Law of the Swarm

Chapter 411 The power of public opinion

The aggressive move from August made System couldn't help sighing. After all, if System was allowed to choose, he might use a softer method.

August's approach is still too radical.

After all, the elves kingdom at this time is in some chaos because the elf king Arthur is missing. If August's behavior attracts the hostility of the elves, it will definitely not be worth the candle.

However, looking carefully at the course of the incident, System found that what happened was not what he imagined...

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In the kingdom of elves to the east of Lierte Forest, elves occupy a large area of ​​land, but the fertility of the elves has always been a big problem, and the combined population is only 10,000+ people.

In addition to the [-] elves, plus [-] dwarves and humans, most of the elves in the elves live in villages in forests and mountains.

The fewer elf villages have only a few dozen people, and the more villages have no more than a thousand people, only a few hundred households.

Because they are not interested in meat food, the elves only eat some fruits and vegetables on weekdays. When everything dies in winter, the elves will eat some nuts, or wheat exchanged from humans, baked Some crepes or bread.

Of course, even without wheat and flour, these elves would not starve to death, and even lived well.

The individual strength is strong, the food is sufficient, and there are no enemies to intrude, and the life span is long and the birth rate is low. As a result, the elves have a leisurely lifestyle.

Elves generally have no ambitions, nor will they try to change their existing lives.

Therefore, during the month when Elf King Arthur disappeared, although the people in the Elf King's Court were agitated, it did not bring any obvious impact to the Elf Kingdom.

Elves are peaceful by nature and hate lying.

The vast majority of elves have set a set of rules for themselves, some like to flaunt themselves with justice, some yearn for freedom, and some elves believe in those gods who have fallen for thousands of years, and choose to accept the ideas of those gods...

If System could describe it in one sentence, it would be full.

For example, Edgar, the legendary ranger Edgar who likes to take notes, Edgar's character full of justice is not uncommon among elves, and like the female druid Yvette, she once firmly believed in the goddess of nature There are also a lot of elves waiting for some gods.

Because of these concepts and subtle influences, elves look down on greedy human beings from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that human beings are entangled in petty profits, which is not noble enough; similarly, elves also hate wolf men and pork men who drink blood, thinking that these sub-human creatures are too too barbaric.

People have no corn to satisfy their hunger, so why not eat minced meat?
It's like this sentence left by System in his previous life.

The elves don't know that the reason why human merchants are greedy is because these humans are running around for their livelihood, and they want to live a better life; while the reason why the jackals and pig-headed men drink blood and have tyrannical personalities is also for survival.

Nowadays, the jackals, lizards, and snakes in the city of golden bananas, because of the sufficient food, and the sense of satisfaction and happiness brought by the [data template], coupled with the constraints of the mission system and krypton points, should have been very brutal The intelligent creatures have become too docile at this time.

After all, it is the nature of all intelligent creatures to pursue a comfortable and happy life.

In order to obtain happiness, many human beings have become treacherous and greedy; Gnolls and Lizardmen have used another method. They have become barbaric and tyrannical, because if they rob enough, they will also reap a lot. Happiness; as for the elves, they generally think that they are happy enough, so the elves always remain the same, except for self-defense, they rarely launch wars or internal strife.

Of course, among the many intelligent creatures, there is a creature that System has yet to understand, and that is the devil.

System really couldn't figure out why, for the devil, the source of happiness was not a comfortable life, but destruction and killing.

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But no matter what, elves with ambitions and pursuits like Elf King Arthur, although there are a lot of elves among the elders, are still too few among ordinary elves.

And it is precisely because of the unique social structure and ideology of the elves that the elves are easily fanned.

This is not to say that elves have low IQ, but that these elves are too simple while being full.

The elf king Arthur suddenly disappeared, leaving only the elf king's only daughter, Her Royal Highness Erica, the elf princess.

Some Elf Elders are still arguing over whether Erica should be allowed to handle state affairs. Some Elf Elders want to take advantage of this opportunity to seize power, while others just sit on the sidelines. The Elf people who are full and have nothing to do are also very concerned about this matter. .

And in this relatively chaotic period of time, August from the Golden Banana Federation took the lead in destroying the first church of the Church of Order, then the second, and the third...

Logically speaking, in the face of this kind of thing, with the character of the elves who share the same hatred with the enemy, they should have been unanimous in the outside world.

But now the number of elves who have obtained the [data template] has exceeded [-], accounting for nearly one-third of the elves. These elves generally know that August committed suicide for the Dragonborn Empire a year ago and transformed into an elf. Things, holding a positive impression of August, swayed public opinion in the elf kingdom.

And the second point is a blurry image released by Edgar, the two idiot rangers, through the krypton gold forum. The image vaguely records that a birdman from the sky entered the palace of the Elven King Court on the eve of the elf king Arthur's disappearance.

Edgar speculates that the disappearance of the elf king Arthur is inseparable from the order of the apostle celestial warriors.

Then, after the continuous dissemination of information on the Internet and the continuous delivery of news, a few days later, August's behavior has become an act of justice, and it has become a revenge for the elf king Arthur.

Almost all the elves believed that it was Odd, the demigod who claimed to be order, who killed the innocent elven king Arthur.

Later, August's move to destroy the Cult of Kosmos no longer required August's hands. Some angry and meddling elves would demolish this sinister church and make those who believed in the Cult of Kosmos The elves were expelled from the kingdom of elves.

During this period, nearly one-third of the elves who believed in the Cult of Order had no choice but to change their beliefs due to the pressure of public opinion.

System also saw a video image, a believer of the former Church of Order, under the eyes of many elves who seemed to be persecuting, smashed a statue of Odd with his own hands, and then showed a somewhat dazed expression.

Killing and punishing one's heart is nothing more than that.

As for the 22 strongholds of the Church of Order, the reason why there were only three remaining within a month was because the remaining Church of Order had already gotten word of it and they all hid them, so that they escaped disaster by luck.

But even if they escaped, after this incident, there is no possibility of the Cult of Order spreading in the kingdom of elves...

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"Is this the power of public opinion?"

System looked at the information compiled by Little M for him, and sighed in his heart. Compared to force strikes, public opinion is more like a knife that kills people without blood.

In order to avoid the unfavorable public opinion of the Golden Banana God Sect in the future, System quickly set up some measures for the smart assistant M, so that the public opinion can always develop in a direction favorable to him...

(End of this chapter)