Night's Veil's Great Extinction

Aurora Grand Cathedral of Light.

Hayes looked toward the secret intelligence scroll. After a long while, he frowned slightly.

"Solar Energy Laboratory, fission Radiation Weapon?"

As the great Pope of Light and the mortal representative of the Creator of Light, he was indeed great, learned, wise, and supreme. However, his understanding of the world was still limited to what lay within the theological system.

In his eyes, the true gods were supreme existences.

The development of all things was merely a competition revolving around the true gods of their respective divine systems.

That was precisely why his attitude toward the lands of the duchies was the same as that of all the popes before him: they were merely tools to be exploited.

The greatness of the true gods was far beyond what these scholars could imagine.

Yet the fission Radiation Weapon described in this secret intelligence was truly exaggerated.

Could a tiny metal sphere really destroy a city in an instant and leave nearly half a province under so-called radiation contamination?

His first instinct was that the intelligence was false!

But then, he seemed to think of something. Looking at the arbiter below, he asked sternly, "Is there some news from outside?"

"There have indeed been some rumors."

The arbiter said hesitantly, "Many believers are saying that the Solar Energy Laboratory of the Grand Duchy received the God of Light's divine grace, which is why it possesses such power! They also say... they also say..."

He stammered, glancing at Hayes from time to time, looking as though he could not bring himself to speak.

"Speak!"

Hayes said in a deep voice.

"Yes! They also say this is because the great Creator of Light was dissatisfied with the Aurora Grand Cathedral of Light repeatedly asking believers to offer themselves during these