The number of viewers skyrocketed to unprecedented levels immediately after the conditions were issued as news outlets live updated on many of their subscription tiers, garnered wild interest among the galactic populace. Within the window of the Special Rules & Conditions stage, the number reached nearly two hundred billion!
While this number, when compared to the galactic total population, was almost insignificant in comparison, those watching consisted of almost exclusively Ascended beings! Roughly 99% had ascended on an existential level! Those who held majority authority on the level of planetary, starfield, stellar region, and galactic zone were spectating without fail!
The already hot topic of the foreigner erupted further in the homes, palaces, pavilions, sects, academies, institutes, and towers across the galaxyscape. Accompanying his rampantly discussed name were Shadow Veil, Seers of the Night, Zenith Creation Tower, and Zenith Refinement Tower!