Are Perfect Beings Really This Weak? That Can't Be Right

March 6.

Several days had passed since Iver Moriarty became the Acting Pope of the Theocracy.

By now, even places somewhat farther away had learned of this unbelievable news.

Although some places remained pessimistic about the Theocracy's future, most opinions were heartening. They might not have known enough about Iver, but the fact that a human could take the position of Pope—even if only as Acting Pope for a six-month term—was still an extremely valuable precedent.

It meant that humanity's status was rising. As a Short-lived Races civilization that had not existed for very long, it now had a human standing at the top of a noble race like the elves. That fact alone was enough to make them stand on Iver's side.

Thus, people began taking an interest in Iver.

After investigations by reputable and disreputable newspapers alike, rumors—true or false—about Iver had become the biggest news of the past few days. There were interviews about Iver defeating demons while wielding a holy sword, as well as dense, varied, and thoroughly entertaining gossip.

Even the major news of Avalon declaring a ceasefire was skillfully overshadowed.

At that moment, in Antimony, Red Fort.

Pengbo Naqi, the "Red Prime Minister" today, had unusually refrained from playing with the Blood Servants he kept.

Even in the past, whenever he held family meetings with his "Children"... it was always amid an unrestrained and depraved, extravagant frenzy of Lustful Power. But now, these Children of the Moon of Antimony could not summon any interest.

"The intelligence has been reconfirmed."

Prince Heinrich, the master of the City of Knowledge, "Leipzig," and also the Earl Leipzig, said solemnly to the Red Prime Minister, "'The Perfect Being' did indeed appear in the Theocracy, and has now been defeated. I confirmed it through four different channels. Although the