Iver: Crowned in Yellow?

After drinking the Divine Wine, the Pure White Saintess suddenly fell into a painful state of petrification--

The reporters livestreamed everything immediately, spreading the news throughout the Theocracy.

Combined with the solemn expressions of the Cardinal Bishops and their bizarre refusal to drink, a terrifying fact began to emerge in the minds of everyone who witnessed it...

"--An assassin!"

A reporter from Antimony blurted out, "Someone assassinated Her Highness the Saintess!"

His words were nothing more than speculation.

After all, assassination attempts at press conferences were commonplace in Antimony. Many spokespeople had suddenly been killed during press conferences... The conflict between the Demon Scholars and Alchemists there had already reached that point.

Some assassinations were brazen and open. Others were purges of political rivals within a faction, followed by framing the opposing side. Still others took place on the Third Layer--considering the existence of the Second Layer, they deliberately carried out blatant assassinations to disguise them as the other side's framing.

In any case, Antimony's official intelligence department probably wouldn't be able to uncover much. After all, no one dared offend anyone else in the intelligence department... Even Antimony's King only dared to play mediator.

Not to mention, what would happen if they actually uncovered something? Antimony would probably split apart on the spot.

So in the end, no matter who died, their death would become ammunition for the two factions to attack each other. People did not care about the truth at all... Or rather, the part they wanted to be true was the truth they believed in.

Yet the instant he said those words, his voice was livestreamed along with the footage.

During such a solemn election ceremony, people would instinctively trust the credibility of an official reporter--after all, if someone lacked basic professionalism, they probably would not