765 Change (1/2)

Eich's news industry had become quite advanced ever since the fairies got involved. The fairies' news stands could be found almost everywhere. Anyone could subscribe to their daily Black Forest Report and learn about major incidents which had occurred halfway around the world just a few days ago.

However, the fairies were recently having difficulty keeping up with the news!

This meaningless Holy War wouldn't possibly stop. The end result of the entire world being at war was that highly important news was happening every day.

In the past, the death of a king or destruction of an entire army would have been headline news. Now, the destruction of an entire small or medium kingdom would only be on the second page.

Did this sound like everything was bad news?

The result of bad news being everywhere was that any bit of good news would be endlessly exaggerated.

”The Devil Lord Chaos Main God invaded the mortal plane, only to be directly beaten back by the Strongest Holy Knight!”

On the very next day, the fairies had the more than 100 news agencies under their control all use this exact same headline.

Under this headline was a memory crystal image of Sarwenstan who now had only one dragon head remaining. Even though he was in an incredibly wretched state, his image was still capable of striking primeval fear into people's hearts.

Sarwenstan was a supreme source of evil that would typically only appear in fairy tales, yet he was now appearing in front of everyone in such a wretched state, which truly gave others a tremendous impact.

To give an analogy using Christianity from my original world, it would be like Satan suddenly arriving on Earth to fight against God, but then Satan was hit in the head by a randomly thrown brick right after crawling out of hell, getting hurt to the point where his head was seriously injured and bleeding… This was probably a rather strange analogy, but I'm sure my readers will understand.

The end result was that every single fairy news publication used more than half of their entire publication to report on this incident. They started from Sarwenstan's past accomplishments, talking about his current status, faction, how incredibly many powerful individuals he had killed before, and so on. All news publications then came to the identical conclusion that I had accomplished an incredibly amazing combat achievement that was so unbelievable and wonderful for morale.

”The greatest combat achievement since the Holy War started!”

”The Holy Church is nothing more than disorganized rabble that only knows how to argue about the Strongest Holy Knight who achieved so many incredible things.”

There was a tiny postscript in all these exaggerated reports that Sarwenstan's ”ally A”, whom some referred to as an Undead Emperor by the name of Shupnus, was accidentally injured during this attack. There was even a picture of Shupnus's skull looking all pitiful in the center.

Ally A? Accidentally injured? If I was Shupnus, I would have been angered to the point of exploding just by seeing such a news report. Being at the very end in such tiny text would be even more humiliating than receiving a serious injury.

Disorganized rabble? The Holy Church had received yet another verbal attack despite having nothing to do with this matter. The very fact that the fairies dared to criticize the powerful Holy Church was also circumspect evidence that the Holy Church's reputation had recently been decreasing significantly. If the Holy Church didn't accomplish anything major soon, then not only would it be unable to be the humans' leader in the Holy War, it would likely be pushed out of authority by the royalty of the major countries.

Actually, none of the above were the most pitiful here. The most pitiful one was the Devil Lord whose name wasn't even reported for his death. It was as if everyone had tacitly agreed to forget about his existence.