Chapter 345 Not Going Well
The next day, the god-tamers conducted a random sampling survey with 4,000 participants. It was apparently an initial survey to see who got the most supporters.
From the results, I felt slightly troubled.
Karran Helios got 26% of the votes, with Millinda Quartz getting 33%. Maximillian got 13%, and I got 23%. Finally, the 5% that voted for Ying Yue instead. Looking at the statistics, it was Millinda who got the most support at the moment.
"It seems like Ying Yue has some loyal supporters."
I muttered as I analyzed the results.
With this, even if I combine my and Ying Yue's shares, we're still far from beating Millinda. If we can also grab Max's 13%, then we'll be taking home the win for sure.
Rather, Max already announced that he backed out of the election, so why were they still voting for him? I'm worried about those voters' heads. Ying Yue was going around with me when campaigning, so she might've gotten some exposure, earning her the 5% votes.
Still, just like Max, Ying Yue was officially out of the race too. The battle was now only a fight against me, the Helios, and the Quartz. Although there are fewer competitors now, looking at it based on numbers alone, I'm not doing so well.
"... Are the commoners not willing to risk going against the nobles or something?"
That's the only reason I could think of that would hold them back from giving me their support.
With that pressuring me, I restarted my campaign once more.
Visiting towns I haven't yet, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of each propaganda, and promising that I would protect the commoners willing to fight with me and topple the current noble society.
I made sure to brainwash—I mean, convince everyone in the areas I visited to vote for me. Of course, I wasn't using skills or anything illegal, but it was still easy to gain their pledges. After all, with an entire army of succubus girls along with me, everyone would end up being enamored, regardless of gender.
Furthermore, I also have the backing of four god tamers in the background. With the four most famous personalities in the entire kingdom giving me their full support, I'm already set to win this thing.
Cheating? Making use of uncontrollable natural abilities wasn't banned, which included luck and connections. Anyway, it's safe! Rather, it was Millinda who was cheating. From what intel the shadows have gathered, she seems to be brainwashing everyone to vote for her.
Zeshion caught wind of this fact and wanted to eliminate her from the race, but I stopped him immediately.
"If you did that, her hypnotized voters would be free for the picking. And weighing a newbie like me and a veteran like Karran, it's as clear as day who those guys would vote for instead."
"Hmm... That's true. So we should just let the voters vote for her and then invalidate her candidacy for violation of rules afterward?"
"Exactly!"
With that, although a large chunk of votes would be invalidated, the contest between me and Karran would become simpler.
"Try and get more solid proofs of her violation to make sure she can't appeal her innocence later. While you do that, I'll handle Karran's side."
Zeshion nodded to my request and quickly moved out. It wasn't that he was following my command, but rather that it was the only thing he could do, as it was literally a part of his duty.
After that, although I said I'd handle Karran, I actually didn't do anything against him personally. After all, I was busy campaigning around... Inside his territory.
What? Sneaky? No, I'm not sneaking around but campaigning out in the open. Of course, since it's technically the enemy's home ground, it's harder to do campaigns. However, we aren't doing anything against the rules. After all, there's no rule saying you can only campaign within your own territory.
The Seimei's shadows also worked at the same time, leaking out the information that I and Karran were vying for votes on each other's territories to Millinda. When she got wind of this, she quickly moved and did the same, trying to squish both competitors at once.
Well, what can I say? Everything is going according to my plan.
With this, Millinda would go and gather more "brainwashed" voters, which is technically burying herself deeper into trouble. I don't care much about those from Karran's territory, but those from mine have already been completely under my wing.
No matter what the others did, they would be unable to sway my people to vote for them. In short, in this free-for-all, I'm currently having the greatest advantage. Millinda was wasting her effort trying to snatch my voters while helping me lessen Karran's. Literally two birds with one stone.
"Do you really want to abolish the nobility? With your current display, I think you'd do well as a dictator or something."
Even Zeshion was now able to joke around, seeing that I was slowly gaining the upper hand, even in just the quantity of raw votes.
Just like that, days went by, and my tired self finally gained a little bit of rest. Of course, I'm still doing publicity stunts, but the remaining things we needed to do were basically left to the succubus army and the shadows. I myself don't have much left to do.
Honestly, right now, other than dying before the election, nothing seems to be able to stop my rise.
Days went by, and the busiest moment finally approached. The last three days before the campaign period! There, I finally pulled all stops and went around undoing the brainwashing of Millinda's voters before "brainwashing" them to be my voters.
I'm not lowering myself to her level, though. I wasn't using skills, after all.
Other than that, I also went around preparing some "backups" and "trump cards" in case something weird happened during the election. With those added, I was literally heading into a winning battle.
Finally, the day of the election came.
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