Previously, they had only discussed the additional terms of the alliance. The core of the alliance was still the Southern Sect, the Mist Alliance, and the Holy Church coming to an agreement in private.
This was no small matter. If word of this got out, it would probably be even more important than the news of a God's death or San Antonio's death. Critics and strategists would definitely discuss and research it for half a year.
The Southern Sect wasn't just a simple Holy Church. Its influence had spread to every corner of Aichy. Compared to the Holy Church, the Southern Sect's teachings were simpler and more approachable. It was a true miracle of Holy Light. Most importantly, it wasn't as domineering as the Holy Church, which allowed it to gradually replace the original Holy Church's faith in remote areas.
Together with the Holy Church, the Southern Sect still occupied more than 70% of the human world's faith.
Behind the Southern Sect was the mega empire Bardi. When considering the Mage Country's relationship with the Southern Sect, the Southern Sect was a gigantic Southern Alliance.
As for the Mist Alliance, there was no need to mention it. Its physical existence occupied the entire Northlands.
The elves, beastmen, humans, and undead. Although their main faith wasn't the Holy Light, their influence in human society was still astonishing.
Behind the Mist Alliance was the Gods of Hades. This was a mega faction capable of rivaling the entire Order Faction. Nobody knew what else was behind the Mist Alliance.
Between the three factions, there were faint signs of hostility. They were always on guard against each other and secretly hooked up with each other.
Many people in the Holy Church viewed the Mist Alliance and the Southern Sect as their number one enemy. They were even more threatening than the Chaos Faction.
After all, the Holy Church had a life-and-death relationship with the Chaos Faction. However, the Southern Sect and the Mist Alliance had a strange relationship where the Holy Church had finally defeated their mortal enemies with great difficulty, only to have the Mist Alliance and the Southern Sect reap the rewards.
What did this alliance mean to the Holy Church? What could the Holy Church obtain from this alliance?
This wasn't written in the alliance. In fact, only the benefits were tangible. In that case, was the Holy Church an idiot?
No, that wasn't it. The Holy Church could obtain tremendous benefits from this alliance, but those benefits couldn't be written into the alliance because they were far too despicable and shameless.
"If the three factions reach an alliance, that means that all of human society recognizes the Holy Church as the 'leader' of the Holy Church in the Holy War. At the very least, on the surface, the Southern Sect and Northern Mist Alliance won't openly challenge the Holy Church's authority. In that case, the Holy Church will be able to use their military forces to guard against the Southern Sect and Northern Mist Alliance. Not only that, they'll be able to do something 'immoral.'"
Yes, that was a major matter. It was a betrayal, a betrayal of all of San Antonio.
Before the Holy Church reached an agreement with the two major factions, as long as the Holy Church abandoned San Antonio and voluntarily withdrew from the internal war, all the kingdoms and factions would pursue the Holy Church to the bitter end, challenging their right to lead the Holy War.
"You can even abandon the most loyal San Antonio, and you still expect others to trust you? Who knows if the next ally you'll betray will be us. "
In this world, the rule of the Holy Light Church wasn't a royal power, it relied on authority. Damage to reputation and credibility wasn't just empty words, the loss was irreparable.
But, if the three major factions reached an agreement in private right now to betray and abandon San Antonio, that would be a decision made by all of human society, or at least the vast majority of human factions.
This wasn't just a matter of not looking into it. Only San Antonio's interests would be harmed in this situation. This was also the foundational reason why I called this alliance the "traitors' alliance".
There was no saving San Antonio anymore, so let's give up on it.
Anyone who said such a thing, even if it was the truth, would definitely be forever shamed by history.
Of course, the Holy Church would be the ones to make such a decision, and the Holy Church would be the ones to be despised in the end. But, at least for now, all of human society would tacitly allow this to happen and treat it as "dark history", so that they wouldn't attack the Holy Church.
This was the true content of the alliance. Both sides knew about this, but neither side would say it out loud.
However, the Holy Church would definitely do such a thing after obtaining the alliance.
Although the Holy Church would suffer heavy losses, it would still be better than constantly losing blood in this bottomless pit, as well as losing reputation by slaughtering their own kind.
Betrayal? Yes, this was betrayal.
This was a ticking time bomb. The people of San Antonio would forever remember this day. All the lucky survivors would view the Holy Church as their mortal enemy. Their hatred for the Holy Church would be even greater than the Chaos Abyss demons and great demons that were currently destroying San Antonio's land.
Of course, the prerequisite was that San Antonio would survive this calamity.
Meanwhile, we would have the crucial time to prepare for war.
San Antonio would forever be the human race's most powerful country. San Antonio had plenty of resources, enough to last them for several decades. No matter who the final victor of this civil war was, no matter who the final ruler was, they wouldn't allow their country to be filled with demons and great demons.
This was how countries interacted with each other. Only benefits would be discussed, not emotions. It would always be better for another country to be unlucky than for their own country to be unlucky.
Not only that, we weren't the traitors. We were only bystanders. In fact, we even generously helped the Holy Church out, so the Holy Church should be grateful to us.
"Grateful to you? Just this incident alone has caused Caloma to be forever shamed by history. Right now, he probably wants nothing more than to eat you alive, yet he still has to smile at you and forget about all the previous disagreements. Today is probably the most sullen moment of his entire life. "
The silly cat … er, the damned young girl's comments were as sharp as ever. And judging from Caloma's twisted expression, this was indeed the case.
We tacitly agreed to forget about all the previous disagreements. We treated the Seraphim's death as if it had never happened. This was probably the boring tacit agreement between politicians.
Of course, how long this alliance would last would depend on which side gained the upper hand first. Only when there were sufficient benefits would this alliance become meaningless. But since there were mutual benefits, this alliance would be incredibly solid.
Actually, this was the same for all international alliances and agreements. Without a powerful arbitration organization and the ability to enforce them, the violator would have nothing to fear. These so-called alliances and agreements could only be maintained by mutual benefits. The moment that there were no mutual benefits, they would naturally become nothing more than scrap paper.
I left by myself with the useless papers from the Alliance. The moment I left, I immediately boarded an airship heading northeast. I didn't intend to experience the feeling of being surrounded and killed again. There were still many people in the Holy Church who wanted me dead.
Both sides of today's secret alliance would likely have their reputations tarnished afterwards. However, I didn't really care. After all, my reputation was already tarnished enough. It would be a good thing for the Holy Church to be tarnished even more.
The only one who would lose out from this was the third party, San Antonio. However, the strategic space and time gained from this alliance would be beneficial to the entire world. That was why both sides had tacitly agreed to betray this third party.
I disguised myself as an elderly man with a cane and sat on the edge of the airship. I couldn't help but sigh as I looked at the prosperous streets below.
"How many people know that their own country, the strongest country in the entire continent, San Antonio, has already been destroyed …?"
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