Chapter 149: Vulnerable

There have been two big news stories lately.

Strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as one big and one small, and the small one may not even be considered around the gossip in ordinary times...... However, when combined with big news, the problem is quite serious.

The big news comes from Cape Kane. The thriving chamber of commerce has finally declared war on the Magic Daily, the only industry they haven't touched in the Blue City, and now it has finally ushered in the coveting and prying eyes of Kane's Horn.

Rumors spread that Kane's Horn was planning to start a newspaper in the near future called Smaneus.

Just listening to the name, the Pharans can guess with their toes that it has an unspeakable secret relationship with the "Bignius" of the Jialan Academy.

And then there's the little news.

Many second-hand dealers have discovered that many of the familiar faces who are active in the Magic Daily and who represent the old newspaper have quietly changed employers and followed Mr. Robert's ass in Cain's Corner......

And the latter, I heard, is the person in charge of the "Smauius Project".

As soon as the two were combined, things suddenly made people can't help but let out a "Oh ~ so ......".

Fa Lan City is about to change.

Kane's Horn didn't just declare war on the Magic Daily, but it also reached into the opponent's pocket and pulled out a lot of things...... It's a terrible act.

In the world of newspapers, Kane's Horn is undoubtedly a beginner, and needs to cross the river by feeling the stones. But the people of the "Magic Daily" are quite familiar with this aspect, but this familiarity can be plundered.

The Magic Daily has been in a non-competitive environment for many years, and the management has never been aware of the danger. The management, who are generally over 50 years old, are a group of old antiques who are good at playing tricks and tricks, between politicians and businessmen, and naturally do not focus on product and technological innovation, and they will put most of the work pressure of the Magic Daily on young people, squeezing their potential as much as possible, so that they have no time to think nonsense.

And the reason why they are so unscrupulous is because there is no second place for this group of young people to go except for the Magic Daily. It is this kind of unscrupulousness that gives them more energy and more money to build relationships, and strangle competitors who are still in the embryonic stage in advance, forming a field that they see as unassailable.

Even the Horns of Kane were met with strong resistance when they tried to get their hands on this field, and they chose to give up decisively after considering the gains and losses.

No one wants to snatch food from a mad dog, especially if you're not hungry and just want to find some snacks.

But this time, the challenger appeared so suddenly that the newspaper lost a large number of vital forces before it had time to react, and it was almost paralyzed.

In this case, it is not an exaggeration to say "sudden death, death on the spot".

Many people have already speculated that the name "Smanius" may have something to do with Seraf, and only in this way will Kane's Horn have the confidence to compete with the giant crocodile of the industry like the Magic Daily.

Two of the most intriguing pieces of Bignus are "A Song of Frost and Fire", which is a household name in the city of Faran, and Seraf's charts.

Needless to say, although "A Song of Frost and Fire" was only published in the school newspaper, it circulated in the city through various channels with far more than 3,000 copies. According to Downey, the "ink head" in charge of printing in Copper Fire Lane, he has been stealing tens of thousands of copies of the same content every three days in the past few months alone, and you can imagine how many potential readers this story has.

Now that Kane's Horn has made a move, there is no need for them to notify them one by one, and the pirates in Copper Fire Alley are rushing to roll up one by one, and a few people who have a strong desire to survive have personally sent the money they have earned these days to Robert's house.

They all know who is the real controller behind Gray Street, and they also know that their tricks can't be hidden from each other.

It can be said that who is not a reader of "A Song of Frost and Fire" in today's French Blue City, or who does not know the major events happening on the continent of Westeros, is really more ignorant than the mountain people of Nisol, after all, even Lawrence II is a big fan of it.

As for the rankings, their influence is much more than just talking about it, it is deeper and more far-reaching.

At first, only Shadow Footsteps and the Mercenary Association had their eyes on this list, but anyone who had shown up on it and had a good performance would be invited and assessed by them. It turns out that this group of young people is indeed far better than their peers, and what is even more commendable is that they have a mature temperament - the kind of maturity that has seen the world, as a warrior, will not tremble with blood, and as scouts, will not jump up because of a disgusting bug crawling next to them.

They have seen too many rookies who have been labeled as "geniuses", and these people can be called elite in comparison.

What really detonated public opinion was Lucien's time.

If there is anyone in the young generation of the past ten years in the past ten years who can have the reputation of Mu Yan now, it is only Lucian a few years ago.

He is a genius, a one-of-a-kind genius, the future heir of the Clark family, the most outstanding and excellent young man in the Horse Plain, and has been voted the man most wanted to marry by women of the right age in Falan City four times in a row, not to mention that Lucien himself is a cool man of few words.

It's this kind of cold man who doesn't seem to be interested in any entertainment, and after hearing about Seraf, he actually made a special trip back to school to brush the first place in the arena list! After that, he couldn't get enough of it, and tried to challenge the dragon again.

According to people familiar with the matter, Lucien was devastated when he left Seraf that day, with a deep shock on his face, and it was clear that Seraf's simulated dragon had been approved by him.

It's a great piece of publicity that is hard to find with a flint! After all, it was said that the genius mage had seen a real dragon, and in this way, Seraf's authority immediately rose a notch.

Since then, people have used Seraf's list as a criterion when discussing "which kid" is better, and over time, even the Jialan military has paid attention to this.

Then, the nature of the matter changed again.

In addition to secretly spending money to swear allegiance to the baron, joining the army is the most formal way to obtain "knighthood", not to mention that after accumulating military merits, you can also strive for a higher noble status.

People prefer exaggerated rumors to serious facts. As a result, the gossip spread and became a fact, and even whose child was recruited by the military because of his inclusion on Seraf's list has been spread to the nose and eyes, as if being on the list has changed from simple glory to a shortcut......

With such an exaggerated influence, no one would ignore "Smanius", and it can be said that this newspaper has already pressed such an enterprising predecessor as the Magic Daily to the ground before it was released.

On September 20th, the first copy of Smanius was sold in a weekly magazine from the drugstores, clothing stores, scroll shops, and alchemy workshops in the Cape of Kane all over the city, and for a time almost everyone in the city had a copy.

The newspaper and the Magic Daily are similar in style, after all, the same young people who made it. Although it doesn't have the unique texture of "Bignius", only the emblem of the moon in the lower right corner can tell its connection to Seraf, but the price is half that of "Bignius".

However, none of this matters, the content is what they focus on.

"Would you like to go to Westeros?"

"Do you want to experience the classical Klaman aristocratic life?"

"Do you remember the beautiful plots in "Tango Rose", "The Bloodstained Wedding Ring", and "The Prince's Revenge", and you aspire to be the protagonist in them?"

"Join the Chaldeans, become our member, and your dreams will be fulfilled in Seraf."

The newspaper wrote that almost every nobleman who saw it fell into a vertigo, a vertigo of happiness, for several seconds.

The shock on their faces cannot be described in words.

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On its first day of release, Smanius sold 47,000 copies, surpassing the best performance of the Magic Daily in more than 700 years. Robert joked that if it weren't a monthly magazine, the newspaper alone would be the second gold mine in Cape Kane.