Don't confiscate my identity as a human race

Chapter 570 - 537: Loren Feels Like Everyone Is Questioning Him_2

It saw that the current situation in the Palante Empire had become —

[Public Opinion: 132→145/1000 (the support rate and cohesion of the populace)]

[Parliament: 419→305→252/1000 (the support rate among the high-ranking officials of the Palante Empire)]

[Military: 124/1000 (using the Honing Empire as a reference)]

[Finance: 221→222/1000 (the current productivity status of the Palante Empire)]

[Diplomacy: 115/1000 (diplomatic relations with the Demon World and the surrounding nations that have yet to surrender)]

The overall probability of victory unexpectedly remained locked at zero, as the comprehensive data began to worsen.

They had been in the Shadow World for over a day now.

There are still just over 43 days left.

On the first day, Lanci, after becoming acquainted with and winning over those around him, delivered a public speech in front of the media upon taking office. Public opinion rapidly rose from 132 to 145 and seemed to be still slowly climbing according to the speed of dissemination.

However, since he publicly expressed the idea that they should actively resist, he appeared to have offended the conservatives, and the parliamentary support plummeted from 419 to 305, and then fell again due to the recent quarrel with Duke Moriarty.

The change in finance might be due to Lanci’s inspiration, as the people gained more confidence and productivity weakly increased.

Military and diplomatic factors showed no changes.

"If I had continued to refute Duke Moriarty’s words just now, I would have left behind written evidence of ’rejecting all possibilities of negotiation,’ as he was setting a trap for me. Duke Moriarty likely had arranged for a meeting recorder to be in the next room, documenting our conversation, which would have become a handle for the conservatives to impeach me, so I absolutely could not afford to admit it just now,"

Lanci whispered in response to Little Black Coal.

"Meow."

Cat Boss had an epiphany.

There were indeed such traps.

You were lucky, kid, to have realized it just in time, or else the parliamentary score might have plummeted by 100 and declared game over.

"As for diplomacy, it’s mainly because it takes a long time. The above four indicators usually take days to measure, but if you choose the diplomatic route, it will consume weeks at least, and if it fails, it’s purely a waste of time with zero gain,"

Vice Dean Ron of the Sage Academy put away his pen, summarizing the conclusions they had drawn over the past two days.

He glanced at Dean Loren sitting in the main chair of the conference room, then at the silver-haired woman from the Church of the Goddess of Destiny next to him—the legendary Lady Saint of the Northern Continent—and decided not to say anything more.

He knew that at this moment, Dean Loren was already overwhelmed.

Ever since rushing back to the Capital City Ekrite and then returning to the emergency meeting room of the Sage Academy, Loren had barely spoken a word.

This Seventh-order Shadow World was no longer just an internal meeting of the Sage Academy. Professors from the Magic Engineering College and the Alchemy College were also invited to discuss and analyze the situation in real-time.

They needed to provide feedback to the South Continental Kingdom Union Council and the Shadow World Management Association. If the Shadow World plunged into a rampage or lost control, causing unpredictable natural disasters, the Council and the Association would be ready to respond to the aftermath of the disaster immediately.

Currently, according to their assessment, this Shadow World was not an ordinary Seventh-order, but one of extreme strategic difficulty.

"Loren..."

The Bingxue Witch clenched her teeth as she sat next to Loren. She had followed him to the conference room of the Ichrite Academy, seemingly causing the surrounding air temperature to drop.

She initially planned to take her time visiting Ekrite on the South Continent to check on Hyperion’s living conditions. She did not expect to be hit by a bolt from the blue as soon as she arrived in the Hutton Kingdom.

Upon learning the situation, she almost choked Loren, demanding that he return her Hyperion.

There wasn’t a live broadcast on Hyperion’s side. It seemed she did not want to record her surroundings, and currently, only Lanci’s condition was visible. They didn’t even know if Hyperion was still safe.

"..."

Now, Loren was sweating profusely, sitting on pins and needles.

He didn’t know how he was going to survive the next forty days.

He had hoped that after spending half a year, Lanci would have learned quite a few new skills and perhaps had some hope of getting through the Seventh-order Shadow World. However, seeing Lanci’s first day in this Shadow World, his heart grew even colder.

This Shadow World favored strategy and mechanics over combat; even if he were thrown in, it wasn’t likely that he could have much hope of getting through because he couldn’t possibly fight the entire Huo Ning Empire alone.

He not only did not understand why Lanci had suddenly returned and started stirring things up again, but also felt as though he was about to begin fighting against the whole world.

The Hutton nobility, the King, the Kingdom Association, the Church, everyone was bombarding him with questions!