Yue read through the reports, which covered the recent activities of the Holy Church and the Demon Empire.
The first thing that caught her eye was a peculiar entry: the Holy Church had dispatched a minor contingent of Paladins southward to Solfea.
That was odd, given their current predicament.
The world was turning against them.
The Goddess had descended, yet the vast majority still refused to believe it.
Faith, it seemed, was not simply a matter of miracles.
No, it was something the Holy Church had long since forfeited.
They had abandoned humanity and sided with the Demons, a blasphemous act in itself.
But they had also turned their backs on the Hyades Republic in its hour of need, and that betrayal had cost them dearly, bleeding away the faithful one by one until almost nothing remained. Now the Holy Church was a hollow shell of what it once was, its remaining resources clinging to Hyarum like embers in a dying hearth.
