While the Church of the God of Knowledge was actively preaching, the Church of Void Mask also began spreading its faith throughout the Arcane Tower Federation.
Naturally, they would not compete with the Church of the God of Knowledge for believers. But if they encountered people whose ideals aligned with theirs, there was certainly no harm in doing some appropriate preaching.
Rather, clergy who failed to preach when they came across a suitable opportunity would be the truly astonishing ones.
Nor were they alone. The joint church of the God of Medicine and the Healing God was preaching as well. Though the results were not particularly noticeable, their number of believers was indeed growing.
About half a year later, this wave of missionary activity gradually subsided. The vacuum of faith left by the fall of the Gods of Mystery had been filled and divided up, and the religious landscape of the Arcane Tower Federation underwent tremendous changes.
At this time, something both surprising and somewhat inevitable occurred.
Gray Tower City, once practically the holy city of the God of Scholars, publicly declared the faith of the God of Knowledge and Culture to be its official local faith. It also announced that it would join the Northwest Republic, becoming an exclave of the Northwest Republic.
This was not really anything unusual. Legally speaking, the Arcane Tower Federation was not truly a nation, but rather an alliance of several cities built around mage towers. Its structure was loose: cities could join freely, and they could leave freely as well.
Back when the Thunder Duchy and the Daka Trade Alliance were established, several cities had likewise withdrawn from the Arcane Tower Federation.
It was merely that afterward, the Federation employed various means to turn those two nations into its vassals, thereby downplaying the