Just as Chen Yi and the Malice Worm stared each other down, the Holy Church began to act.
First, it publicly denounced the Shadow Plunderer Guild's actions, pointing out that it was the Shadow Plunderer Guild's theft of the holy water reserves that had caused the current shortage.
The reputation of those Shadow Plunderer Guild assassins in the Magic Power World had long since become utterly foul. Mere condemnation was of little use.
But it allowed the church's subsequent actions to take the moral high ground.
The church loved peace. It had merely been driven into a corner by those assassins and left with no choice but to act.
In just two months, the Holy Church destroyed over 1,200 branch bases of the Shadow Plunderer Guild.
To locate those bases so precisely—if you said there had been no premeditation...
Who would believe that?!
For a long time afterward, Simon's face remained exceptionally dark.
For an assassin organization renowned throughout the world, just how many informants had infiltrated it?
This also showed that neither the churches nor the great nations had clean hands.
After so many assassins died, hardly anyone remained to carry out the magic power erosion missions.
It gave the church a chance to catch its breath.
Soon after, the Holy Church deployed a large number of nuns.
These nuns had received the Deity's blessing and could use Divine Techniques to reduce the effects of magic power erosion.
As the magic power erosion crisis gradually subsided, the Vast Sea Merchant Guild's Purification Potions began to languish unsold.
Watching the sales figures fall lower and lower, Sharlai had no choice but to seek out Chen Yi. "Lord Luowen, should we lower the price of the Purification Potions?"
"The Holy Church's nuns can currently handle magic power erosion. Hiring a nun