While the battle raged, neither side's churches were idle. They remained busy preaching.
With all its higher-ups having gone off to war, the Church of Knowledge currently lacked leadership. The Church of Void Mask sent quite a few senior members to help maintain the situation, bringing a great deal of funding with them as well.
Sui Xiong had already made up his mind: if worst came to worst, he would bury the matter in money. No matter what, they had to keep up appearances—and even win this battle for faith.
The Church of the God of Nobility likewise received support from the various churches under the Human Pantheon. They lacked neither manpower nor funds, and their missionary work had remained unaffected by the war, proceeding in an orderly fashion all along.
Although the regions most convenient for preaching had more or less been "carved up," the remaining scraps, as well as those areas with deep faith in gods such as the God of Spellcasters and the Lord of Mysteries, were still well worth fighting for.
Although... the residents of those borderlands had always embraced the vulgar attitude of "whoever gives milk is mother," while the devout regions had not changed their stance just because the God of Spellcasters had fallen and the Lord of Mysteries had been captured and surrendered, pouring out mountains of money and dispatching wave after wave of manpower still produced results.
All in all, the Church of the God of Nobility held a slight advantage.
After all, their foundations ran deep. Setting aside everything else, they could deploy far more missionaries than the Church of Knowledge.
More people was always a good thing.
Watching this unfold, the God of Nobility could not help but smile to himself.
If this continued, then regardless of the outcome of