Chapter 1002: Chapter 549: Hijacking Public Opinion, Who in the World Doesn’t Understand Byron?

The time just reached the second day.

The news of the Kalmar Union spread across the Old Continent like the wind.

This remote region located at the northeastern corner of the continent has been quite lively recently.

It had successively experienced the rampage of the incarnation of the Old God [Touch of the Kraken], the invasion of overseas colonizers [Abaddon Secret Teachings] and the Black Iron Race’s Phantom Fleet, [Wild Hunt King] Byron ascended as the second Pseudo-God on the surface of the continent since the Silver Era...

Recently, it has been one sea monster tide after another, and the terrifying cnidarian disease that makes people pale.

A series of rehearsals from the "Luanyan Epoch" dazzles people, fearing that the flames of war might affect them at any moment. It naturally became the focus of attention for various countries and forces on the continent.

Every piece of news is tugging at the sensitive nerves of the upper echelons of the nations.

Many cannot imagine, if the Five Bay States, at the forefront, were defeated, resulting in over ten million Bayfolk being completely polluted, what fate the neighboring countries might suffer next.

The entire northeastern continent might instantly become corrupted.

Byron’s [Golden Law] had long invaded the Eternal Night Peninsula using the Mind Wish Power called for by the Kalmar Triad’s lower echelons amidst the crisis of death, sealing off information exchange tightly, making it incredibly difficult for external forces to pry.

This time, the deliberately released news was certainly not the Young Faction military officers in the Kalmar Union seizing the opportunity while the [Evernight Queen] was absent to wipe out the Church Faction she relied on, gaining control over the highest authority of the Kalmar Triad.

But rather:

"The brave Royal Capital Garrison Corps in Royal Capital Amarlingburg thwarted another conspiracy of the Old God Church attempting to infiltrate the Union, saving the Kalmar Union of Three Nations as well as the wavering faith of its citizens!"

Byron, in his position as the vice-president of the Lighthouse Union, ordered the "Lighthouse Daily" to publish the article he designated.

Simultaneously, in his identity as Mr. Wednesday, he issued bounty tasks to major media giants on Financial Street, manipulating public opinion to some extent.

A torrent of opinion capable of altering the Mind Wish Power of the entire continent suddenly arose.

"Hiss! You all should take a look at this newspaper..."

"The cathedral Roschild Cathedral and a nation’s Orthodox church high-ranking officials, seven tenths of them have been parasitized by the [Gluttonous Worm] of the Old God Church, they are no longer servants of the creator, but the claws of the Old God reaching into the Material World.

The brave Kalmar people spotted their schemes and fought valiantly.

After achieving a phased victory last night, they will launch a nationwide investigation, swearing to return a clean country to the great Queen before her return."

"Pious believers and clergy across the country welcomed this, believing that only clergy with ulterior motives would reject investigation."

"The newly appointed Legion Commander of the Protective Army of the Church overnight wrote supporting articles, acknowledging that the parasitism of the former Legion Commander was their negligence and incompetence and vowed never to allow the same thing to happen again."

"The country’s large and small nobles announced abandoning previous grudges, they will now join hands with the purified Church, setting aside disputes, unifying their consensus, and cutting off the heads of all invading outsiders."

"The Prime Minister, bishops, great nobles, members of parliament, major merchants, and representatives from all sectors of the union participated in an emergency consultation meeting in Amarlingburg.

Collectively, they believe that due to the Queen’s prolonged absence and the Crown Prince’s death causing a vacuum in central power, the Old God Church found a hole to exploit.

The security situation in the region is increasingly severe, the Old God Church coveting, and one wave of monster tide after another; the Kalmar Union and the Five Bay Nations are in imminent danger.

Therefore, while firmly supporting the church, the union must preserve itself to serve as the first line of defense against the colonizers and various Kin and bizarreness outside the Silver Continent.

This is the greatest justice against foreign enemies!

Given the current urgency, the proposal to establish a new power center is imperative; the temporary parliament had no choice but to collectively pass the resolution:

According to the universally recognized continent’s law of royal succession, endorse the [Evernight Queen]’s only granddaughter Iron Anchor Bay Princess, Queen Blackthorns Violet Harrold Your Majesty as the new successor to the throne, and serve as regent in the Queen’s absence."

This proposal was passed unanimously!"

"..."

The news on the newspaper about the church high-ranking officials being parasitized shocked all quarters of the continent.

Initially thinking that the threat from overseas was still distant, but only after seeing this newspaper did they suddenly realize that the footsteps of the Old God’s return have quietly reached their doorstep.

If it weren’t for the Bayfolk Nations bearing everything, the one being parasitized might actually have been themselves.

The peaceful world dressed up by the church can be shattered with a poke, and the first ulcer is actually notoriously corrupt Orthodox Clergy, thoroughly rotten.

Coupled with the newspaper’s photos of the [Gluttonous Worm], oddly shaped degenerate sea monsters, and the images of hideous tools uploaded to the Law Network by the Naturalists in the public library [Key of Omniscience].

Also, the various torture tools in the crypt of the cathedral, the rescue of scantily clad beautiful young girls, and many times more little boys than girls, no one doubts the authenticity of this matter anymore.

If it weren’t for the discovery in the crypt, the audience might still wonder if the Bayfolk exaggerated and framed, but with this evidence, everyone feels it’s justified.

Besides the Orthodox clergy, who else could do something this hellish?