Perhaps even I didn't expect that some things would come so quickly. At the very least, I personally wasn't prepared for it.
Arguing with the Holy Church … Fine, calling it backstabbing wasn't wrong either. Although I had offended the Holy Church, I had at least expressed my attitude and proved my ability.
"At the very least, Wumianzhe's Church of Law has the ability to make the God of Holy Light temporarily tolerate them. They aren't pushovers that can be easily crushed. "
On the surface, all the major countries that worshipped the Holy Light expressed their condemnation of what happened that day … Yep, now, everything that happened that day had an official name: "The Shame of Soros."
Alright then, from this name alone, it could be seen that our pitiful Cardinal Roland had taken all the blame for this incident. But from a certain standpoint, he was destined to leave his name in the annals of history. Yep, he should thank me, Roland.
[It would seem that that performance was quite meaningful. At the very least, it helped Princess Peach become even more shameless. It would seem that you're not far from becoming undefeatable in terms of shamelessness.]
"Shut up! This new dark history has already been sealed. I'll show whoever dares to mention it!"
Although all the major powers were condemning me for being disrespectful to the Holy Light, their military orders hadn't decreased at all. In fact, it was quite the opposite. In private, all the secret envoys of the various emperors expressed their praise for me and promised to provide me with large amounts of resources. They also encouraged me and the Church of Law to continue attacking the Holy Church's reputation.
Of course, there were no contracts or promises on paper. However, I knew that as long as Wumianzhe's Church of Law was able to show hostility and threat towards the Holy Church, these verbal promises would be far more effective than a devil's contract. After all, any ruler would be truly dissatisfied with the Holy Church's reputation, which was even higher than that of a country's emperor.
What made people even more dissatisfied was that they could only hide their dissatisfaction in their hearts. They didn't even know where to start venting. In fact, they had to do their best to show their faith and respect towards the Holy Light and divine job class members in order to receive various benefits and support from the local churches.
When the Church of Holy Light became the most powerful religion in the world, and its believers occupied more than eighty percent of a country's population, the Church's authority would be so powerful that it could even judge the king as a heretic. Meanwhile, the feudal lords under the unlucky king would happily kill off the heretic king and fight for the new throne.
Before the large-scale religious reform that occurred after the Yongye Calamity more than one hundred years ago — no, the religious reform happened even earlier than that. Before the first religious reform that occurred more than three hundred years ago, divine authority was far superior to royal authority. Back then, even a bishop dared to humiliate the emperor, and a cardinal could sue an entire country. In fact, even the princes and princesses of various countries were required to serve in the Holy Church's headquarters (as hostages) in order to express their devotion to the Holy Light.
From a certain standpoint, even the incident with the Mist Kingdom was related to the Holy Light. If it wasn't for the fact that the various countries and the Holy Church had gone overboard, the subsequent developments wouldn't have led to the Yongye Calamity. Naturally, the Holy Church wouldn't have gone through so many large-scale religious reforms. In fact, even the first religious reform three hundred years ago was related to me. If I thought about it this way, it really was a terrible debt. Perhaps I was just born to be at odds with the Holy Church.
Some things would be impossible to pick up again once they were missed. If the Holy Church wanted to regain its status from three hundred years ago, even if the other True God churches agreed, the emperors of each country wouldn't agree.
Perhaps the happiest ones right now were those devout believers with the word "Holy" in their names. No wonder they were so anxious to send people to support the Holy Church. It was as if they were afraid that if they didn't support the Holy Church in time, the situation would worsen and Wumianzhe's Church would be slapped to death by the God of Holy Light.
As for public support … as long as they weren't idiots, there was no way they would support the Holy Church on the surface.
However, those weapons orders that would last us for thirty years, and there was even an inconceivable contract where the buyer would pay in full and the seller wouldn't limit the delivery time. As long as we were thick-skinned enough, we could extend the delivery time indefinitely. This was basically the same as giving money to the Holy Church.
This is obviously an unreasonable treaty. Apart from the importance that the countries attach to our products, I'm afraid it's more of a kind of tacit support in the dark.
"We didn't get any benefits from the Holy Church, but we actually received support from the Holy Church's hidden enemies. I'm really speechless."
The arms sales and military parade could both be considered a success. In a way, this also proved East Mist's power and the Mist Alliance's capital. Now that the dawn of a new generation had appeared, especially since the opportunity to revolutionize this new generation had already been proven to be real in battle, any wise ruler would definitely not miss out on such a great opportunity for a new technological revolution.
This wasn't only an external temptation. After we proved our own abilities, several other countries in the Northlands contacted us in private, discussing the possibility of joining the Mist Alliance.
However, I didn't change my mind. The first group of countries to join the Mist Alliance consisted of only six factions: the Donglan Principality, the Sleuweir Kingdom, the Xiluo Empire, the Sharal Autonomous Region, the Northlands Barbarian Alliance, and the Rhodes Kingdom. Only the Rhodes Kingdom joined the Rhodes Kingdom in order to avoid suspicion.
Yep, the Rhodes Kingdom, which had originally been hesitant to join the Mist Alliance, unhesitatingly joined our side after the military parade that morning.
"No matter how large the Mist Alliance becomes in the future, the first group of countries to join the Mist Alliance will all become the core of the Mist Alliance. It might not be a good thing to casually expand right now."
At this moment, in the large conference room, after Rhodes Kingdom's ambassador signed his name, the six new member countries of the Mist Alliance were finally confirmed. The Mist Alliance was thus born. To my surprise, I received a system notification.
[System notification: The Mist Alliance has been successfully established. The Epic Quest, Revival of the Mist, has been perfectly completed. The King of the Northlands shall be revived in a new form. Calculating various rewards … Would you like to proceed with a settlement? This settlement will involve some future karma calculations. Please choose carefully.]
"Didn't you complete this Quest? Sacred Sword? "
Back then, in order to deal with Cavendish's sudden visit, my System had temporarily changed the system's completion status. It had originally been "Upgrade the Roland Sacred Sword to God Equipment level, and clues to the God Equipment Crown of Thorns" to "Obtain the God Equipment level Roland Sacred Sword in advance." But while I had obtained the Sacred Sword, I hadn't received much of a reward. I hadn't even received any information about the Crown of Thorns.
[This Quest is only calculating a portion of your achievements in advance. Now, I'm calculating the entire Quest. System notification: It's rare for me to help you out, so why worry so much? If you don't ask your father to help, your younger brother will definitely beat you up. Would you like to calculate the settlement? Yes or yes?]
I couldn't help but laugh. Was there even a need to hesitate?
"Let's calculate the settlement. I still want to know where the Crown of Thorns is."
[… It's in the hands of the current Emperor of Bardi. You even personally gave it to his ancestor.]
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