"Shadow, tell us what you discovered during your visit to the War God Temple today."
Seeing that all the empire's high-ranking officials who were not devotees of the War God had gathered, the Graycastle Emperor spoke slowly.
The space beside him suddenly trembled, and a shadow emerged from nowhere. Even standing before everyone, they could not make out the face concealed within it, as though he did not exist at all.
Yet everyone knew of his existence—and his terror. He was the Sword of Damocles hanging over every official of the Graycastle Empire. His duty was simple: to monitor all intelligence, domestic officials, affairs great and small within the nation, and foreign spies. He seemed to have been born from the shadows themselves. Other than the Graycastle Emperor, no one knew where he came from, who he truly was, or had ever seen his face... Yet regardless, he could appear beside them at any moment, suddenly materializing while they were doing anything at all. Every official regarded him with great reverence.
Today, the pope had come to meet His Majesty the Emperor, while Shadow had gone to the War God Temple to conduct an extensive investigation.
Recently, the atmosphere within the city had been somewhat strange, especially around the War God Temple.
No one knew exactly what had happened, but the source of it all seemed to be the War God Church, which had been causing havoc across the continent's other nations.
In truth, anyone perceptive enough would have noticed the clues from the people present.
"It seems the War God Church within the War God Temple is carrying out some kind of ritual. At least ten archbishops and over a hundred bishops have gathered there so far. Every archbishop possesses Legendary-level strength or above, while the bishops are no