Just as Xiao Kanong had said, this was a complete failure for the Dimensional Limit Organization.
Not only had the attack failed to achieve its objective, but they had also lost over thirty people. Subsequent identification confirmed that at least seven of them were ability users, and there might even have been an Arbitration Court member among them.
Northern Heaven Institute promptly activated the vast network of connections it had cultivated over generations and began a full-scale campaign against the Organization on every front. Public opinion was the first to erupt: when Jiangcheng Television displayed the captured private soldiers and huge quantities of firearms and weapons before the public, the people immediately exploded in outrage.
This was undoubtedly a shattering revelation for the domestic public.
In a society where guns were completely banned, someone had somehow smuggled in a fully armed force and launched an assault on a temple halfway up a mountain, simply because they believed hostile ability users were hiding inside. Even with video evidence, many people still found it hard to believe.
Especially since many of those private soldiers were foreigners, stirring up intense resentment among the public. Online cries for the Organization to get out grew louder by the wave.
Many netizens even suggested designating the Organization as a terrorist group and using national force to strike it down.
Then the Jiangcheng Branch was taken over by the police. Director Fu was suspended pending investigation, and every employee who had worked for the Organization was required to report to the police station or be considered a fugitive from justice.
Meanwhile, the half-finished Five-Ring Hub Project was halted as well. The government took complete control of the two areas connected to Erosion Space. It could be said that, after this incident, the Dimensional Limit Organization's operations in