Sacred Light Mountain. Looking at the invitation sent by the Human Alliance Council in his hand, Pope Pius VII was utterly bewildered.
"What is going on? Why is the Human Alliance holding another meeting without our knowledge?"
By convention, for the Human Alliance to convene a meeting, it had to receive the support of more than half the Presidium before invitations could be sent to member states.
Although the Church had steadily declined in recent years, as one of the Alliance's major powers, it still had to be involved in matters like this.
In a sense, a Human Alliance meeting without the Church's participation was an incomplete Alliance meeting!
Yet now, everything had changed. The Church's weakness had been exposed, and the various countries no longer cared much about its stance.
"Your Holiness, when the Iberians, the Alpha people, and the Franks share the same position, they can make decisions on behalf of the Council Presidium even without informing us.
"The location of the meeting alone shows that the Alpha Kingdom played an important role in this.
"Nominally, they are discussing whether to grant Hudson the title of Human Marshal, but in truth, it is probably related to this Anti-Frankish War. We have been excluded..."
His voice grew softer and softer. The matter was too sensitive, and Bishop Montesol truly could not continue.
But with the implication laid out so plainly, everyone understood—the Church had been betrayed!
As the two great heretical powers of the Aslant Continent, the Franks and the Alpha people colluding with each other was entirely routine.
In the past, at the Human Alliance Council, those two had always formed a bloc against the Church and the Ilibia Kingdom.
The first and fourth powers against the second and third, maintaining the balance of the Human Alliance perfectly.