Green Monster Epic

Chapter 786: The New War Horn

"Your Eminence, everything is progressing smoothly. All fifty-nine important cities in the kingdom are now under the control of our people."

In Lionheart City, the air is still thick with the smell of gunpowder. Sporadic riots still occur inside and outside the city, caused by the unwillingness of the defeated royalists to give up, or perhaps these are just their last struggles.

Dressed in simple attire, with a crown of thorns on his head, the Martyr Pope Zachariah sat upright in the Holy Hall, listening to reports from various departments.

"Very good. It's time to move forward with the coronation ceremony for the new King of the Kingdom."

"However, the pursuit of Prince Fleming cannot be relaxed. Your Inquisition needs to conduct a review of this matter. Why was this important figure allowed to escape?!"

"It is our incompetence. We are willing to accept any punishment!"

"But they cannot escape. We have already caught their tail. News will be sent back in a maximum of five days!"

In the magnificent and sacred hall, almost all the core leaders of the Church of the Suffering were present, their eyes gleaming with joy. For many years, they had suppressed their emotions, but today they could finally express them without restraint.

Such a large kingdom, after this coup, is about to return to the control of the Church. How could this group of priests and bishops, whose mission is to promote the faith of the Suffering, not feel ecstatic?!

To carry out this plan, the Church of the Suffering has been planning and enduring for decades. During this time, the Church of the Suffering had to deliberately restrain their power and avoid being detected by their opponents. Only core members who have personally experienced this kind of thing can understand the difficulty.

After all, their opponents are not ordinary people, but the rulers of a kingdom with legitimate authority. Their abilities and vision can be considered among the best in humanity. It is not easy to deceive their wisdom with a few words or spells.

Moreover, behind them, there are many powerful nobles who have been operating in their territories for many years and have deep foundations. If they are not careful, the Church's plan may not only fail but may even lead to the expansion of royal power.

But in the end, everything is developing in the direction the Church expected, and there were no major setbacks in the final stages.

That's right, letting the royal power develop and making the royal family seem to be able to fight the Church on equal terms is just an illusion created by the Church of the Suffering. In fact, since Denzel ascended the throne, his so-called efforts to strengthen the country were deliberately promoted and even fueled by the Church behind the scenes.

The purpose was to use the secular core of the royal family to attract all the unstable elements in the Lionheart Kingdom, and finally, the Church would wipe them out in one fell swoop, thereby completing the cleanup and rectification of the entire kingdom. This would lay a solid foundation for the kingdom's important task as a transit hub for the Human Alliance after the outbreak of the Civilization War.

For Denzel and his predecessor, they had painstakingly planned and managed the power and kingdom in their hands, spending their entire lives. But for the gods who possessed almost endless life, and the Church leaders under their command, these decades were just a nap during their cultivation or rest.

Of course, the planning and layout of the entire plan were not only the efforts of the Church of the Suffering alone. Behind them, there was also the support of the Church of the Dawn, the Church of Battle Honor, and other forces. At the same time, the gods in the endless starry sky were also using their respective methods to deceive and mislead the God of War, Kareggos, which ultimately led to the current situation.

Think about it carefully. The Lionheart Kingdom has been established for ten thousand years, and the Church of the Suffering has invested countless resources and manpower in the kingdom since the founding monarch raised his army. Even the initial political, economic, and cultural frameworks of the kingdom were built by the Church of the Suffering, who taught the rulers of the Lionheart Kingdom hand in hand.

In these ten thousand years, the Church of the Suffering has been cultivating and preaching on this land, transcending royal power and possessing more powerful privileges than royal power. In addition, with its expertise in faith and collective consciousness, although other church forces compete with them, the Church of the Suffering has always firmly controlled the power of the kingdom.

With the development of human society and civilization, people have gained a deeper understanding of natural laws and science, and gradually discovered the secrets of gods and churches. The mysterious veil covering the gods is no longer so intimidating, and finally, there have been various voices and dissidents opposing gods and faith.

