The Snake-Men in Suvano had been wiped out.
Watching the livestream, Chris saw the players toss tons of black powder into the lake crater, where vast stretches of ground had been burned into glass, then blast up a beautiful mushroom cloud.
Whatever plans the evil god worshipped by the Snake-Men had, they were certainly dead in the water now.
With that, the Suvano Snake-Man incident was more or less over, and the Holy Crusade Army, a temporary military formation, could be disbanded.
Come to think of it...
Chris sank into thought. During this campaign against the Snake-Men, the Mechanicus Cult had barely made its presence felt... Damn, the players, including those who had joined the Mechanicus Cult, had all been too busy killing Snake-Men. Not a single one had bothered to operate under the cult's banner.
As for the engineering players, they had been busy adjusting their machines and had forgotten all about the Mechanicus Cult.
Still, he could hardly blame them. Chris had never offered contribution points, reputation, or any other rewards for promoting the Mechanicus Cult.
Oh well. It was hardly a bad thing. At least the Earth Mother Goddess and the Goddess of Agriculture Church had barely made their presence felt either.
That was enough.
As for promoting the Mechanicus Cult, Chris did not particularly care.
Religion was a kind of anesthetic. A modest presence to soothe the people of the current Kingdom of Bagnia was perfectly acceptable, but too much anesthetic was never a good thing.
Still, although the Holy Crusade Army could be disbanded, the Snake-Man affair was not truly over, nor could he rest easy.
The Inquisition's work had to continue.
Chris strongly suspected that some of the Snake-Men who had gone north were still alive.
The reasoning was simple: why had the Snake-Men