Lin Qi lightly patted his chest. "Don't worry. Maybe there wasn't before, but if this war really drags on for a hundred years or more, as long as you can win the support of the goddess behind you, with my financial and military backing, becoming Pontiff isn't impossible!"
The two pressed their heads together and began whispering in low voices.
The flickering lamplight made their shadows sway wildly across the study. It was a huge candle Bilibili had deliberately lit. Bilibili believed that discussing all manner of schemes and conspiracies beneath such wavering candlelight was simply too fitting for a demon's style!
Two days later, storms suddenly rose across the continent.
First, the Moon God Temple of the Church received an enormous offering from the three great empires—the Dragon Mountain Empire, the Gallic Empire, and the Great Flame Dynasty. The Holy Maiden of the Moon God Temple boldly expanded the Moon God Knights in Berely, Gallic Empire, proclaiming with ferocious gusto that they would raise a million more troops and fight the Blood Qin Empire to the death!
It was worth mentioning that the Moon God Temple's military expansion received the support of the Church's three most powerful forces: the Temple of War, the Dawn Temple, and the Temple of Punishment. The three Pontiffs—especially the Scepter Pontiff, who held command over all of the Church's armed forces—straightforwardly granted the Moon God Temple unlimited authority to expand its army. Of course, the Scepter Pontiff's decree applied to every other temple as well. As long as they had the financial means, any temple could expand its military forces without limit, ready at any moment to fight the Blood Qin Empire's armies to the death.
Second, along the border between the Gallic Empire and the Harlan Empire, more than a hundred Harlan border