Watching the slowly healing space of his Divine Realm, Green lowered his head and fell into thought.
Ever since the Ruling Church had officially declared war on the Bane Church, he had been keeping a close eye on how the conflict was unfolding.
As for why he had chosen not to continue building up his strength and had instead gone to war a mere three years after his God Ascension—
It was entirely because, while secretly gathering information, the Ruling Church had discovered that the Bane Church wasn't nearly as powerful as they had imagined.
Though Bane was an old Greater Divine Power who had existed since ancient times,
he had brought disaster upon himself during the Time of Troubles, when Torm killed him. The entire church had suffered a crushing blow and had fallen apart completely.
After all, once a Deity died, no new members would join the church. It simply couldn't survive.
And at the time, the Church of Cyric had also absorbed a large number of the Bane Church's Believers.
All the Bane Church's accumulated resources had fallen into the Church of Cyric's hands.
Later, Cyric lost his Authority, and some of Bane's Believers returned once more.
But after all that upheaval, the Bane Church's number of Believers had dwindled, and it had lost all its accumulated resources as well.
Even whatever resources it might have had were long since absorbed by Cyric's church.
To a certain extent, the Bane Church was effectively an entirely new church.
So, after the Ruling Church's intelligence-gathering had revealed this, he had immediately ordered it to launch a Faith War.
And the course of the Faith War had unfolded just as he expected.
At first, the Bane Church had put up a fierce resistance, frequently gathering large numbers of Sect members