Almost at the same time. Main World
"Your Eminence, the naval base has been reached." An attendant's voice came from outside the carriage. The driver had already brought it to a stop.
"Mm, I know." The Archbishop of the Radiance Church spoke calmly from within the carriage.
He looked utterly relaxed, as if what he was about to do was not establish a new naval base and inspect naval training, but merely go on a journey or an outing.
Or perhaps, in his eyes, the current situation was troublesome, but not yet serious enough to make his emotions show on his face.
A large number of the Radiance Church's elite had arrived at that secret training base ahead of him.
They had all been selected with great care. Although the Radiance Church had yet to fully recover its strength after the Demon Calamity, the order to transfer a large number of elites to the secret base had been issued directly by the Pope of the Radiance Church. It was said that the decree carried the will of the Lord of Radiance. Under such circumstances, once the order was given, ten thousand answered its call.
These people were all Fifth Level and above Knights and priests. They would train themselves into qualified naval warriors according to the Church's requirements.
Once professionals like them, already possessed of formidable abilities, adapted to fighting on water, they would become an invincible navy.
Essentially, no one would be able to stop them.
Though the cost would be immense, they would undoubtedly possess unparalleled combat power.
There was also a young man seated in the carriage. He was handsome, and his eyes glimmered with a light devoid of either sorrow or joy.
Something seemed to be missing from him. He did not possess the high-spirited vigor