Free Web NovelChapter 882: Chapter 520: Witch Hunt Movement
There’s no denying that Alice’s proposal was quite troublesome, but it was indeed effective.
The larger the organization, the more factions it contains internally.
As the largest church on the Dawn Continent, the Daylight Church has countless sects within its ranks.
According to the tacit agreement within the Daylight Church, nearly every sect is expected to send out its own candidates to run for Daylight Saintess.
In the past, because there weren’t that many sects within the church, the election for Daylight Saintess wouldn’t create such a massive spectacle. Basically, a compromise among the few major sects would be enough to decide the candidate.
However, in recent years, with the expansion of the Daylight Church and the annexation of many churches, more and more factions have emerged as a result.
Conservative, radical, neutral...
Alice looked at the list of candidates, totaling to more than a dozen options.
Some sects long for the days when The Gods ruled the world, believing that all the God’s churches are their brothers, advocating for peaceful coexistence with other churches, and insisting on no more annexations. The more radical ones even demand the return of territories annexed during previous wars and to rebuild their churches.
Other sects believe that Lady of Daylight should become the sole deity in this world and that other churches should not exist at all and should be completely eradicated.
Still, other sects prefer to maintain the status quo, unwilling to relinquish their vested interests but also not wanting to become future war victims.
Alice was curious about which faction Laudon, the descendants of the Twilight Council, belonged to.
"Our ideals haven’t changed," Laudon earnestly stated, "to eliminate all Gods in this world."
Alice was stunned: "Including Lady of Daylight."
"Including Lady of Daylight." Laudon nodded without any hesitation.
"I’m sorry..." Alice apologized, "I thought you would be followers of Daylight." freёwebnovel.com
Laudon laughed: "We are indeed followers of Daylight, but that doesn’t conflict with our desire to eliminate Lady of Daylight."
Alice paused for a moment.
Just as she was pondering over this, Sherman strode in: "Lady Alice, I’m sorry, I failed my mission."
"Eh? The mission failed?" Alice blinked, completely unanticipated.
The task she handed to Sherman was to report to the Inquisition that the sects on the list were colluding with invaders.
Such a mission actually failed.
Could it be that the Inquisition saw through her conspiracy?
Sherman took several breaths, then explained the situation to Alice.
He did go to the Inquisition, but they were too busy to entertain Sherman, a priest from a minor sect.
With the downfall of Sun Prison, countless letters of accusation were flooding into the Judgement Hall like rain.
Using real evidence to frame?
High-stakes political battles often employ the simplest methods.
They simply fabricated rumors, with no evidence whatsoever.
The Inquisition is currently in a highly sensitive phase, thus almost all accusations are being processed. Alice hadn’t even taken action yet, and the witch hunts in the entire Sun City had already begun.
Who collaborated with the invader seemed to be more important than where the invader actually was.
No, to be precise, they didn’t dare to investigate the invader or the collaborators behind them, after all, it was evident who benefited the most from the destruction of the Eternal Day Sect.
Moreover, after Aivia summoned Lady of Daylight, she cleared out the escaping Gods from Sun Prison, proving the authenticity of Lady of Daylight.
Not to mention they were originally followers of Daylight, even if they were heretics, witnessing Lady of Daylight kill Gods as easily as cutting weeds, they dared not cross Aivia.
Although they lacked the courage to investigate the true culprit, there was plenty of courage to frame competitors under the guise of such investigation, and quite substantial courage at that.
In these rumors, a sect had already been identified as remnants of the Twilight Council, infiltrating the Daylight Church to someday ascend to high positions and destroy the church from within.
When Alice saw these accusations, she exclaimed at their expertise.
Despite being mere rumors, they unexpectedly revealed some truths, only the targets of the rumors were mistakenly chosen.
Among them, the fiercest struggles were between the few sects with high hopes.
In just three days, several candidates from these sects were already taken down.
Such a farce finally disturbed Aivia.
After all, if this continued, the entire Daylight Church would become the Twilight Council’s accomplices, and although Baris’s ultimate goal was indeed Twilight’s return, if the Daylight Church became rusty all by itself before it could eliminate all other churches on the Dawn Continent, it would be truly laughable.
Alice was enjoying the spectacle when Oshana arrived with Aivia’s orders.
Shen Sui, initially pondering how such a farce would conclude, found Baris decisively taking advantage of the situation.
A thousand years ago in the Twilight Council, Vivian was the spiritual leader, Shen Sui was the main force, and although Baris’s strength was formidable, she was slightly less capable than the other two.
Hence, aside from the sabotage against Lady of Daylight, Baris mostly handled the management roles, coordinating the operations of various departments within the Twilight Council.
