"First: slavery!"
"According to the Primordial Sacred Canon!"
"The Goddess of Light holds all souls equal."
"Therefore, slavery and all its variants and disguises are the greatest blasphemy and violation!"
"From this moment onward, in all lands touched by the Faith of Light, the keeping of slaves, trafficking of slaves, and treating people as property shall all be unforgivable grave sins, subject to the dual severe punishment of church law and secular law! The core principles of the Continental Universal Declaration of Human Rights shall be regarded as a worldly interpretation of the Goddess's doctrine that 'all beings possess equal spirits.' Effective immediately, it shall be incorporated into the supplementary canon and carry the same sacred authority as the ancient holy words!"
Rebellion, uprising, independence—all required an excuse.
Lynn's excuse was the abolition of slavery.
With this opening in hand, no matter what, his regime possessed an utterly righteous political correctness.
And that political correctness had also created the Northern Alliance's zero-tolerance policy toward human traffickers.
Now, the Church had begun to comply.
Everyone looked to Lynn together.
This meant that the sword of religion had also fallen into Lynn's hands.
They had anticipated this long ago, but they had not expected it to happen so soon.
This declaration was like a second thunderbolt. Slavery was the economic cornerstone of countless kingdoms, nobles, and even certain factions within the Holy See itself! Abolish slavery? Write "human rights" into the canon? This was not merely a religious reform—it was an explosion beneath the foundations of society!
Before the crowd could digest it, the Pope threw out the third bomb—and the one with the greatest historical impact—in an even more sorrowful and severe tone:
"Upon investigation, it has been found that after the Central Lands Calamity a thousand years ago, in response