Schwarz von Richter stared in astonishment at the dark, heavy clouds and the stormy, thunderous sky.

Several lay members of the Holy See, who had just been acting strangely, questioned:

"How could this be? Where is the holy light of heaven?"

"Could it be that they are the heretics, destined to be judged by the holy 'master'?"

“Sinners, they should be judged.”

"So these people from the Holy See are all a bunch of liars!!"

Many farmers and commoners in the Canaanite lands, whose faith had just been converted and baptized and whose resolve was not firm at all, immediately turned against the cause like reeds in the wind... Mass gatherings of thousands of people also immediately fell apart and collapsed.

In the sight of Schwarz von Richter and the Vatican officials.

One by one, heretical followers of the Devil's Cult, with wicked smiles on their faces, surrounded the supreme ruler Su Yue; "What if we fail?"

"The Holy See has decreed that we must temporarily evacuate from the 'nest of evil'!!!"

Schwarz von Richter directly defined the Canaanite territory of Su Yue as a den of evil.

"retreat!!!"

A dozen or so Vatican officials immediately attempted to flee the Mass.

The fraternity member who was beaten until he was covered in blood.

They also started wanting to escape.

But just then...

"Whoosh!!!"

"Ahhh!"

Blood splattered everywhere as a massive, seventh-tier mutated griffin, its body covered in triangular shield scales, with a 3.4-meter wingspan, crushed the whipper, instantly turning him into a bloody pulp.

"It's that seventh-tier mutated griffin! Lang is dead!!"

"This is troublesome!"

"I will retreat to the south, you all go to the north."

Schwarz von Richter immediately rallied the disorganized farmers and Holy See believers, and they scattered in all directions!

But how could the iron cavalry of the Su-Yue Empire let them go?

A massive encirclement has formed a concentric circle, increasingly restricting the living space of faculty and staff.

Schwarz von Richter watched helplessly as a believer died before his very eyes.

His chest was pierced by the longsword of an imperial soldier.

He was breathing heavily.

A terrible pressure emanated from Abraham in the distance.

He knew it was the "power" of the devil's cult.

His power was completely suppressed.

It's simply impossible to perform at its best.

He understood that at this moment, the only hope—the hope of protecting these believers and clergy—fell in Su Yue's hands.

His gray beard and steel-blue pupils gleamed as he looked at Su Yue and shouted:

“My lord! The evil creatures in your territory are united like toad eggs, harassing the poor with usury and taxes.”

Su Yue laughed and said, "Oh? Poor people? There are many poor people in my territory?"

Schwarz von Richter, his red robes billowing, declared: "The sacred is the truth of the world."

Su Yue asked, "Without darkness, how can holiness be highlighted?"

"!!!"

Blood began to trickle from the corner of Schwarz von Richter's mouth; Su Yue's words seemed to have worsened his injuries.

The seventh-tier Soth Griffin was wreaking havoc among the clergy. Every second he thought, every second a clergyman died beside him... Father Jung cried out for help, "Bishop Schwartz, save me!!" The next second, a noble knight pierced his chest and abdomen, even pulling out his intestines.

The clergy beside him knew there was no hope of escape.

They all began to pray in their desperate situation:

"In the midst of a great harvest, evil will be uprooted like weeds!"

"The seven-headed dragon beast, the evil of Babylon will be ruled by Satan, and light will ultimately triumph over evil."

"Where the tentacles of giant serpents and eels pollute each other, there must be a divine being to cleanse those original sins..."

"..."

Su Yue, clad in high-grade armor gleaming with silver light, wielding the divine weapon Arachne, and riding the white five-legged steed Sleipnir, approached Cardinal Schwarz and said:

"The church is so extravagant that it can only pay its debts by levying taxes heavier than ever before; they openly claim that they do not interfere in worldly affairs, that divine authority and worldly affairs are two parallel lines, yet they intend to seize power? Did you harbor ill will towards Canaan from the beginning? Did you intend to let divine authority supersede my worldly monarchical power?"

Schwarz von Richter's lips moved slightly, and he calmly said:

"My faith in the divine is absolutely pure..."

