The negative rumors about Charlotte were spreading discreetly, very slowly, and maliciously. Since I didn’t want the rumors to start spreading within the castle, I designed it so that it would start from the outskirts to the center and from the small areas to the big areas. The task wasn’t difficult because the Black Swan Guild and Kasugano Yuno of the Yozora Guild were helping me. The Black Swan Guild was known as a guild with a wide information network, so this was their specialty and Yozora became pretty skilled in this field as well after taking over Ito Sota’s guild.

Of course, I didn’t openly control the media because it wasn’t the time to do that yet. The Blue and Red Mercenary Guild weren’t sitting still either. Since my movement was limited, Kim Hyun-Sung and Cha Hee-Ra were trying to convince Cheon Kwan-Wi and Yu Ran for me. Honestly, it didn’t matter if they sided with the second princess, but I thought that in the end, they would be with us since we were all players. If they were natives, they probably would have made a different choice, but they knew they couldn’t turn their backs on Lindel and Celia.

Naturally, spreading rumors wasn’t the only easy task we had to do. Creating fake information was also very easy. When creating this type of information, the most important was using the truth as the foundation. Rather than creating a false rumor without any foundation, adding information that people would question was more...