Chapter 330 (1/2)

The eest city in the eastern region of the empire and the capital of the eastern province, Rawles City's situation was very chaotic right now

The Fla Warriors of the church had taken control of the entire city a couple of days ago and drove off the earrison had thirty thousand locals stationed here, but the eastern province was indeed an area where the church had the most powerful influence The entire eastern province had the highest nuarrison, this was the case

Aarrisons, there were five thousand devout followers Part of the reason was the church had deliberately infiltrated the local garrison with a group of their own so as to strengthen the infiltration of poithin the ee nuicians from the church suddenly rose in revolt, they rapidly seized control of the arrison soldiers

It could be said that in Rawles City where the church was deeply rooted, the government which was loyal to the empire's royal family was stunned by the attack Before they could assemble the army, they were already defeated The five thousand devout followers lurking in the army took the lead in arrisons could not do anything at all

Once the church took control of Rawles City, they iovernment and several arrested aristocrats

And now, this city had becoion of the e Warriors kept heading towards Rawles City According to prelihest number of military force had once reached a hundred thousand This did not include the devout followers, a portion of believers, and the anization

With Rawles City being the center, large nuht the fire of rebellion of the church everywhere in the eastern province Within less than a week, half of the territories in the eastern province had fallen into the control of the church

Now above the Rawles City walls, the thorn flower flags which were the symbol of the Radiant Empire, could not be seen anyed to the province's governor had been burnt down, and the new central authority was set up within the original church Militia wearing sleeve badges of the church could be seen walking on the streets They wore long white robes and pointed hats, and in their hands were swords and weapons taken froarrison's military armory They now acted as the security patrol soldiers

Fro various fervent speeches and instigating the masses at the square in the center of Rawles City Of course, in these speeches, the royal family of the Radiant Empire was accused without exception as the core of evil who blaspheainst Gods' will

Traces of destruction could be seen everywhere in the streets of the city There werepiles of rubbish on the streets and people scurrying about

It was apparent that the church was ed to seize control power due to its deep-rooted influence in the eastern province, they were not capable ofa city To be frank, they were excellent saboteurs They had driven out the Eovernment officials, dissolved the institution, and disrupted the original syste However, no other effective ious fanatics had transfore statue of Abas the Emperor, which was erected in the middle of the city square, was demolished, and the stones were transported to the city walls as aholy war…

The church had even given out weapons publicly They recruited devout followers of God a the ordinary civilians to take up arainst the Empire

Unfortunately, no matter how hard the missionaries shouted at the point of weapon distribution, there were only a scarce feho responded They had only ed to recruit less than three hundred people in a week, and half of these were street thugs who joined for the sake of the generous pay

Anyhoithout a doubt, the whole of Rawles City was shrouded in a fanatical religious ates could be spotted around every corner of the city Various slogans and piles of rubbish on the streets could be spotted too This was because the original governovernment formed by the church was busy with much more important y to spare to take care of trivial matters such as rubbish on the streets

The situation in all other cities of the eastern province where the church took control was almost similar to Rawles City

Of course, there was another distinct characteristic in the eastern province As this was the stronghold of the traditional influences of the church and also where the holy war erupted, the power of the vampire tribe in the entire eastern province became unprecedentedly weak They had ale slowly exited froate of Rawles City The curtain was drawn at the corner of one , and a pair of char h… these lunatics,” a graceful voice sighed inside the carriage, ”Do they think they can hold off the e queue was forhtly packed croaited interrogation to enter or exit the city

The church had set up a new surveillance systeate tax was also implemented

When the church first expelled the Ee aious charlatans did not kno to allocate the funds They had spent large amounts of money to repair the city walls, recruit militias and also hoard h, they realized that their pockets had becoan to levy taxes!

Not only did the traditional religious contribution tax increase by thirty percent, those entering and leaving the city had to pay a certain a fro to enter and leave the city gate, they were very unhappy about this

Old Skeleton had said that religion was illusory Once it involved actual survival interests, most people will abandon this eious fanatics in this world