"Can we reconcile?" a weak voice asked.
"At a time like this, you must be joking!"
"Execute them!" Countless blades came down, and dozens of heads rolled across the ground.
Naturally, what followed victory was a reckoning.
This time, when The Church's people infiltrated and launched their surprise attack, the local nobles who had refused to give up had provided them with plenty of assistance.
Previously, in order to maintain stability, the Fictional Protocol had left many nobles alone so long as they accepted the new order and did not cause trouble.
But now, they had conveniently given the Fictional Protocol an excuse.
Many nobles who had once stood high above others became prisoners.
Then the great movement upon the Azure Sky Whale's back began.
Many nobles were purged, and in the course of the purge, the Fictional Protocol began promoting supernatural education and enlightenment among the entire population.
Anyone, even those in their seventies or eighties, could go to the Fictional Protocol to study supernatural matters.
The moment this news spread, many people immediately began cursing in the streets.
Yet before long, even that cursing could only be done in secret.
Because the main people cursing were the former vested interests in the supernatural.
They were nobles, wealthy merchants, hereditary adventurer families with secret arts, and the like.
They had previously relied on monopolizing the supernatural to easily gain all manner of benefits.
But now, the things they regarded as family treasures could be studied freely by those lowborn people.
"Such exquisite supernatural inheritances are actually being defiled by those lowly mortals!"
That was the thought held by most people who possessed supernatural inheritances.
But the nobles, the main force among such people, had just had an unknown number of heads cut off. Needless to say, the rest of