Plan
"Bring me all the recent intelligence on the Supreme Council!" Archbishop McKinley ordered toward the door.
A cleric serving the archbishop entered carrying a Space Ring and presented it to Archbishop McKinley.
Archbishop McKinley took the Space Ring. It contained all the intelligence related to the Supreme Council from recent times.
He examined the reports one by one, and only then did he understand what he had done wrong.
McKinley could not be blamed for this. Previously, Archbishop McKinley had lost his authority within the War God Temple. Much intelligence had been inaccessible to him, and there had been no need for him to look into it, since he had no access to power at all.
At that time, the best possible outcome for Archbishop McKinley was becoming a priest with no authority, while the worst was becoming an ascetic.
Under such circumstances, how could Archbishop McKinley have paid attention to intelligence? After becoming archbishop and abruptly gaining power, he had lost his usual composure.
Without intelligence to support him, Archbishop McKinley had ordered the Supreme Council to dispatch an emergency team. That had touched upon the interests of every top noble—and these were no ordinary interests, but interests tied to their lives.
"Chairman Gould certainly knows how to win people over," Archbishop McKinley said coldly.
He tossed the protest letter in his hand aside, helplessness flashing through his eyes.
Yet this blow also dispelled the disorientation he had felt upon first gaining great authority, clearing Archbishop McKinley's mind once more.
Archbishop McKinley led a force of five Temple Knights, five level-five priests, one hundred level-four Temple Knights, and one hundred level-four priests through a teleportation array to Vanga Star.
Vanga Star was only two days' flight from Heda Star, making it the closest planet to Heda Star.
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