"Go on."
"Eclipse replaces Runewoven in the competition standings effective immediately. All accumulated points transfer. Lineup changes are locked, though, so you can’t swap in any new fighters." She swiped through the ruling on her tablet. "It’s cosmetic, basically. Same team, same points, new name on the board."
"Perfect. That’s all I wanted."
They walked.
Kira and Rika had been right about one thing. His life had changed drastically overnight, and the time and energy he used to pour into editing thumbnails at two in the morning was now better spent elsewhere.
The twins had been hired that same night, becoming the dedicated media personnel and personal assistants for Valhalla’s Sinners.
Seemingly they’d split the workload between themselves with the efficiency of two people who’d been dividing tasks since the womb.
Kira shadowed Kaiden like a secretary while Rika stayed with the girls.
The guild hall was different now.
Kaiden had been moving through this building since the competition began. The hallways were the same. The doors were the same. But the people in them had changed overnight, and so had the way they looked at him.
A group of young fighters rounded the corner ahead. Two men and a woman, all in their early twenties, all wearing the new Eclipse insignia on their gear. They saw Kaiden and their conversation stopped.
"Good morning, Guild Leader," the woman said. She was trying very hard to sound casual and succeeding about as well as someone could while making eye contact with the son of the Shadow Monarch.
"Morning." Kaiden nodded as he passed.
The two men bowed their heads. One of them was visibly starstruck. They pressed against the wall to give him room.
Kira grinned but said nothing.
It was still strange. The streamer who’d built a following by flirting with his girlfriends on camera and making fun variety content was now the guild leader of an organization with institutional backing, veteran personnel, and the Shadow Monarch’s name on the charter.
People who’d watched him goof around on the Awakened Media Platform were now saluting him in hallways.
Valhalla’s Sinners as a registered mercenary group had been formally dissolved. There were no more mercenaries. Kaiden, Aria, Nyx, Luna, Calypso, and Bastet were all founding members of Eclipse, each granted equity stakes in the guild’s holdings.
What had previously been Kaiden’s money that he shared with his girls at his discretion was now their money, legally. Five women who had followed a broke nobody now had personal net worths that would make most S-tier awakened fighters deeply jealous.
Valhalla’s Sinners as a content brand, however, remained untouched. The streams, the videos, the adult content, the media platform page - all of it continued under the same name, operated by the same people, funded by its own revenue. Eclipse was a guild. Valhalla’s Sinners was a business. The two shared a leader and a roster, but the money stayed separate.
Kaiden activated the wrist artifact and the hologram shot up. The competition standings materialized in pale blue light as he walked, Kira matching his stride.
Rookie Track Competition Standings - Day 26
1st — Eclipse: 128,380
2nd — Iron Halo: 98,390
3rd — Ashbound: 72,360
4th — New Dawn: 68,180
5th — Silver Talon: 57,730
First place. A thirty thousand point lead.
The stampede had been the separator. When monsters had flooded the basin and torn through the lower zones, every guild with fighters in those areas had paid in blood. Iron Halo lost three members. Silver Talon lost four. Thirty and forty thousand points erased in minutes, careers ended, lives lost.

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