Chapter 344: Emergency Meeting in Western Continent (1/2)

While the Eastern Continent has turned into chaos and was completely subdued by the Church, it is night time in the western continent and the emperor had an extremely solemn face.

He called for an emergency court meeting and the rest of the imperial court officials and the nobles could see how serious he was.

There are even the four-tower heads and four former tower heads who are currently running Sam's network.

He called everyone important.

”Tonight, I called you at this wee hour, because I have an extremely important matter to tell you guys.

Approximately a week ago, we found an anomaly in the communication network, I am pretty sure that Sam's city hub might have also noticed this, and we also sent the technicians, but there is no response from them ever since.

I sent troops to investigate the matter and the news I got is extremely grave.

There are some weird people who are claiming themselves to be followers of the Church and are converting the normal people into cultivators forcefully.

A common man turned into a Novice overnight and since then the growth rate of their strength is extremely high.

They transformed twenty-one villages and, in every village, whoever was an eyewitness was robbed off of his memory and the rest of them are subdued forcefully.

Their target age groups are common men between fifteen years old and forty-five-year-old.

The troops I sent caught them red-handed and stopped their invasion forcefully. They captured the twenty-one heads and brought them back to the Imperial Palace today evening.”

He paused and looked around to get the reactions of the court and it seemed like he really got the undivided attention. They are all looking solemn.

”We used the Imperial family's secret methods to extract information from the soul and complied with all the data gathered through these twenty-one people.

The result is horrendous.

We discovered that the main aim of this church is to change all the common people into these cultivators, but they wouldn't be cultivators for long.

The leaders we caught all wore masks and these masked people are considered as priests within their system and the person who wears a golden mask will be a High Priest.

The people who are converted are called followers. This is their hierarchy”

Arc stopped his speech to let all of this sink in.

But someone spoke.

”Your highness, what is the purpose of gathering us this late at night if they are all caught and imprisoned. This sounded like a cult and from what you said, you already seemed to have subdued that cult, so what is the purpose of this meeting?”

”I will tell you that after I am finished with explaining about this church.

Even though we caught them, this is not their entire population, they are only spreading slowly because, they are extremely vigilant about the communication network, but actually there is another reason for them to tread this slowly and that is because their original network was actually eradicated by the empire before.”

Everyone exchanged glances. They didn't know that there is this sort of network existed and they even eradicated this before.

”The Blackwater.” Everyone was stunned.

”You heard me right, the underworld organization that spread throughout the empire was actually the base work for the church and all the twenty-one people who we caught now are the strays that escaped the previous crackdown. All of them are peak-stage Grand realm cultivators.

The main aim of their network is not to get their hands, on power, or to just earn some money.

Just imagine, if the Blackwater which has the former network and strength tried to deliberately force the commoners to eat these pills and made a move, the whole empire will be usurped before we knew it.

I am saying this, not because of the army they would obtain from this, but what they can do with the army.

The cultivators who are created with these pills will have certain qualities.