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"Not good, they're coming for my family!" In Middle Earth, within the illustrious Pameshi Clan, a man who looked to be in his prime slapped his hands together, realizing something was wrong.

Not long ago, word had arrived from headquarters.

The headquarters' Mechanism Department had summoned the Holy Son, Naimus.

Anyone with even the slightest connections could dig up the news.

The Mechanism Bishop had assigned Naimus an extremely difficult task—reclaim the Azure Sky Whale territory.

Yet once Naimus completed it, he would obtain the status prepared by the Mechanism Bishop.

With that status, he would not immediately become a Mechanism Bishop.

But his standing and position would immediately become different.

The reason Jialis was so exceptional was because the merits she had previously earned were already great enough—great enough for her to be immediately appointed a Mechanism Bishop.

It was only because no position had been vacant at the time that this "reserve" status had been created.

The Church had been extremely restrained in granting this status.

Over the years, there had actually been far fewer reserves than Mechanism Bishops.

Because with one careless move, the thirteen Mechanism Bishops might expand in number because of it.

It had nearly happened in history. One reserve had found that all thirteen Mechanism Bishops before him still had very long lifespans.

He could not wait that long, so he used his status as a reserve to begin pushing for the emergence of a fourteenth Mechanism Bishop.

The Church had fallen into great turmoil during that period, and factional strife had become especially fierce.

In the end, the Pope of that generation had directly summoned the God of Precepts and thoroughly suppressed that man.

Thus, for a long time, the Church of Precepts had not had the status of Mechanism Bishop reserve.

Now