Shock

While everyone was stunned by what the Arasaka Group had done, news from Night City spread across the entire world at top speed, shocking everyone even more—the Arasaka Group trying to turn everyone into obedient Cyberpsychos through implants was indeed astonishing, but considering Arasaka's usual behavior, nobody was surprised that it had done something like this.

At most, it was just a matter of, Holy crap, that bastard Arasaka really planned to do this?

After all, the Arasaka Group had always been notorious. It was the kind of corporation people would believe even if it said it planned to blow up Earth.

But one person ruling Night City and declaring that all corporate assets would be confiscated—this left every other region utterly shaken.

And soon, the situation began to change rapidly.

Religious organizations around the world quickly responded—yes, even after humanity had entered the space age, these relics from the primitive era still refused to die out.

Soon, religious figures bearing titles such as "bishop" and "priest" appeared on media screens, loudly condemning the greed and sins of corporations. In fact, this was already an old and familiar topic. Many religious organizations had long criticized the nihilistic hedonism promoted by corporations, believing that they were responsible for the world's moral decay.

Of course, corporations had no interest in these harmless accusations. They had made the money, and being cursed at by a few religious fanatics would not change anything. Besides, in this era, as long as you had money, you could install incredibly powerful cyberware and turn an ordinary person who could barely fight into a top-tier expert in an instant. So there was no need to worry that those religious lunatics could hurt you.

But things were different now.

Because an Angel had appeared.

That was right—an Angel!

Everything