The Martial Unity

The effects of one thousand Martial Squires dying was not small, and it rippled across the entirety of the Shionel Confederation.

Even as the elections arrived, Chairman Deacon spent his days placating the voters that he had already bought, doing everything he could in his power.

In order to not lose many of the most disaffected allies by his side, he needed to bleed capital, truly draining himself to keep them from denouncing supporting him.

However, he wasn't entirely successful, the number of allies on his side, both domestic and international, that had denounced was not insignificant.

Even if many of them weren't merchants who could vote, he had used their capital to buy many other voters.

For example, he used the support of many foreign and international nations to get better deals for entire sectors of merchants in the Shionel Confederation in exchange for their votes. Now, some of those deals were compromised by the national stakeholders withdrawing their support.

He desperately tried to fix all his problems by throwing more money and capital at them, while also compromising more and making even more promises to disgruntled voters.

Eventually, the three days of voting came to an end, and the votes were counted by the electoral committee of the Shionel Merchant Guild before the results were eventually announced and published.

[#1: Bradt Patrick: 428695 votes.

#2: Deacon Vernes: 427989 votes.

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had just barely managed to secure

Guildmaster Bradt and Chairman Deacon were, the

the layman didn't understand what that meant, those who possessed greater access to information and greater insight realized what

not for the massacre of the one thousand

a trump card shortly prior to the elections. The trump card

of a single Shionel Dungeon map that covered the entire Shionel Dungeon had impressed the entire nation. But

clever merchants of the Shionel Merchant Guild had understood what the

card to counter all of the titanic support that Chairman Bradt had amassed. It was just as powerful as a bargaining chip

inadvertently become the core of both Chairman Deacon and Guildmaster Bradt's campaigning

map that he had almost fully completed for Guildmaster Bradt had served as a riveting turnaround that bought back much of

with the devastating loss that Chairman Deacon had suffered had tipped the balance, allowing Guildmaster

THUD

his table as he continued banging them. "GOD DAMN IT

emotions that he had bottled up recently. He clutched his hair as he breathed hard, and unsteadily. His eyes were bloodshot, and

put in the last two years had been in vain. Not only had they been in vain, but they were also detrimental since he had truly gone out on a limb with the measures that he

been in the past ten years. He felt as though his heart was literally burning with

His secretary

didn't even deign to

put into investigating the Voider based on the intelligence that

That earned his attention.

hatred for the Voider