The assassination of Priest Johnston had passed, but its repercussions had not faded.
Over the following period, priests and clerics of the temples were killed one after another throughout God's Great World. The investigations into these deaths more or less implicated the nobles.
Fortunately, aside from the War God Temple, the other four temples had not yet considered casting aside the Supreme Council. The four temples cooperated with the Supreme Council to investigate these cases.
In truth, both the Supreme Council and the five archbishops understood that this was all the work of an evil god, seeking to drive a wedge between the temples and the Supreme Council.
But as the number of cases grew, the lower and middle ranks of the temples and the Supreme Council became increasingly hostile toward one another.
During this time, many scoundrels within the temples were also reported, and for a while, all Five Great Temples were affected.
While God's Great World was in turmoil, David returned to Gami Star and continued his secluded cultivation.
In the Zerg World, the Mother Queen was reviewing the intelligence it had gathered through its special sensory abilities.
Some of this intelligence concerned the Zerg World itself, but most of it concerned God's Great World and the Interstellar Federation.
The intelligence came from Zergs capable of Bewitchment. They used their powers to control Interstellar Federation humans, turning them into Zerg spies to gather intelligence on the Interstellar Federation and God's Great World.
All those who had been bewitched were on War Star, and only humans of weak will from the Interstellar Federation could be successfully bewitched.
True Military elites of the Interstellar Federation, soldiers with unwavering resolve, could not be bewitched—let alone the Knights of God's Great World.
The bewitched Interstellar Federation humans had a somewhat easier time