However, these non-mainstream opinions and understandings are, after all, only a minority. Under the vigorous suppression of various churches, at least in the current environment and situation, it is impossible to create much of a wave.

Although it is only the path chosen by a few humans, it does not have much influence at present. However, since the Wall of the Faithless was truly destroyed by these practitioners, and the Spring Goddess disregarded the survival rights of a country's people, these events have been widely spread, shaking the foundation of divine rule to some extent.

Especially in the land of the Lionheart Kingdom, which is adjacent to the Ice Kingdom, a different kind, and has absorbed many immigrants from the Spring Country, many problems have arisen within the kingdom. Later, when selecting candidates for the new king, Pope Zachariah and other Church leaders misjudged Denzel's attitude towards the Church, causing the Church to experience a considerable challenge.

After Zachariah and the others discovered the hidden crisis in the kingdom, they decisively began to plan to eliminate these hidden dangers. Coincidentally, the Human Alliance had also recuperated almost enough, and under the demands of the gods in the sky, they were preparing to launch another war against the orcs. Therefore, several parties colluded and simply joined hands to strike at several thorns in the alliance.

Because of his own pursuits and needs, and his crude, wild, and reckless style, the God of War, Kareggos, has always been an unstable factor among the human gods. However, if a war of civilizations is launched, the God of War will become the biggest beneficiary because of his authority, so he will definitely be the most active participant in the war.

The newly emerging anti-faith and anti-god forces in the Lionheart Kingdom pose a challenge to the rule of the gods. Although it is not obvious now, they cannot be allowed to continue to develop. They must be suppressed with strong and iron-blooded methods, thereby deterring these forces.

Since the Lionheart Royal Family wants to win people's hearts and attract reliable and capable talents for their own use, the Church of the Suffering simply sends people to their door, sending talents that their Church has long discovered but are nominally unrelated to the Church to the other party, so that they can get what they want.

About half of the forces controlled by the royal family are actually secret agents of the Church in private. After all, the Church relies on faith for its livelihood, and they have both talent and sufficient resources and privileges to win people's hearts and attract talents, which is far beyond what the seemingly powerful royal family can compare with.

Then, using these talents placed in the royal family, they persuade the royal family to be close to and show goodwill to the War Church, forming a mutually beneficial relationship with them. After decades of operation, they achieve the appearance of having a confrontational force with the Church of the Suffering on the surface.

At least in the limited cognition of the old King Denzel and Duke Sunak, they could not have imagined that the Church of the Suffering would execute such a long plan, a plan that would take more than a generation to mature.

If, in the beginning, Denzel and the others acted cautiously, for fear of attracting the revenge and suppression of the powerful Church of the Suffering, then after decades of growth, it was impossible for them to maintain a cautious and careful attitude towards the Church.

When the time is ripe, the Human Alliance's eyes and ears planted in the orcs and the wilderness will instigate these forces to intervene in the power struggle of the Lionheart Kingdom, not afraid that they will not fall for this trick.

As long as wise men with foresight are very clear, the situation that the Lionheart Kingdom is presenting on the surface now, if it can be messed up, it will definitely bring good gains to the Orc Empire and the Mansa Wilderness. At the very least, it can cause divisions and disunity in the human kingdoms, reducing the strength of their allied forces.

The orcs and the wilderness will definitely send people to stir up the situation in the Lionheart Kingdom. As long as they take action, it means that they have fallen into the calculations of humans, allowing humans to have a legitimate reason to launch a large army to attack the Orc Empire.

At the same time as the Lionheart Kingdom was undergoing a major purge, the Orc Empire sent assassins to assassinate the Pope of the War Church, Reese, the Knights of the Rose Thorns, a subordinate of the Church of the Suffering, and Edward, the demigod archmage of the Lionheart Kingdom. The news has already spread to every corner of the human nations.

Various churches and national rulers are secretly fueling the flames, agitating people's hearts, and condensing the ignorant human lower classes into a united force. A new war between civilizations and races has begun, sounding a loud horn.