Su Yue said, "Heh, what about my interests? What about the interests of the so-called 'poor people' you mentioned? You started exploiting others right from the start. The Eastern Expedition has already broken out in the Empire, and your Holy See's Benedict IV has been called an enemy of Christ and a heretic. You still have the nerve to proclaim your faith in the Holy Order of the Brotherhood? You have the nerve? You're not worthy!"

"..."

Schwarz von Richter felt as if he had been insulted, so he knelt on the ground and said, "I hope you will take all the blame on me and not punish anyone else."

"Your Majesty Bishop!"

The mournful sounds continued to drift over.

Su Yue laughed and said, "As expected of a cardinal, you really have a sense of responsibility. Are you portraying me as a villain and a clown? Who is it that stirred up riots and rebellions on someone else's territory? Who intends to lead civilians to attack the 'Black Diocese (the gathering place of the Devil Cult)'?"

Su Yue sneered, "Oh, right, I almost forgot about your Vatican's traditional skill of 'buying and selling clergy.' These priests under your command are all useless. Could it be that they bought their clergy? The Holy See's greed led to the Eastern Expedition, and the common people couldn't even survive. The textile workers in Bruje were such an honest group."

"Sixteen guilds rebelled together. Was it the Empire that rebelled? No, it was your church."

Schwartz said, "Sacredness never fades."

He had been severely hurt by Su Yue's words.

Sometimes, what kills and injures people is not swords or knives, but words.

Su Yue's words were like sharp swords, piercing through the other party's filthy exterior once again.

"You came to my territory intending to seize power and profit, fine, but you should never have started a riot in my territory. Since God ordained the way of life for Adam and Eve, the closest to their way of life should be the farmer; I arranged your dwelling place according to this principle, so why do you complain and have grievances against me?"

"What?!!"

"He knew all along?"

José Fernández de la Irina stared at Su Yue in utter shock. Su Yue had arranged for them to live in civilian houses, which had caused discontent among the priests, who were used to a life of luxury and pleasure!

At this moment, Su Yue pointed this out.

José Fernández-Vínée Irina suddenly felt her faith wavering and collapsing.

Indeed, early humans were destitute and starving, yet they gradually transformed into greedy worms! They greedily possess and seize worldly wealth, plunder gold, and chase power. The Church has fallen!

But why doesn't Heaven care?

At this moment, Josephine was plunged into a deep state of confusion.

"puff……"

Another priest was killed by Su Yue. This priest, James, was clearly the one who had complained about their poor living conditions earlier—Su Yue's actions seemed to form a cause-and-effect cycle.

"The monks build their own chapels, the clergy participate in secular trade, competing with others. They secretly lend money at exorbitant interest rates, trade with the believers in my territory, and yet claim to be holy, holding clergy and therefore exempt from paying taxes to the lord? Do you fucking think our lords are idiots? The clergy buy and sell clergy, conduct business but don't pay taxes to the lord? Wasn't the outbreak of this Eastern Expedition also due to your aiding and abetting? Without you ugly, fat worms and catfish that eat filth from the sewers, how could the common people have rebelled?"

"How did the Bato Empire get caught up in war and chaos? You damned trash, do you even have the right to complain to me?"

"Giant snakes and eel tentacles, where they pollute each other, there must be a sacred cleansing... Look at yourselves!"

The more deceptive something is, the less likely it is to break a person's defenses.

José Fernández della Signoria's vision blurred, and she felt dizzy and disoriented, as if she had been struck by a fatal blow—because she knew that everything the Canaanite lord had said was true.

"The news and rumors that the Eastern Expedition claimed to Pope Benedict IV as the enemy of Christo have spread throughout the territory of Bathor... The essence of this matter is the riots instigated by your Holy See. Although the nobles of the Empire and Bathor are also exploiting the poor, they are undoubtedly being dragged into the water by you fat serpents (the serpent symbolizes Satan) and eels (the eels symbolize greed and evil)."

"You are the greatest heretics!"

"Ahhh!! Lord, forgive our sins!"

A priest couldn't stand Su Yue's verbal abuse!

