Shepherd Tantra

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.

The news of Aiwass's assassination was finally no longer suppressed, but was released all at once. The Giant Tree Party relied on its influence in the public opinion circle to push the relevant news out as much as possible. Under the suppression of death threats, their work efficiency was amazingly high.

In a short time, newspapers were flying around like snowflakes, and the news spread all over Iris. Even those who rarely read newspapers would hear comments about this incident from various places.

In this era without the Internet, many people don't even know about the previous two assassinations - mainly because Speaker Pierre would quietly suppress the news before. After all, he is the leader of the Hawkeye organization, and naturally does not want Hawkeye to attract too much dissatisfaction and hatred. And this time he really can't keep Hawkeye, so he can only cut it up and sell it back.

It was not until then that people realized how close the iris was to destruction.

This time, the experts no longer tried to cover up by exaggerating their own military strength, but instead tried their best to publicize the terror of the Theocracy and the New Empire - they used Star Antimony as an example. The Iris people may not understand the Theocracy, but their fear of Star Antimony is deep-rooted.

The Theocracy only needs to send out 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.

At the same time, the experts also specifically explained that although Aiwass stepped down from the position of Pope, it did not mean that he was expelled or impeached. They explained in detail the second assassination attempt on the Pure White Saint, and finally made it clear why Aiwass had the opportunity to take the position in the first place - he was the "placeholder Pope" who replaced the assassinated Pure White Saint, and after the Pure White Saint's injury healed, Aiwass automatically abdicated and handed the position of Pope to the original Pope.

In other words, he himself is the direct descendant of the contemporary Pope.

In fact, Aiwass was able to serve as Pope because he borrowed the authority of the current Pope. This is not because his power was taken away, but the opposite - because he abdicated in time, Aiwass now has a very high status in the Church State, and can even be said to be second to none, and enjoys the dual treatment of the current cardinal and the outgoing Pope.

...Although this statement is still somewhat different from the facts, it is the easiest statement for Iris people to understand.

But the Iris people thought about it and suddenly realized that something was wrong - how come these three assassinations were all centered around Aiwass? Two assassinations of Aiwass, one of which was to assassinate the contemporary Eternal Pope, was it because they were afraid that we would not die!

No matter how you look at it, this behavior seems like a deliberate attempt to provoke 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 outraged.

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, they dared to kill the king's family, so others naturally had no psychological burden - after all, wasn't Hawkeye's original slogan to fight against the Son of the Moon? Now that the Son of the Moon is gone, there is no need for you.

As a result, the liquidation of Hawkeye was met with almost no hindrance. One after another, young assassins were captured from sewers, safe houses, residential buildings, or warehouses, and beheaded in batches.

Their names, true identities and crimes will be published in the next day's newspapers.

Who was greedy for money and broke into a house to rob, killed the whole family and took 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 decisively, and who killed people, set fire to people, and raped people's wives and daughters...

Although the Iris people had long heard about Hawkeye's misconduct... their understanding of his evil deeds was still not comprehensive enough.

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 have received the grace of the Blood Sky Master, they can no longer satisfy their instincts through various pleasures like the Moon Sons sent by the Banquet Master... Instead, it becomes a negative feedback of "if I don't do this, I will feel uncomfortable" just like a smoking addiction. On the one hand, they crave power and grace, but on the other hand, they are jealous of humans and their other "normal" compatriots.

They have twisted desires in their hearts, and their radicalism even surpasses that of the Sons of the Moon at the end of the Hellassar Empire.

In this case, being captured and made into a blood slave basically meant a tragic death. It might even be a pleasant relief, so that people could only ask Hawkeye to do justice.

But what people don't know is that Hawkeye is also a coward. Contrary to their propaganda of "fighting to the death with the Moon Child", 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 sucked the blood of voluntary sacrificers" were exterminated for this reason - they died under the joint strangulation of the Moon Children and Hawkeye. Not all Moon Children are willing to restrain their desires, and the existence of these pure Moon Children seems to remind them how sinful they are... and their harmlessness and weakness allow Hawkeye's assassins to kill good people and take credit, further accelerating Iris's bloody spiral of pain.

Each and every one of these were crimes committed by these beheaded assassins.

This does not even include those assassins who "just killed people after accepting the mission" - those assassins who just killed people after accepting the mission assigned by the organization and did not harm innocent people other than the mission targets in the process are now just imprisoned. No matter how many people they killed in the process, they were not sentenced to death.

——All those sentenced to death were scum who killed innocent people outside of their mission or abused their supernatural powers to do evil.

The sheer number of these people has completely overloaded the execution sites in major cities.

The blade of the guillotine had to be maintained more than six times a day using preservation or sharpening techniques. People even brought out the old gallows, but it was still not enough. Craftsmen built new gallows every day. The hanging bodies were put into bags and thrown into the underground cemetery - the hometown of the assassins.

No matter where these assassins hide, they cannot escape.

——Because the person who went to arrest them was Hawkeye’s top assassin.

All the hiding skills, anti-tracking skills, and stealth skills they mastered were meaningless to these master assassins.

They knew very well the methods of these evil followers under their command.

And now, these assassin masters have a new name -

——Watchman.

(End of this chapter)