Chapter 1154: The New Watcher Organization
June 18th.
It was three days ago that Aiwass was interviewed and met with Speaker Pierre.
From that day on, the iris flower underwent a drastic change—
News of Aiwass's assassination attempt was finally no longer suppressed, but was released all at once. The Giant Tree Party, leveraging their influence in the media, pushed the news as far as they could. Despite the threat of death, their work efficiency was astonishingly high.
In no time, newspapers were flying around like snowflakes, spreading all over Iris. Even those who rarely read newspapers would hear comments about this incident from various sources.
In this pre-internet age, many people weren't even aware of the two previous assassination attempts—primarily because Chancellor Pierre had previously suppressed the news. After all, as the leader of the Hawkeye organization, he naturally didn't want Hawkeye to attract too much discontent and hatred. This time, he simply couldn't keep Hawkeye, so he had no choice but to dismember and sell him off.
It was not until then that people realized how close the irises were to destruction.
This time, the experts no longer tried to cover up the situation by exaggerating their own military might, but instead did their best to publicize the formidable nature of the Theocracy and the New Empire—using Star Antimony as an example. The Iris people might not understand the Theocracy, but their fear of Star Antimony was deeply ingrained.
The Theocracy only needs to deploy one frigate to directly defeat the entire navy of Star Antimony; and the Theocracy only had three such frigates a year ago, but now it has increased to eighteen, and is still under construction.
Experts also specifically explained that while Aiwass had stepped down from the papacy, this did not mean he had been expelled or impeached. They detailed the second assassination attempt on the White Saint, ultimately clarifying why Aiwass had the opportunity to ascend to the papacy in the first place—he was a "placeholder pope" in place of the assassinated White Saint. After the White Saint recovered from her injuries, Aiwass abdicated and handed the papacy to the original pope.
In other words, he himself is the direct descendant of the contemporary Pope.
Aiwass's ability to become Pope was actually due to the authority of the current Pope. This wasn't a loss of power, but rather the opposite. Because of his timely abdication, Aiwass now holds an extremely high position within the Church, perhaps even second only to the Pope, enjoying the dual treatment of both a sitting Cardinal and a former Pope.
...Although this statement still deviates to a certain extent from the facts, it is the easiest statement for Iris people to understand.
But the Iris people thought about it for a moment and suddenly realized something was wrong. How come these three assassinations were all centered around Aiwass? Two assassinations of Aiwass, one of which was an assassination of the contemporary Eternal Pope, are they really just trying to kill us?
No matter how you look at it, this behavior seems like it's deliberately provoking a fight!
Even if they fail to attract the target once, they will still try every possible means to attract the target a second and third time!
What is your intention!
People were furious.
You said that Aiwass was assassinated, and the Iris people just smiled - who cares about you, people die every day here, you haven't seen it, you bumpkin.
But you said that if Aiwass really died, Iris would be razed to the ground by the elven warships without any resistance, and all the surrounding countries would become enemies to the death - then the people of Iris would understand instantly.
——I see, it’s just about killing Hawkeye’s entire family.
This is also the biggest advantage of the Iris people... they really have no sense of awe.
After all, if they dared to kill the king's entire family, then others would naturally have no psychological burden - after all, wasn't Hawkeye's original slogan about fighting against the Son of the Moon? Now that the Son of the Moon is gone, there is no need for you, right?
As a result, the liquidation of Hawkeye encountered almost no obstacles.
One after another, young assassins were captured from sewers, safe houses, residential houses, or warehouses, and beheaded in batches.
Their names, true identities and crimes will be published in the next day's newspapers.
Who was so greedy that they broke into a house, robbed it, killed an entire family, and then took all the property for themselves? Who obeyed a company executive and stole the patented technology of an individual inventor? Who kidnapped a wealthy businessman and then killed him? Who killed, set fire to, and raped someone's wife and daughter?
Although the Iris people had long heard about "Hawkeye's inaction"... their understanding of his evil deeds was still incomplete.
After all, the Moon Children were not human. In order to offer sacrifices to the Blood Sky Master and to heal the hunger and pain in their hearts, they cruelly tortured others.
Once they've received the Blood Sky Master's favor, they can no longer satisfy their instincts through various forms of pleasure like the Moon Children, sent by the Banquet Master... Instead, it becomes a negative feedback loop, like a smoking addiction: "If I don't do this, I'll feel bad." On the one hand, they crave power and favor, but on the other, they envy humans and their other "normal" kin.
They are filled with twisted desires, so radical that they even surpass the Moon Children of the late Hellassar Empire.
In this situation, being captured and made into a blood slave basically meant a tragic death. It might even be a welcome relief, so much so that people could only ask Hawkeye for justice.
But what people don't know is that Hawkeyes are also cowards. Contrary to their propaganda of "fighting the Moon Child to the death", many Hawkeyes even collude with the Moon Child!
They did not dare to offend those Sons of the Moon who had obtained the magic of the Blood Sky Master and were indeed evil but extremely powerful. So, under the intentional or unintentional guidance of these Sons of the Moon who were jealous of their own kind, they killed those relatively gentle Sons of the Moon.
Those Moon Children of the Hengwo sect, who "only drank the blood of willing sacrifices," were exterminated for this very reason—they perished under the combined stranglehold of the Moon Children and Hawkeye. Not all Moon Children were willing to restrain their desires, and the very existence of these pure Moon Children seemed to remind them of their sinfulness... Their harmlessness and weakness allowed Hawkeye's assassins to kill innocent people and claim credit, further accelerating Iris's bloody spiral of pain.
Each and every one of them were crimes committed by these beheaded assassins.
This doesn't even include those assassins who "simply killed after accepting a mission"—those assassins who simply killed after accepting a mission assigned by the organization, and who didn't harm any innocent people other than their targets, are now simply imprisoned. No matter how many people they killed in the process, they were not sentenced to death.
——All those sentenced to death are scum who killed innocent people outside of their mission or abused their extraordinary abilities to do evil.
The sheer number of these people has completely overloaded the execution grounds in major cities.
The guillotine blade had to be preserved or sharpened six times a day. Even the old gallows were brought out, but it still wasn't enough. Craftsmen built new gallows daily. The hanging bodies were bagged and thrown into the catacombs—the Assassins' home.
No matter where these assassins hid, they could not escape.
——Because the person who went to capture them was Hawkeye’s top assassin.
All the hiding skills, anti-tracking skills, and stealth skills they mastered were meaningless to these assassin masters.
They knew very well the methods of these evil followers under their command.
And now, these assassin masters also have a new name -
——Watchman.
I haven't finished writing it yet, there's a second chapter! I'll post it around 1 a.m.
(End of this chapter)
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