The Tide Turns [Fourth Update]

Perhaps it was a common failing of people in this era.

They respected the strong and revered kings, yet always overlooked the power of the most basic, weakest people: the common folk.

In their eyes, so-called struggles for power only took place among those in power. The common people had no right to speak, nor could they participate—the people were merely objects for them to take from and demand from at will.

That was why, after usurping power, they had not used public opinion to destroy the Pharaoh's prestige among the people while building up their own.

In their view, the common people only needed to be fooled a little.

But they were wrong.

They had not deeply realized that no matter what kind of king, marquis, general, or minister someone became, his ancestors had once been ordinary commoners.

Now, these usurpers were destined to suffer a disastrous fall because of it.

With the aid of magic, Nitocris successfully spread the rumors—or rather, the true facts disguised as rumors—among the common people, allowing them to spread rapidly.

With the rumors helping things along, coupled with the people's own reverence for the Pharaoh and resentment toward the ministers who had thrown the nation into chaos, the news quickly gained the trust of most people.

The common people all said that those ministers and priests deserved to die. They had betrayed the Pharaoh and brought calamity upon Egypt; they deserved divine punishment.

As the rumors spread, the dead swiftly became utterly wicked figures in the eyes of the people. At the same time, because the people hated everyone associated with them, even the subordinates of those ministers and priests—indeed, most of Egypt's current officials—were no longer considered good people.

More and more people believed that those ministers and priests had failed the