Archbishop Guy entered a special space fragment alone. This space fragment had been created specifically for meetings between the five archbishops.
He stood before a jade chest and began to chant.
White light flickered across the jade chest as Divine Runes danced through the air. The seal on the jade chest was being opened.
At that moment, four figures appeared—the spiritual avatars of the other four archbishops.
"Archbishop Guy, what are you doing?" Archbishop Adele asked with a frown.
The four archbishops' spiritual avatars had all been drawn here by the disturbance. Every item stored within this space fragment belonged not to any single temple, but to all of them.
"A divine decree. I am retrieving the divine artifact, the 'Knight Restraint Plaque'!" Archbishop Guy said in a deep voice, waving his hand as a golden pattern of light flashed.
"Archbishop Guy, you had better be careful when using the divine artifact, the 'Knight Restraint Plaque.' Do not let its effects be exposed!" Archbishop Julian said uneasily.
The divine artifact, the 'Knight Restraint Plaque,' had never been used. The reason was that the temples held sufficient influence over the nobility and the knights, making its use unnecessary.
However, if news of the divine artifact, the 'Knight Restraint Plaque,' were to leak, it would create an enormous rift between the temples and the nobility.
No one would want such a divine artifact hanging over their heads—one that could strip knights of their ability to resist as soon as it was deployed.
If the temples and the nobility had already fallen out completely, then it would not matter.
But now, the temples and the nobility were practically intertwined. Most priests within the temples came from noble backgrounds. If conflict arose between the nobility and the temples, the consequences would be truly difficult