Can doing nothing really make things develop in a better direction?
It was certainly a fine idea, but putting it into practice was far from easy.
Because the higher-ups of both churches were still fighting outside Green Tree City, the atmosphere between the two churches was taut as a drawn bow. Accidental clashes happened repeatedly, with skirmishes and even battles of varying scale breaking out every so often.
Fortunately, both sides still followed the rules. And according to those rules, before the duel had produced a result, the two churches could not engage in another large-scale conflict.
That limited the intensity and scale of the struggle, and Vol, who had been deeply worried, gradually breathed a sigh of relief.
In contrast, the God of Nobility's mood grew worse by the day.
He could see clearly that he had already fallen into a disadvantage in this battle for faith. Not only would his plan to use this opportunity to advance toward powerful divine power likely be impossible to realize, even the sphere of influence he had previously marked out had become somewhat unstable.
That was what angered him most.
The God of Nobility did not care much about where people's faith lay. In his view, what mattered most was not whom the people worshipped, but whom the nobles who ruled them worshipped. So long as the rulers worshipped him, he did not care whether the common folk did.
Thus, he had always focused on spreading his faith among high society, treating the lower classes with disdain.
In other countries, his church's influence was far stronger than that of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Culture—the Northwest Republic was an exception—but in the Mage Nation, the situation was reversed.
Even after years of preparation and influence, the Arcane Tower Federation's