Chapter 165 - 089. Church Of Caiolium (1/2)
Chapter 165: 089 Church of Caiolium -2 (Part One)
The Church of Caioliuion of the Theocratic Empire
The holy temple constructed amidst the lush forest was y It was to serve as a safe haven where one could receive the training regarding one’s faith
The building was constructed all those years ago so that Gaia could be worshi+pped in peace but now, in this once-sacred place, a deeply obscene and sacrilegious spectacle was taking place
“Here, here, here~! Here coy around in a drunken stupor His fellow priests stared at hiuffawed out uncontrollably
They didn’t hold back with their consuold coins around All sorts of obscene and indecent chatter were exchanged a the group
Unlike the rest, he was dressed for a wooden crosier
He took some distance away fro the unholy disorder, and studiously read the contents of various docu the current ongoings within the Theocratic Eht his attention
“…Holy undead?”
Mikael contehtly
Since he was initially worried about the report being wrong, he had it double, triple checked for authenticity However, the reports on the sightings of various holy undead continued to pile up before him
Which could only mean that these holy undead really did exist
As for the one who summoned them…
‘…The Seventh Imperial Prince, Allen Olfolse’
None other than the heir to the Imperial Family bloodline had summoned those creatures
Mikael sed back his dry saliva
What in the world…! Holy undead?! What an oic that no Saints or Saintesses in history ed to pull off!
No, it definitely was no holy ritted his teeth Because of these so-called holy undead, he could feel the Ile day
This sort of thing couldn’t be good news for the Church of Caiolium at all
After all, the Church wished to become fully independent froht to ainst Aslan
The kingdom down south craved fertile, verdant land, and the Third Imperial Prince desired the throne of the Holy Emperor Meanwhile, the Church of Caiolium wanted independence and political influence
All the parties involved had soht
The plan was to hand over a portion of the eotiation, had the invasion proved to be successful
Then, Third Imperial Prince Ruppel would’ve been pushed forward as the protagonist responsible for ending the war through diploed, and the Church would have wholeheartedly supported him so that he could become the next Holy Emperor
Finally, the Third Iranted the Church its full independence
Everything seemed to be on track for a successful resolution, when it all suddenly went off the rails in quick order
The Imperial Fa its power base and garnering the support of the ed with treason and was currently under arrest
On top of that, the Imperial Family made another move; it lured the Darina household and all the nobles affiliated with thehteredones were currently being tortured, in order to ferret out any other potential traitors still hiding in the Imperial Court That’s what the reports had said
In other words, Kelt Olfolse had begun his purge
‘However, we still have an opportunity’
The Church of Caiolium had been the backer of Third Imperial Prince Ruppel, and as such, they had no e
‘We shall oppose the Holy Eth to defend against the Holy Emperor Mikael briefly rolled up his sleeve and looked at his hand More specifically, he stared at the golden runic letters engraved on the skin of his hand, which seemed to extend all the way to the core of his body
It was a copy of the ‘Aztal Rune’, miraculous runic letters that Goddess Gaia had supposedly bestowed on a Saint in the ancient times
This powerful runic ‘tattoo’ had been finally coinal plan was to use this power to keep the Holy Emperor at bay
‘Besides, we also have a pretext’
A pretext the Church could use to suppress the Imperial Family!
And that was…
“The Seventh Ined a contract with the devil”
A s able to summon holy undead? The status of a Saint? Resurrection enabled by the miracle of the Goddess?
All of these reatness of Goddess Gaia However, they were also nothing more than some delusions as well
A wry chuckle leaked out fro all thosecandy off a baby’s hands
The y were devout believers And what they were ainst was none other than the undead It didn’t really h sacred et rid of their repulsion of the undead creatures
Without having experienced it first hand, the priests would no doubt be motivated to ostracise and persecute the Seventh Ined a contract with the devil’
And once the ru the cause of the unfortunate war against Aslan spreads, it’d become very difficult to turn back the public sentiment in the Imperial Family’s favour
To top it all off, the I their best to hide the truth at thearound countless unsettling conspiracy theories were truly limitless
If the whole matter was orchestrated properly, then it could also become a possible justification to force the current Holy Emperor to abdicate as well
Mikael felt that his drea reality
His dreaanisation that possessed a separate, distinct political influence from the Imperial Family And that he’d becoanisation
‘I shall be the next pope’
That was the position Mikael drea