Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 793

Chapter 793: A Need For Changes
The island slowly creened into a proper horizontal position as it continued its descent, but Luna was still not able to make it slow down enough, and she knew that it would hit the water with enough force to cause a serious tsunami!

[We’ve got it!]

Arit’s voice came from the comms as she and all of the superhumans who could fly on the mainland headed straight for the bottom of the island and began to help Luna to slow its descent! With their help, it became a lot easier for Luna to handle the giant mass, and once it was close enough to the water, they all moved out of the way and allowed it to splash down into the water without any serious incident!

Mark landed on the ground close to where Megumi had landed and he released a small sigh as he looked around at all the trees and humans that had fallen to the ground after the Bishop stopped controlling them.

“We did it!”

A voice shouted from his side and Mark turned and took a step back as Megumi suddenly jumped up to hug him! Mark was surprised by the hug, but he was even more surprised by the giant smile on Megumi’s face as she laughed happily. Megumi knew that it wasn’t going to last, but for that moment, she was glad that she could express herself so well, and she wasn’t going to let it go to waste as she raised her sword in the air and released a shout of victory!

They had won the day.

…

The day after the fight, news channels and media outlets were abuzz with news about what had happened on the island of Oshima.

The scale of battle that happened on that island was beyond anything anyone could have imagined, leaving many to wonder if there was something else that was happening behind the scenes. The civilians hadn’t been told what sort of anima the superhumans were going to be facing in the tournament, so to them, seeing the Rook and Bishop didn’t appear too out of place. The only people who knew for a fact that something had gone seriously wrong in the tournament were the organizers who were in charge of making sure that everything went well.

Genshi Naruhito made sure that his office blocked every interview and investigation that the Japanese media were trying to do into what had happened on that island. People were very curious to know if this was what the Japanese superhuman alliance wanted all along, but with the refusals for an interview, people were left to speculate.

But that didn’t mean that people didn’t enjoy the tournament to its fullest. Right from the very start of the tournament when Mark and Megumi went at it on sight, till the end when they partnered up and fought against the enemy that was trying to destroy the island, the entire world was glued to their seats and watching like their lives depended on that moment! It was something that no one could begin to describe unless you were there to see it for yourself. The sheer destructive ability and skill that was on display in that fight was beyond normal!

The question of who was the strongest in the world was something that people are still arguing about, even today, but whenever they see that video, the entire argument falls away and they realize that there is no need for such a comparison when judging humans that were capable of such feats of power. It was better to just appreciate the fact that they were both on the side of the humans.

The death toll in the tournament was much higher than the organizers thought it would be. With the introduction of unrecorded anima and the transformation of various superhumans into anima who were then killed by the other superhumans, it was one of the highest recorded death tolls in all the tournaments that the Superhuman Alliance had ever organized. The actual number of deaths recorded in the tournament was never released to the public due to the need to preserve the Superhuman Alliance’s integrity, but it was estimated that a record fifty-two superhumans out of the hundred that participated in the tournament ended up being killed by the ensuing battle.

But the biggest issue that the entire world was facing immediately after the tournament wasn’t any of the uncalculable situations. Instead, it was the fact that even after the tournament was assumed to be over with the most dangerous anima being killed, there was a need to announce who the winner of the tournament was.

But the way things turned out, people found it difficult to accept the situation for what it was. In the midst of all the tough battles and incalculable losses taking place around the battlefield, there was one country that didn’t forget the purpose of the tournament and continued to collect crystals from anima without fail.

Nigeria ended up with more than fifty crystals.

Kemi was also a member of Mark’s guild, but unlike the other members who sacrificed the tournament and went on to help Mark, Kemi did her part to help while also telling her team members not to forget to collect as many crystals as possible from dead anima.

So at the end of the tournament, she and her group ended up having the most crystals. The rules of the tournament were clear and there was no way they could change the rules at the end of the tournament just because the people they wanted to win didn’t win. So the Nigerians were crowned as the winners.

This left a strange sense of disappointment in the hearts of most citizens around the world when they realized that none of the powerhouses they had bet their money on won the tournament in the end.

Everyone thought that either America, Germany, or even China would come out on top in the tournament due to the sheer number of powerful superhumans that were representing their teams, but these superhumans didn’t even try to win the tournament, and many of them, like Mark, ended up having no crystals at all because they just didn’t care about harvesting the crystals after killing an anima.

In fact, one of the reasons why the three teams that came out on top won at all was because there was an abundance of anima killed by Mark and Megumi that was never touched after they killed them. Harvesting the crystals from these anima and then presenting them at the end of the tournament allowed them to come out on top.

As for Mark and the other members of his guild who were present in the fight against the Bishop and Rook, there was no real dissatisfaction with how the tournament turned out. Mark never entered the tournament because he wanted to win; he simply wanted to find out what was happening in Japan and stop it. Now that Mark had done that, he didn’t care for anything else!

The superhumans that participated in the tournament were given first-class treatment after their return to the mainland of Japan. Thousands of civilians were present at the airport where they landed, and it was difficult for them to even move through the crowds to get to the other side.

Mark ignored many of the people around him as he made his way through with Arit.

After everything that happened on that island, Mark realized that he had been lax in taking care of the issues around the world. How did Mark not know that the superhumans in Russia and Japan were compromised this much? Not only did the superhumans transform themselves into anima, but from what Mark heard from the Bishop and Rook, Mark was certain that there were more anima lords present in Russia.

Did this mean that the Russian president was allowing so many anima to roam freely in his country? Is that the reason why the president refused to allow the Vanguard guild to enter his country? Was he taking sides with the anima instead of the humans?

Mark really didn’t want to believe it, but there was no other way to explain what they had just fought against. The other aspect of Mark’s concerns was Japan. When Mark made a link with Megumi earlier, he was able to see her memories and the things that she had seen, and in there, Mark saw that one of the Japanese superhumans in the tournament had turned into an anima and killed Megumi’s brother.

Doesn’t that mean that Japan was also just as compromised as Russia? Mark needed to get to the bottom of all this, and the only way to do that was to talk to the one person that Mark knew could never be compromised in this country.

Mark made his way towards the Japanese Superhuman Alliance building.