Support for the amendment began to decline, falling from forty percent to thirty-five percent, then down to thirty percent.
The Order Alliance could no longer sit still.
"Damn it!" the Eternal Empire Lord said angrily. "How do they always manage to escape danger?"
"Every time we think victory is assured, they turn the tables!"
The Rulekeeper Alliance's chairman was equally frustrated. "And all their methods are perfectly legitimate."
"We want to smear them, but we can't find any leverage."
"They really are doing good deeds, which makes them very hard to condemn."
"This cannot continue." A chilling voice rang out. It belonged to an envoy sent by the Order Alliance's backers in the shadows.
"Master says it is time to use special measures."
"What measures?" the Empire Lord asked warily.
"Create a crisis." The envoy sneered.
"Make this crisis appear to have been caused by the Hyperconscious Network."
"Once they bear the blame, no amount of good they do will matter."
It was a vicious plan.
But for the Order Alliance, already backed into a corner, it seemed to be the only option.
"What kind of crisis?" the Alliance chairman asked.
"A dimensional collapse," the envoy said. "Collapse an insignificant dimension, then pin it on the Hyperconscious Network."
"Collapse a dimension..." The Empire Lord hesitated. "The beings inside it..."
"They will all perish," the envoy said calmly. "For the greater good, this is a necessary sacrifice."
"Besides, it is only a low dimension. The beings inside are not important at all."
The conference hall fell silent.
The cost of this plan was too great, great enough to make some delegates uneasy.
But in the end, no one objected.
Because they feared the Hyperconscious Network's continued growth even more.
Compared to that, sacrificing an "unimportant" dimension seemed acceptable.
"Then it is