He immediately raised his sword and committed suicide!

Blood splattered on Schwartz's face, but his expression remained calm. The cardinal's robes were now completely stained redder with blood.

Blood flowed like a river, and priests from the Holy See surrounded Bishop Schwartz.

He was like the last reef protecting the ocean tides.

Su Yue said, "Salary-based holy offices should not exist in the first place. You have increased taxes on the territories without providing equivalent clothing, yet you receive top salaries and gold coins, opening your doors wide to do business; you exploit the common people, suppress the lords, and transfer houses and land to land, leaving no room for compromise!"

Su Yue looked at Walter Lawrence beside him and said coldly, "Search them!! Find all the private wealth of these Holy See members and display it to the public!"

A commoner cried out, "Sir, I donated all my money to the Holy Church, and they claimed that all wealth belonged to the public. But when I asked them for money the next day to buy food, they turned on me and refused!"

A priest stared at Su Yue with bloodshot eyes!

He raised his longsword.

He committed suicide!

—He is the one who coerced and plotted to seize the wealth of the common people in the Canaanite lands.

As expected, Walter Lawrence found more than thirty chests of jewels among the members of the Holy See's St. John's Brothers! The moment the jewels were opened in front of the many Canaanite citizens, they glittered with golden light, a truly magnificent sight.

"They're secretly making money?"

"The despicable Holy See."

"Is this the true face of the church? It's despicable. It's utterly evil..."

“I knew someone before, and when I asked him why he donated all his property to the church, he said he was clearly being deceived. He even said there was something wrong with me. He said that he donated his wealth entirely to atone for his sins to God… I don’t know if he did not atone for his sins, but he did become penniless.”

"Damn the Papacy!"

Abraham gazed at the scene with rapt attention.

The Lord's trial of the Holy See is truly gratifying.

"Whose daughter has been assaulted by this teacher?"

Four or five timid girls walked out from the territory.

"Pfft! Pfft!!!!"

Two more clergy members have committed suicide.

Walter Lawrence also stared coldly at Schwartz.

Schwarz von Richter closed his eyes.

"This is not the norm; there are holy people within the Papacy as well."

Su Yue said, "That's true, for example, you."

"You have not seized the wealth of other priests and commoners, nor have you used the name of divine authority to sleep with women, much less have you seized other people's land; but you, you biggest and most despicable serpent, the catfish, actually want to seize the secular rights of the Canaanite lands!!!"

"You deserve to die!!!"

A longsword, Arachnid, pierced Schwartz's chest with deadly force.

The long sword pierced through his chest.

Cardinal Schwartz, a tall man in a robe, should theoretically possess the highest level of faith in the Holy See and the most devout spiritual strength, yet at this moment, a look of confusion appeared in his eyes…

"Secular life, poverty and wealth, women, the illustrious, the struggle between the secular aristocracy and theocracy... the Papacy's harsh taxes... clergy buying and selling their priesthood, engaging in secular business activities, persecuting believers... encountering resistance from the common people, a large-scale civil war broke out... are they really without sin?"

At that moment, his faith was completely shaken and even began to collapse.

"What is right?"

His hands were stained with blood as he gripped Su Yue's arm.

Su Yue calmly said, "Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. Public opinion is the true measure of justice. And public opinion is most easily swayed by others to go astray..."

Schwartz suddenly burst into laughter, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth down to his chest. He was a powerful seventh-tier NPC, a cardinal in red robes, and it was not impossible for him to summon angels.

However, in front of Abraham, the Silver Palace Grand Lord who was above the ninth rank, he was unable to exert his full strength.

The gates of Heaven were opened to judge all evil, and the Inquisition's attack plan was completely aborted.

Schwartz proclaimed, “I, Schwartz, a heretic, a false oath-taker, a blasphemer, die today by the sword of Lord Su Yue, the Canaanite lord, and have witnessed true holiness and justice, nothing more!”

That's all.

He gripped his longsword and walked towards Su Yue!

It seemed as if she wanted to hug Su Yue.

He even kissed the lord's shoes one last time, but then he collapsed in front of Su Yue.