All the online forums, the TV channel that was now entirely dedicated to 'Evolution Online,' even in-game guild channels, basically every single place that was a hot spot for gossip about 'Evolution Online' now only talked about a single thing, the newly formed guild 'Crimson Abyss.'
In the beginning, it was just one difficult dungeon achievement. It caught the public's attention, but it was just transient big news, soon to be replaced with something else.
So people did not think too much about it and moved on after a couple of rants about unfair it was. Some even demanded the secret method to take down the boss.
But after that, it was just old news. No one bothered to give the new guild another glance. The gossip just died down when unexpectedly, another achievement came out.
And this time, it was Level 30 Molten Domain dungeon achievement, that too at the nightmarish difficulty mode!
This once again made the forums and news abuzz with gossip about the new 'Crimson Abyss' guild.
Everyone was forced to take note of the new guild and especially the two superstar sisters in the guild who were already very famous.
Along with the two girls, Derek's and Liam's names popped up as well, and along with that the whole scandal about slave contracts.
After that, it did not take too long for things to take a negative turn and spiral in the wrong direction.
It was almost as if someone was pulling the strings from the background. No one was praising or admiring Crimson Abyss any longer. Instead…
"So ruthless! These guys are hoarding all the fire-resistance potions."
"What a cheap guild! They are forcing others to become slaves."
"They found some loophole for the dungeon and are not sharing the information with others."
"Crimson Abyss is the worst. I heard from my friend that they are charging 100 gold coins just to take recruitment interviews for the guild."
"I heard that one of the guild higher-ups harassed a woman and forced her to sign a slave contract in-game."
"This guild is so shady!"
"If you want to prove that you are innocent, come out and show us the secret to the final boss of 'Twilight Forest'"
"It's impossible to kill because the werewolf boss insta kills everyone. These people are using some bug but not sharing it with others!"
"Boycott the guild!"
"Ban the guild!"
"Who is the GM?"
"Kick this guild out!"
And just as the whole world was raging against the guild, the third achievement also came out, shortly followed by the guild establishment notice.
Crimson Abyss became the first S-rank guild in the game for the whole world to see!
Everyone was completely speechless and when the shock finally wore off, it was the haters who became even louder!
They absolutely targeted the new guild and completely smeared its name with all sorts of allegations about cheating and malpractice, even calling on the government and police to take action.
But little did they know that the achievements did not end here.
Just as someone else pointed out that the guild was only performing so well because others were currently focused on the demon invasions and the spatial rifts, the last and final gift that Liam had prepared also came through.
Guild Crimson Abyss was also the first one to conquer a spatial rift!