Books categorized as personal travelogues are generally not very popular, with a pitifully small audience.
If not for New Horizon's vigorous promotion, flopping would be an inevitable result.
Perhaps after half a month, even if the book attracted no interest, bookstores would politely place it on an inconspicuous small shelf.
Although L. Hunter carried considerable promotional resources, compared to books released during the same period, its sales situation wasn't optimistic.
However, every reader who bought the book, after seeing the mismatch between content and category, basically wanted to say a heartfelt word to Law.
It was a sentence they weren't sure they should say.
Undeniably, the things depicted in the book were quite captivating.
Readers who already enjoyed this type of book even thought of D. Hunter, that fictional adventure biography, even comparing the two books.
The result was that most leaned towards Law's L. Hunter. Why? Simply because L. Hunter's content, though also fabricated, gave an indescribable sense of realism.
So, people who read this book immediately became Law's loyal fans.
They just didn't know that the book's content wasn't fabricated but genuine experiences, hence giving them that sense of firsthand realism.
Of course, this was never what Law valued.
What he wanted to do was simply compile his experiences into a book because that's something almost every explorer does.
As for what genre readers considered the book, that was never important.
With this attitude, L. Hunter didn't change its category. Several days passed, and sales were less than three thousand copies.
However, readers who finished the book spontaneously created an online community blog named L. Hunter. In less than an hour, the blog's membership exceeded a thousand.
Then, another hour later, the blog had exactly two hundred discussion posts.
Each post's title and content didn't differ much, but they had a common point: the title and content would definitely include the word [Clickbait].
To let more people correctly recognize this book, this group of grassroots fans spontaneously promoted it.
Soon, pirated copies appeared online.
Someone copied the book's content and uploaded it to the internet, attracting a group of readers hesitant about purchasing the book.
As a result, after reading part of the content, these readers spontaneously went to bookstores to buy the book.
Then, after a short period of fermentation, L. Hunter's content appeared on the Hunter Forum.
Because the protagonist's name in the book was Law, and Law was the most famous and mysterious ID on the Hunter Forum.
In short, unbeknownst to Law, the reader base was slowly accumulating.
Regarding this, Law also didn't pay attention.
He didn't care at all about the book's current sales situation, just as he told Aika from the start: as long as it gets published, that's enough.
He just didn't know that at a certain time, a user named Ickshonpe quietly joined the community blog's verified members.
Because Law had asked Ickshonpe for a little help when publishing the book, Ickshonpe read the book afterward.
After finishing the book, he immediately conceived an idea.
He planned to recreate the things and regions depicted in the book within the online world, as the backstory for a game.
Regarding this idea, he didn't inform Law.
…
August 1st.
A letter with gilded edges was delivered to Law.
The sender was Beyond. The letter's content was a time.
"5 p.m.?"
Law looked at the time on the letter, then instinctively glanced at the clock in the office area.
It was only around 10 a.m.
The confusion about the letter was quickly resolved.
At 4:45 p.m., information channels like TV, phones, computers, etc., all started broadcasting a message: the announcement preview of the Kakin Empire's King, Nasubi Hui Guo Rou.
This news appeared without warning. Major media outlets were thrown into chaos, certain something major was about to happen. They hastily arranged personnel to follow up, with only fifteen minutes left.
The time reached 5 p.m. Multiple communication channels switched to live broadcast.
The venue was a huge indoor stadium. Bright lights shone down from above.
The tiered spectator stands were packed. At a glance, there were dense crowds of people.
A stage was set up in the stadium's center. The lights converged here, illuminating a fat middle-aged man.
This man had a small chignon-like hairstyle on his head, a fat face and body, and distinctive mustache.
This person was the Kakin Empire's King, Nasubi Hui Guo Rou.
He stood on the stage, bearing all the lights.
The people on-site were Kakin Empire's citizens, selected for this event. They simply thought this was just another speech by Nasubi.
In fact, it was indeed a speech, just a very special one.
At the same time, far away in the Association building, Law had been sitting in front of the TV ten minutes earlier, waiting.
Biscuit, Shiro, Ging… they were all there. Everyone sat on the sofa, staring at the blank TV.
Their region didn't immediately get the broadcast feed. In fact, multiple continents faced the same situation.
Seeing that five minutes had passed and the channel still hadn't received the feed, Law and Ging couldn't wait. They found a way to connect the online live stream to the TV.
A moment later, the picture finally appeared.
"The great nations of the past are gradually declining. Being constrained by the superstitions spread by the V5 is meaningless. Only emerging nations like ours can lead the world today. Ohoho!"
As soon as the TV picture appeared, Law's group immediately saw Nasubi's upper body almost filling the entire screen and heard his words.
On the stage, Nasubi's eyes narrowed to slits, only slightly revealing a glint of light. He raised his index finger, using an impassioned tone, and said, "Therefore, all the challenges facing humanity can be resolved there!"
"That unknown land is not a taboo as the V5 claim. On the contrary, humanity's prosperous future lies dormant there."
"There are inexhaustible, abundant resources, every imaginable food source, vast land resources!"
"Therefore, I declare!"
"The Kakin Empire will shoulder the dreams of all humanity and advance towards the Dark Continent!"
The impassioned and inspiring declaration began spreading across various places worldwide.
Major regions successively received the broadcast feed, and the internet was already in an uproar.
The Kakin Empire's declaration forced the existence of the Dark Continent into everyone's eyes.