NOVEL NEXT Chapter 153: A Miracle in Military History
"Scholar Sterlt, didn't Viscount Roster say we should restore the truth as accurately as possible?" A scholar who'd just joined the World Economic News Agency finally couldn't hold back.
"First of all, we're employees of the World Economic News Agency, working under Lady Megan. We have no relationship with Viscount Roster whatsoever. Second, didn't I tell the truth?"
Scholar Sterlt said with a smile, "Aren't the Knight Order soldiers members of the Church of War? Being attacked by the Knight Order means being attacked by the Church of War. I'm just making it easier for more people to understand this information. Don't you think the War Strongmen are evil? A living person, drained like that—what's the difference from the dark churches? Didn't Truth demonstrate amazing power? Didn't the enemy die? Weren't the Lava General and Black Knight Caius fighting together? Every single sentence is true. So this is real news."
Sterlt looked at the young scholar with a smile on his face, as if asking what part of what he'd said differed from the information they'd just received.
"..." The scholar really couldn't find any grounds to refute him. Just like Sterlt said, he really had restored the on-site situation. It was just that the wording seemed like it would guide some people in a certain direction.
In fact, it did exactly what he suspected.
After the further processed news was posted online, it immediately caused an uproar.
"The Church of War is actually this insane?! Draining life force to burst out power!"
"These War Strongmen are too terrifying! They can actually burst out with ordinary knight-level strength!"
"What the Lava General said shouldn't be wrong. Are these Church of War people crazy? How many people are going to die if this keeps up?!"
"Oh my God! Truly worthy of the name Truth! Zero casualties while taking out such terrifying enemies—absolutely incredible!"
"I think the Lava General made the right choice. It should be like this. Many people joined the faith of the Church of War because war meant protection. But what has it become now?!"
"Clerics are mysteriously dying every day, and the Church of War keeps being evasive about it, putting their attention on invasion instead. Starting now, my territory will ban the Church of War from preaching!"
Whether for supernatural beings or nobles, this report was just so... terrifying. An ordinary peasant or slave could actually possess low-level supernatural abilities. Even though the price was death in a few months, these supernatural beings couldn't tolerate it. As for their attempt to plunder, control, and brainwash every territory—that made nobles feel genuine fear. For a moment, the entire Magic Net was filled with condemnation.
Those who could use the Magic Net now were nothing but supernatural beings, nobles, leaders of major factions, higher-class freemen and merchants, top craftsmen, and... members of various churches. This news was obviously very unfriendly to all of them.
Those War clerics and believers watching this scene didn't even dare show their faces on the Magic Net. In the past, if you wanted to argue, you'd argue—what was there to fear? But now? You'd really get swarmed and attacked to death!
Some Church of War clerics who still had their sanity—didn't they know how crazy the Church of War had become?
Some clerics could even feel it more directly than outsiders.
It felt like countless clerics were being mysteriously sacrificed every single day.
In the Goddess of Magic's divine realm.
Looking at the mech that had basically taken shape, Ren was quite satisfied. But work-life balance, right? After a simple round of testing, he lay back in his recliner, ready to rest.
"War miracle, War Strongmen? Why does it feel like the Church of War's whole vibe is getting more and more off?" Ren could actually browse all the online information in a single thought, but he didn't. Instead, like an ordinary person, he scrolled through pages. "If during the earlier war with those beastmen, the War God's miracle wasn't resurrection but activating bodies like this instead, the Kingdom of Dawn might not have won so easily."
"This should be the first time the God of War used this kind of miracle. It hasn't happened before." Betty, who was resting nearby, came over, took a quick look, and gave an answer that somewhat surprised Ren.
"Actually, this confirms my guess. Those clerics who died mysteriously in large numbers earlier really were drained dry by the God of War." After seeing this news, the Goddess of Magic gave an even more interesting conclusion.
Several days ago, they'd learned that Church of War clerics had been dying mysteriously and frantically, but they couldn't determine the exact reason. If it was an external enemy invasion, the Church of War could easily promote them as martyrs. If it was internal strife, they'd definitely choose more appropriate death methods to make it more reasonable...
They'd even had guesses—like maybe the clerics died from divine punishment for blasphemy against the God of War, or they died from the God of War's corruption, and so on. But they'd ruled out all these possibilities one by one.
The reason was simple: the Church of War's stability exceeded imagination, with deep faith foundations. Operating like that wouldn't gain them any benefits and might even shake their foundation.
Eventually, the Goddess of Magic came up with one possibility: the God of War had sacrificed these clerics, or rather, these War clerics were sacrificed to the God of War. Maybe the God of War had some plan that required these "high-end human sacrifices."
A new miracle made the Goddess of Magic even more certain of this.
"We'll deal with problems as they come. Since we know the God of War is stirring up war in the mortal realm for some unknown purpose and summoning more clerics to the divine realm, we just need to have mortal forces stop it as much as possible. Then take advantage of this opportunity to expand our faith, absorb more faith power, and increase our strength. Then there's nothing to worry about."
Ren's thinking was pretty simple. Let mortals in the mortal realm stop the God of War's plans while they themselves kept getting stronger. In this situation, what was there to worry about?!
He didn't believe the God of War would suddenly become an existence they couldn't fight. If it could be achieved that easily, the God of War would've already become the king of the divine realm!
"The magic railgun's battlefield performance also seems fiercer than we imagined." The Goddess of Magic nodded slightly and stopped worrying about it, instead turning her attention to this battle.
Who knows how many peasants, serfs, and slaves were converted into monsters comparable to supernatural beings—the number was horrifyingly difficult to calculate. But facing these monsters, the magic railguns actually let the Kingdom of Dawn's forces completely defeat and kill them all with zero losses. Even she found it a bit surprising!