After Academy City's student council presidential election concluded, senior officials and political leaders from the various regions met with Elsa, the principal of Academy City. They learned that the Holy Church would continue to refrain from interfering in internal affairs, provided every region strictly upheld the Child Protection Act.
They all left Academy City satisfied.
Meanwhile, every nation in the world received the Holy Church's Cursed Child Shelter Act, which required them to hand over all Cursed Children suffering discrimination to the Holy Church's care. This demand immediately sent their leaders slamming their desks in outrage.
The United Nations, led by the Eagle Empire, flatly declared it impossible. How dare a newly emerged cult make such a demand? Even the God Church, whose presence now spanned the globe, would not dare ask for that. Everyone knew that Cursed Children were an important part of each nation's military strength.
The International Initiator Monitoring Center, in particular, had been jointly established by the nations. How could some insignificant cult be allowed to touch their slice of the pie?
Faced with fierce resistance from every nation, the Holy Church launched military operations outright. The power it possessed in this world was no longer what it had been when it first arrived.
Ten legions split up and marched into the capitals of the countries putting up the fiercest resistance.
When the Holy Light Clerics descended from high above, the people of those nations thought they were watching meteors fall from the sky.
But the enormous impacts that followed told the gawking citizens that these were no meteors. They were under attack.
"Fuck! Where the hell did these monsters come from?" a middle-aged man with slicked-back hair and a designer suit cursed furiously.
**"Terrible news, Mr. President! The third defensive line has fallen! These people