand, jumping directly from two hundred thousand to four hundred thousand.

At the same time, at seven o'clock, the newspapers that the major presses had long since prepared for printing began to be purchased by the gradually waking, increasingly active crowd, and the growth rate of Lin Cheng's Emotion Value began to increase further.

By around ten o'clock in the morning, Lin Cheng's Emotion Value had already reached four million.

By this point, the speed at which Lin Cheng's Emotion Value increased finally eased up a little, but it still maintained an income of around one million Emotion Value per hour.

After all, the population of the Kingdom of Fiore was a full eighteen million.

And Phantom Lord and Fairy Tail were both publicly recognized within the Kingdom of Fiore as the two strongest Mage guilds in the entire nation, now engaged in an all-out war.

The two strongest guilds were about to determine a true strongest.

The topics contained within this hardly need saying, let alone the even more explosive matter that followed—the president of Phantom Lord, a member of the Shengshi Society, being instantly killed by a 'nobody.'