Chapter 752
Bardi, the Mist Alliance, Auland, and the Mage Country . These four mega empire-level factions were carrying out a joint military operation for the first time . This would doubtlessly attract a great deal of international attention .
In a way, this alliance was now the second strongest faction in the mortal plane, so naturally its every movement would attract everyone's attention .
That was right, only the second strongest . As long as the Holy Church didn't do something overly foolish, and the God of Holy Light remained alive, nobody else would possibly be the strongest faction in the mortal plane .
Fairies were running around the banquet hall while carrying photography crystals . Everyone else carefully avoided these mystical paparazzi . Anyone who accidentally antagonized the fairy reporters would probably end up worse than when antagonizing a king .
A king would at most put you in jail . Meanwhile, the fairies were everywhere, and would never rest at any hour of the day . They could easily ruin your reputation .
The most famous and ridiculous such incident was about an unlucky noble who had antagonized the fairies .
The fairies had reported how a certain powerful earl in San Antonio would casually slaughter his own domain's citizens as he pleased . This earl got angry and banned all fairy news outposts and information exchange centers from his domain . After that, news started spreading that he was having an affair with his son-in-law… that was right, son-in-law . San Antonio's nobles felt that being bisexual was really cool .
That was only the beginning . When the earl's furious daughter confronted him over his affair with her husband, a new report came out that the earl's daughter wasn't actually his at all . It turned out that the earl's wife had been cheating on him with one of her personal guard knights .
This stunned both the earl and the daughter . They had lived for 30 years as father and daughter already without knowing that they weren't related by blood, yet the fairies had still somehow discovered such information .
The earl didn't even have the time to be happy (?) when even more astonishing news struck them .
The fairies then reported how the daughter's really handsome and beardless husband was actually the earl's illegitimate son, whose mother was a maid as well as the earl's true love . Thus, the earl had been having an affair with his own son without realizing it .
It was said that in the end, the earl, his daughter, and her husband all decided to be together as one family without regards to how wrong things were .
This was too ridiculous to even be described by the phrase "the powerful have messy lives" . This was messy to the point where I could barely handle it . At the time, I had responded without using a single comma to pause . "These nobles have such messed up lifestyles that my eyes are being blinded so could you nobles please be a little more normal and care about basic morality because if you're like this I'll lose my confidence in humanity and it will affect world peace so that's no good…"
Once this news started spreading, countless people reacted in a similar fashion to Roland, either spitting out their drink or food . Normal people had once again underestimated the lack of morals some people could have along with how messy noble lifestyles could be .
Due to this incident, the royalty of every human country all banded together to pressure the fairies . Human rulers were no saints, and every ruler had done something before which they wouldn't want publicized .
The fairies' actions made the human royalty start to panic .
The end result was that the fairies compromised . They didn't have any combat strength of their own, after all . Even if the fairies would still be fine if they antagonized all human royalty everywhere, the fairies would no longer be able to continue their information trade .
The conclusion was that the fairies normally wouldn't report on the royalty and nobles' private affairs . The fairies would first send their news reports to the local royalty for approval first, and only report after receiving approval… Did this all seem familiar? Yes, this was indeed quite similar to how certain countries back on Earth would censor the news and information .
Of course, the fairies also received various benefits from this, such as credibility due to the local government's support and the permission to sell their magazines and newspapers everywhere .
These mystical paparazzi were liked as well as hated and even feared .
The fairies also knew that others didn't like them . They never cared about receiving recognition from others when gathering their information . This time, since so many powerful individuals from different countries had all gathered together, many fairies in charge of reporting on information in various countries had also gathered together .
The fairies were used to powerful individuals ignoring or disliking them . However, what the fairies didn't expect was that this time, someone actually voluntarily invited them to report on something .
Normally, a banquet such as this would be for everyone to interact a little with each other before dispersing and preparing for the upcoming battle .
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