Mage Veigar

Chapter 726 Reversal
The night is dark and windy.

In the city of war, dark shadows appear and disappear in the curfewed streets and alleys, under the swaying magic lights, like a hundred ghosts parading at night. Even if there are occasional patrolling guards passing by, they will just think they are hallucinating.

Of course, only the Shadow Mage can do this.

These shadow mage teams are naturally the direct troops from the rebel leader Coverday. They received a secret mission today, which is to secretly visit more than 50 households in the city.

These fifty families were neither commoners nor nobles.

They all have one thing in common, that is, they are highly respected and famous.

If we were to use two words to summarize their identity, "wise man" would obviously be the most appropriate word.

They are indeed wise men.

One of the 0.01% in the City of War.

Although there are far more true wise men than this number, there are only so many wise men who are famous and respected. They are probably like stars on earth; 70% of people can recognize them when they walk on the street.

Why visit these people?
This is of course one of Vega's tried and tested methods of controlling public opinion.

As Vega said before, since rumors will stop at the wise, why not directly use various means to control this 0.01% of wise people, and in turn use this 0.01% of wise people to spread rumors. What kind of results will be achieved?

Veigar had tried before.

The result is that one word is enough to call a horse a deer and to confuse right and wrong.

By leveraging the power of celebrities and experts, it is easy to make ordinary people believe rumors and believe them firmly.

Even if you point to the deer in the distance and say it is a horse, and say white is black, no one will doubt it.

This is the final part of Veigar’s rumor-mongering—controlling the wise men.

There was only one house.

A shadow mage carried a five-year-old child and walked towards the door. When he was about to walk out of the door, he turned around and looked at an old man behind him and said, "Old man, you are a smart man. I think you know what to do, right?"

After saying this, without caring about the old man's answer, the Shadow Mage disappeared into the night.

Such scenes appeared in more than fifty corners of the city.

A wise man who is highly respected and famous is not without weaknesses. He promises money to the poor, seduces the lustful with beauty, exploits the loyalty of the loyal, and pays attention to the descendants of the elderly and dying...

As long as we are human, we will have weaknesses.

By taking advantage of their weaknesses, getting them to do things for you is as easy as eating and drinking.

With the intelligence department's war machine running, there is nothing in this city that cannot be investigated, and every famous wise man is under control.

As for those unknown wise men?
There is no need to care about such people because their influence is limited. If they try to forcefully explain to everyone that all this is the work of the rebels in secret, they will only be regarded as idiots. The only people who have influence are celebrities.

So the next day the rebels announced their surrender.

In the City of War, wise men of high moral character and great reputation stood up one after another.

They openly stated that the so-called promises of the Empire were lies, and angrily condemned the demonstrators for being too stupid, forcing the only savior, the rebel government, to surrender to the Empire. When the Imperial Army regained control of the Northwest, the entire War City and the Northwest would have to live in humiliation as third-class citizens for generations.

The terrible effects of celebrity effect began to emerge.

Plus, there’s a saying that goes, you don’t know how to cherish something until you lose it.

Knowing that the rebels were about to surrender.

In just one day, the words of these wise men swept the entire war city like a storm, and the civilians in the city, who originally thought that they had won a great victory because of their marches and demonstrations, began to panic.

Is it that what they did was fundamentally wrong?
Did they force their savior to death with their own hands?
People who pretend to be asleep cannot be awakened. The only one who can wake them up is themselves. Now the rebels have been forced to declare surrender, and of course no one thinks that this is still their means of guiding public opinion.

Therefore, when these people began to waver in their hearts and gradually began to doubt whether what they had done in the past was correct, public opinion had already entered the rhythm of "Vega", and the promises of the empire now seemed full of loopholes in their eyes.

This is a long time.

The civilians who originally believed in the rumors and the evidence but were led by the crazy rhythm began to emphasize their own correctness again, which further influenced the stubborn elements.

Therefore, after two days of fermentation, the wind direction in the City of War changed.

As the day of the rebels' surrender drew closer, they gradually began to panic.

Once the rebels surrender and the Empire enters the war city, they will become third-class citizens?

This idea began to take root in their minds, and the public opinion in the City of War evolved from how to make the rebels surrender voluntarily to how to make the rebels withdraw their surrender announcement.

There is obviously a connection between public opinion and the military camp.

When rumors began to spread that the Imperial Army had no intention of honoring its promise and was only deceiving them, the soldiers in the barracks began to panic. If the Empire did not intend to honor its promise and was planning to settle accounts later, then as rebel soldiers, they would probably not even have the chance to become third-class citizens, and would probably be directly labeled as traitors, right?

It's about one's own interests.

The soldiers no longer had the joy they had felt a few days ago when they learned they had to surrender. Now, looking at the luggage they had packed, they hated their own stupidity. If they could believe the words of the Empire, why would they have joined the rebel army in the first place?

What to do now?
But the leader has already announced his surrender. Can the water that has been poured out be taken back?
"Captain, please try again no matter what!"

"Yes, please tell the chief that we already know we were wrong and ask him to take back his decision."

"We don't want surrender, we want war. This time it's either my death or the empire's destruction!"

"..."

The soldiers took action.

They hoped to show their determination to Chief Coverdale and have him withdraw his order to surrender.

"I can only do my best, and I have to respect the chief's opinion."

An officer answered the soldiers in embarrassment: "Whether the leader insists on surrendering or rescinding his order this time, I hope you will not blame him. It was us who misunderstood him first and disappointed the leader."

"Commander, we understand."

The soldiers lowered their heads in shame and said, "Please convey our apologies to the leader."

Soldiers in action in the military camp.

The civilians in the city of war were not far behind.

The method they adopted was still a parade, but this time they did not force Coverdale to surrender like last time. Instead, they admitted their mistakes to Coverdale, hoping that he could withdraw the surrender order and continue to lead the rebels in the fight against the Imperial Army.

As long as Coverdale withdraws the order to surrender.

Civilians even pledged to live and die with the rebels.

Wind direction in the city of war.

In less than seven days, a stunning reversal was finally completed.

Now, the civilians and soldiers of the war city are eager for war more than ever.

(End of this chapter)