In an attack on the institution they've exposed their arsenal to early and only pushed more neutral parties into the arms of the alliance. Combine with the egg on face effect once those fooled realise they were fooled. I'd say that plot is going to backfire pretty spectacularly.
Manipulating the masses is the strength of the old bats, but now MC successfully strengthen the unity of the alliance and even blood romance of the number one guild is now leaning towards their group.🤔
You have to have a real ****ty opinion of humans if you write them to believe these obviously false rumours.. they are all educated ppl, not some fool from 2k years ago. Or maybe I'm just an optimist, it's a first for everythig🤔
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