In the end, after a full day had passed, only the massive Seventh Mobile Holy See and fewer than a hundred million Crusader Army warships remained on the battlefield.
The Black Church still had not surrendered.
The reason matters had gone so smoothly with the White Church was that several generations ago, its Pope had discovered the truth thousands of years earlier and had spent the following millennia gradually weakening the faith in the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness.
Most crucially, at the very end, a traitor had leaked part of the communications records between Ziegler and Lin Fan during their desperate final stand.
Then the complete records had been exposed, turning the situation around and making the people of the White Church believe the truth even more firmly.
Otherwise, if Ziegler had simply revealed the truth directly, many people likely would not have believed him.
That was why, when someone turned the tables and cleared his name, the so-called truth became easier for people to believe and accept.
But the Black Church was different. Their faith had not undergone a long period of dilution and remained as fanatical as the White Church had been thousands of years ago.
Furthermore, Tevalin would never tell the Crusader Army below about this so-called truth.
As for Ziegler's other conversations, only those present in the central control room of the Seventh Mobile Holy See had known about them from beginning to end.
These many objective factors had directly created the utterly different endings of the Black Church and the White Church.
At this moment, the Seventh Mobile Holy See was covered in wounds. If it had not been large enough and possessed sufficiently strong defenses, it would have long since been destroyed.
Even so, this Mobile Holy See, as enormous as a miniature Starry