The more they oppose, the more it shows that I am doing the right thing

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"Meow meow, you lowly gangsters meow~" the tattoo-covered, bare-chested thug with a face full of scars cursed angrily.

"Ara~ What a cute little boy~" the ruthless thug with a cheek scar and carrying a machete responded disdainfully.

The style has completely changed!

How could a fight possibly break out?

When there's excessive noise from the neighbors, audible on both sides, throw a [Friendly Exchange] over to them, and turn it into an adorable loli voice.

If they still won't change their ways and keep making noise, everyone can hear their loli voice—what a shameful soul punishment!

Lister and Arthur monopolized the market for beautiful and not-so-beautiful women with their magic, while An Su's magic totally dominated the male market!

After all, what man doesn't curse, and what man doesn't like loli or mature lady voices?

Without a doubt,

this is completely evil magic, on par with Lister's [Spatial Distortion], a forbidden art that must never be allowed to spread! Experience new tales on empire

Otherwise, the whole of Farol would be inundated with loli and mature lady voices.

The citizens all thought this way, outwardly resisting, yet unanimously voting for An Su, allowing them to receive this magic.

The reason is simple: they don't have to use it, but they can't be without it.

What if, when engaging in a verbal showdown, the other person uses [Friendly Exchange] and you have no countermeasure? Wouldn't that be a total disaster?

In an instant, An Su's votes surged.

One hundred votes, one hundred fifty votes...

And in the hearts of some voters, even darker and more sinister thoughts took root.

If they combine the inventions from the three border regions, fuse them into one—

Arthur's [Holy Light] censoring, Lister's [Spatial Distortion] photo editing, and An Su's [Friendly Exchange] voice changing,

they would create an entirely new faction.

They'd be invincible.

Even these greasy men could attract wealth from their admirers!

This is absolutely a match made in heaven!

No one can stop it, no one can compete.

Such chilling and terrifying thoughts began to spread through the crowd like bamboo shoots after rain, and more and more people, both men and women, turned paler as they realized the potential of this terrifying combination.

For regular human males, it's bad enough if their online romantic interest turns out to be a catfish, but what if it turns out to be a man, and after months of flirting, the person is actually a foot-scraping uncle? Their souls would wither in an instant!

For regular human females, in addition to women, they now have men as their competitors too!

This magical faction must never be allowed to emerge; seen separately, each of these three is already a forbidden art, each a unique life-forging skill. If combined, they would be a world-ending evil faction, making even the Cultists bow before them!

But as much as they said otherwise, their voting hands just couldn't stop; after all, they might not use it, but they couldn't be without it!

The emergence of An Su's [Friendly Exchange] radically shifted the balance, surging his votes, and boosting Lister and Arthur's as well.

This was the bond of synergy between the three of them, intuitively tormenting everyone in sync.

In just three minutes, An Su's votes were about to surpass two hundred, soon exceeding Priestess Ai Xueli, who was in third place.

The backstage staff watched in horror; the top three of this event couldn't all be non-union members, couldn't all just be common saints, else where would the union put its face... so they started to consciously lower An Su's votes.

And gradually shifted some of the votes to Ai Xueli.

Vote rigging is a skillful endeavor, they couldn't do it too obviously.

An Su's vote increase trend gradually slowed, stabilizing at two hundred ten votes, in fourth place.

Ai Xueli, three hundred votes, in third place.

Lister, three hundred sixty votes, in second place.

Arthur, four hundred votes, in first place.

"It's finally coming to an end," the priest wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Ai Xueli, who was still in the dark about the machinations, understood that An Su's performance wasn't over yet.

An Su had mentioned 'healing of both body and spirit'; to her understanding of his nature, this translated to 'torment of both body and spirit.'

The torment of the spirit had already been demonstrated by An Su.

But the torment of the body had yet to be displayed by An Su.

As expected, An Su coughed lightly, his lips still curved in that radiant sunny smile, "Nevertheless, there are still plenty of stubborn neighbors who can make noise even without talking."

He looked around at the sea of citizens before the stage, speaking gently:

"For example, the noise of renovations, jumping rope, hammering walls; in these cases, simply altering your neighbor's speaking voice won't be effective."

Did this youth have another ace up his sleeve?

The citizens watched An Su warily; this time, they wouldn't be deceived by the youth's innocent smile again.

Who would have imagined, that a boy with such a sunny smile could create such hellish magic.

But he was right.

Many times, the noise isn't the sound of a neighbor talking, but various objects colliding.

This too is a major headache for the citizens.

Local governments have also focused on solving this problem, constructing sound barriers, planting trees... all to eliminate noise, but these were too costly and ultimately went unresolved.

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