While Li Yu was busy building the organizational structure and upgrading the system of the Double Holiday Church in Luye, the Silver Moon Church on the other side was also experiencing a turmoil.
At first, the source of the turmoil was just that the new head of the Arias family, Ilea, converted to Saturday. Her blatant betrayal of Bisiya stirred up the nerves of millions of Silver Moon Goddess believers in the Western Territory.
But what made everyone even more dissatisfied was what happened later. The church's response seemed slow and ineffective. Not only did it fail to prevent the incident from happening, but the hasty assassination that followed was somehow seen through by the Shuangxiu Church in advance.
As soon as the slogan was shouted, all the assassins were arrested, causing other believers to find no chance even if they wanted to join them in charging for their faith. The whole process looked like they were cooperating with the newly formed Black Dog Guards to show off their style.
Not only the believers in Pisiya couldn't accept it, but also the priests in the church broke through the defense together.
Especially those who were at the scene that day witnessed Jude standing alone in front of an oxcart like a mountain, facing the attacks of six or seven people, and he actually had the upper hand.
This powerful personal force shocked many people, and other members of the Black Dog Guard also performed well. They locked their targets early and struck decisively and without mercy.
Coupled with the dwarf armor and dragon scale shield that were shown before, this kind of skill paired with such equipment seems to be no less than the elite warriors of the big family, which caused a strong impact on the priests of the Silver Moon Church.
psychological impact.
Some of them have realized that the enemies in front of them cannot be defeated by just talking.
This double break, which has only occurred for half a year, is more dangerous than everyone expected.
So the priests did not disperse and return to their respective stations, but met together to come to the Scaled City together.
Scaled City is one of the few towns with two temples at the same time.
Among them, the Great Temple of Cecil is mainly a place for young people with the potential to become priests to study and further their studies. It is located in the west of the city.
The Great Temple of Alberto in the east of the city houses the holy coffin of High Priest Chaokas, and is also the place where the Silver Moon Church discusses important matters.
The priests came here hoping to find the reason for this defeat, and more importantly, to find a way to deal with Li Yu and his Shuangxiu Cult.
However, before they could reach a conclusion, they heard another piece of bad news!
——High Priest Reeves is dead.
High Priest Reeves is the second eldest among the seven high priests. The only one older than him is High Priest Kokoon.
However, unlike High Priest Kokoon, who is obviously a bit muddle-headed and just wants to keep his position and muddle along, High Priest Reeves is quite energetic.
In the past hundred years, he has been tirelessly looking for allies and cultivating his own power within the church. Herodotus, another high priest among the seven high priests, was supported by him and almost obeyed him, just like his shadow.
Same.
In fact, High Priest Reeves and his cronies have almost controlled half of the Silver Moon Church, and only High Priest Martina and her disciples can barely compete with them.
But for such a powerful and powerful man, he died as soon as he said he would die.
And actually because he felt guilty about what happened in Luye a few days ago, and felt sorry for the goddess, he finally chose to take his own life.
Many priests were shocked by the staunchness of High Priest Reeves.
But the problem is that the Silver Moon Church is not an island country in another universe, and it is not popular to make mistakes.
High Priest Reeves is getting old again. Even if he doesn't do a good job, he can just step down from his position. There is no need to do it so brilliantly.
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"Teacher, he wants to tell us in this way that the church has reached a time when it has to change." Herodotus was uncharacteristic this time. He no longer listened obediently to the side, but was the first of the six high priests to speak.
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"Change...what does it mean?" High Priest Kokoon frowned. As an old man, these two words were the ones he didn't like to hear the most.
"We need to form our own army." Herodotus' words caused an uproar among the priests.
"This is ridiculous," Kirkuon shook his head. "The church has an agreement with a group of nobles in the West. They will provide us with military protection, and we will be responsible for protecting their souls from being corrupted by filth.
"Just because you have a double break, you have to break the sacred oath that has been held for thousands of years. High Priest Herodotus, I think you have overreacted and lost the grace of a high priest."
High Priest Kirkeon was usually good at pretending to be deaf and dumb. This time he rarely said something serious, which showed that he was really dissatisfied with the meaning of Herodotus' question.
But Herodotus did not give in this time, and said leisurely, "The Shuangxiujiao have formed their own army."
"Only a hundred people," added High Priest Hesiod.
"We have hundreds of times as many believers as they do, but we don't even have a guard of a hundred people."
"The nobles of the Western Region..."
"Don't worry about those nobles. They are not trustworthy at all. When our believers were murdered by the black dog guards, they stood aside and watched."
Herodotus reiterated, "We need an army of our own that will fully obey our orders. The number does not need to be too large. Three thousand people will be enough in the early stage."
"Three thousand people?" High Priest Gonaya was shocked when he heard this, "Isn't there only a hundred people in Shuangxiu Cult?"
"The lizardmen under Merlin, regardless of age or sex, can fight to the death when necessary. Also, don't forget the Arias family's army.
"Ilea is determined to convert to Saturday. They are now wearing the same pants. If we take action against Saturday, the Arias family will definitely not sit idly by."
"Where do we get the money?" High Priest Kokoon raised his voice, "Do you know how much it costs to form an army of three thousand people? Food and drink for so many people, weapons and equipment, and training costs...
We don’t have any dragon blood or black gold to sell.”
Herodotus thought to himself that if you were less greedy, you could easily save the money, but now is not the time to fall out, so he said.
"We can go to believers to raise funds. We have millions of believers. As long as each of them contributes one, no, half a silver coin, we will have a military expenditure of 50,000 gold lions, which will be enough for a while."
Hearing that he didn't have to pay for it himself, High Priest Kokoon's expression softened slightly, but he still did not support the church's own army, and several other high priests had similar views to him.
(End of chapter)
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