"I guess by daylight today, the headlines in Orean will be flooded with 'Mysterious Forces Invade the Orean Royal Capital' and 'Research Results Stolen from the Orean Research Institute.'
By that time, when the public delves into it, they'll discover that the lost research from the Orean Research Institute is so significant that it could change the international standing of Orean.
With a little more understanding, the 'uncle's party' will come out to expose, saying 'On the day in the large laboratories of the Alchemy Furnace, only the gnomes were not present, while the other two major forces suffered personnel losses.'
Conspiracy theories always have a market, no matter who started brewing the conspiracy originally, it will inevitably be pinned on the gnomes in the end.
The gnomes, who will provoke public outrage, will truly become a stench in society, to say nothing of the fact that they aren't exactly clean themselves.