As the aftermath of the meteor incident continued to unfold, Allen once again made the front-page headlines and became the subject of fierce media coverage.
The content was filled with extravagant praise. Even Allen himself got goosebumps reading the nauseatingly flowery language, while his stomach acid surged and made him want to throw up.
It was as though overnight, he had become humanity's savior and Earth's only hope.
And that was not all!
Invitations for interviews, television talk shows, advertisements, endorsements, and more sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain.
Even an idiot could tell this was a star-making campaign secretly pushed by high-ranking government officials.
Whenever someone mentioned Allen's achievements in public, they would also mention the name of a certain political bigshot and repeatedly emphasize that without his strong support, Z-City and City D would inevitably have become two entirely different hellscapes.
Under this intensive bombardment of false information, more than ninety percent of the public believed it. They flooded the internet with messages declaring their support for him to run for the next highest leadership position and replace the current incompetent government.
After all that, Allen unsurprisingly replaced Silver Fang Bang as the third-ranked S-Class hero, while that veteran politician gained the good reputation and sky-high approval ratings he had always dreamed of.
The deal gave both sides exactly what they wanted, leaving everyone happy.
The only ones hurt were the current government, whose approval ratings had already been plummeting, and Atomic Samurai, who was deeply dissatisfied with Allen standing above him.
Unfortunately, as the losing side, aside from impotent barking, they had no means of fighting back.
After all, once public opinion formed into a major trend, it could not be reversed by the efforts of just a few people.
Moreover, an enormous interest group centered