Next, Fang Li learned some information from Gohwa.
According to Gohwa, all fifty-two members of the Amakusa-Style Church had been dispatched across France to conduct investigations.
She herself had been assigned to the Avignon district.
At present, Gohwa was the only member of the Amakusa-Style Church in Avignon.
However, because abnormalities had been detected in the Earth Vein beneath Avignon, the Amakusa-Style Church members were already preparing to gather there.
"Now that all of you have arrived, we can officially begin our operation once everyone has assembled."
Gohwa lowered her voice as she explained to Fang Li.
"Our foremost objective is to suppress the Papal Palace."
There was a Papal Palace in Avignon.
At the end of the twelfth century, the pope of the Roman Orthodox Church and the king of France had once come into conflict. In the end, the pope lost to the French king, granting the king the authority to issue orders to the pope of the Roman Orthodox Church.
One such authority was the right to demand that the Roman pope leave the Vatican and take up residence in France.
France intended to exploit its advantage of having the pope under its control, interpreting the various privileges and favors held by the Roman Orthodox Church in ways beneficial to itself before making use of them.
In other words, the pope of the Roman Orthodox Church had been imprisoned by France at that time.
The place of that imprisonment was the Papal Palace in Avignon.
Several Roman popes had once been confined in that Papal Palace over a period of sixty-eight years.
Yet the Roman pope's duties had to be carried out in the Vatican, which served as the base of operations.
For example, appointing cardinals, holding various meetings, administering the Papal States themselves, and handling the