Humanity had nothing but awe and respect for the celestial rankers. It was still hard for the people to digest. It hadn't even been a year when the greatest powerhouses were still Sovereigns.
Much had changed in just a few months. It was so unreal that some conspiracy theories began to spread. One of the most popular one was that they were all in a matrix, a large scale mental spell that put them into their sweetest dreams.
It wouldn't have been a big problem if that was all. Some of these idiots began to try to 'break the matrix' by doing some crazy stuff.
Reading some suspicious esoteric stuff, dancing to please the sacred entities, putting themselves through self-abuse to 'wake up'.
If that was where it ended, it wouldn't have been so bad. A bunch of cultists picked up a theory from who knows where that they needed to 'sacrifice' other humans, whom they merely viewed as 'creations of the matrix' and referred to them as 'NPCs'.
