As soon as Faxul got the message, he couldn't believe what he had heard.
He knew exactly the task that Daneel had set for himself, and he hadn't been envious of him at all, as he had known that it was something that would definitely take a lot of time and effort.
In fact, he had been doubtful if Daneel would even be able to pull it off.
Yet, now he was supposed to believe that it was all over in just three days?
When they had talked, Daneel had said that he would have to go to each and every family that was in support of being happy with the state of the kingdom, and use Mind Control to introduce thoughts in their mind to sway them in the opposite direction. As for how he would identify the stance of each family in the first place, he said that it would be using the data from the display trinkets that he had already deployed in each and every village and town in the Black Raven Kingdom in preparation to hijack those that the King of Axelor would definitely deploy.
Even with the plexity of a Warrior, going through the footage of a village, magnifying and separating the audio inputs from each house and then assessing these inputs to make a decision regarding what side they were on - all of this would definitely take a considerable amount of time that made it seem as if this task that he had set for himself was impossible, and would take months to acplish.
Even with the help of Hero-level Drakos, this timeline might be cut short to a few weeks, and even this would be a miracle.
But three days? How?!
Faxul had no idea, and he was pretty sure that he might not be getting an answer, either, from his friend, who would almost definitely brush it off and give some random explanation.
Even with the calm that he had adopted after the baptism, he had needed a few moments to recover from the shock, but just as he was about to get back to normal and begin to do his part, he received another message which seemed like an afterthought.
"And, oh, you don't need to worry about riots breaking out before we want them to. Like we discussed, I did that thing to make those kinds of families and people decide to take a step back and wait to see what happens."
What!? He had done that, too?
Was he even human?
At this point, realizing that such questions were futile, Faxul just sighed and let it go, before deciding to hurry up with his own task so that he wouldn't stall them.
He was supposed to find out about all the recent purges, and those who had been affected by them, and for that reason, he was currently in the government records of the Kingdom of Axelor.
His excuse in ing here was that he wanted to see for himself how effective these purges were, and because Arnold was quite busy looking for ways to increase the satisfaction level to the point he wanted without having to wait, he had had a certain period of freedom where he had already gone through most of the details that were listed here.
He wasn't even reading through them all, as Daneel and he had both expected that he might not have too much of a chance to do that. Hence, he was using a specially designed trinket that was recording the image of each page while he flipped through them, which was something he was doing discreetly after making sure that there was no one else present in the room.
As for the data trinkets, he simply copied them.
Thankfully, he was done in a few hours, which made it so that he could get on to doing his part even though his friend was way ahead of schedule.
Well, it was true that they should finish all of this as soon as possible, so that variables wouldn't e into effect.
With that thought, Faxul took a deep breath and proceeded to the throne room, where the King could be seen gazing at all the display trinkets in the room, that were showing the scenes of the various regions and towns in the Black Raven Kingdom.
Right now, the King was in mand, but that changed as soon as Faxul entered.
The doors closed, and because the Minister was out on an errand, they were alone.
All of that calmness of Arnold's was gone, replaced by frustration that this plan in which he had placed so many hopes wasn't going as well as he had thought just a few days ago.
Waving his hand in the direction of the display trinkets, he said, "Time doesn't seem to be having any change, old bird. How can these people be so obstinate? Why do they insist on not being satisfied that they are at least alive? Why can't they be like the people of this Kingdom, who are so easy to handle?"
Hearing this, Faxul almost widened his eyes with pleasant surprise.
He had been thinking that he might have to find a way to make Arnold think in this way, but he had forgotten that this man was also supposed to be as adept in scheming as the best of them from that time.
And someone like that… would definitely wish for something like this, as soon as they saw that things weren't going their way.
In response, Faxul first stared at a few of the display trinkets, taking note of how there were even more families now that wanted to support those who wished to show their displeasure in some way, so that they could get answers or some sort of reply from the King. Clearly, Daneel had done his job, and it was even more impressive now that he witnessed it with his own eyes.
After that, shaking his head, he said, "You're right, Arnold. Even I underestimated how block-headed all of these people are. You already know that I was going through the records of all the purges you carried out here, right?"
In response to this, Arnold nodded, waiting for him to continue and state why he was bringing this up.
"I was doing so because even I was thinking about the worst-case, and it's obvious that that has clearly e to be. Your purges were always very effective in putting a lot of fear in the minds of these people, so that they would just be glad that they were not the ones targeted. This, in turn, had quite a considerable effect on the satisfaction level, which allowed you to break the two seals. Now, you said that all we need is 9%, right?"
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