Three days later, news that the Doral City Lord's Manor had ordered one hundred sets of Mana Monitoring Systems from the New Moon Merchant Guild appeared in major newspapers throughout the Candel Empire.
At first, almost everyone who saw the news was baffled.
Mana Monitoring Systems? What were those?
Why did the newspapers call this the Southern Province Governor's Mansion and Doral City's response to the recent kidnapping incident?
Only after reading the explanation of the Mana Monitoring System farther down in the papers did people begin to understand.
So that was it. With these devices, all of Doral City would be under close surveillance, leaving crime nowhere to hide. Naturally, incidents like that kidnapping would become much harder to pull off.
Even if one did occur, the system would make it easy to track down those responsible.
No matter how they looked at it, this system would be an excellent deterrent to crime.
Of course, not everyone supported it.
Soon after the news broke, several newspapers published the views of another group, who argued that the Mana Monitoring System would leave people with no privacy whatsoever and violated the most basic principles of human morality.
Others immediately countered them.
If you weren't doing anything wrong, why would you be worried about the Mana Monitoring System?
Besides, the Doral City Lord's Manor had explicitly stated that the system would only monitor public areas within Doral City, not private homes, so people had no reason to worry about their privacy being invaded.
If you still felt offended by that, you should first ask yourself whether you had a guilty conscience.
The debate between the two sides rapidly escalated across the major newspapers, soon becoming one of the hottest topics in the Candel Empire.
Thanks to this heated discussion, awareness of the