"Tomorrow, the Order Elders Council will formally convey this Divine Edict to every church in the world. Any who dare assist the Pamireth Church will be regarded as enemies of Order!"
The atmosphere in the Conference Hall had frozen, not because everyone was deliberately suppressing their emotions, but because those emotions had found the most suitable outlet.
At that moment, Kallen thought of that evil dog at home.
When he first encountered information about the churches, Kallen had wondered what distinguished a True God from an Evil God. The explanation he later received was:
When a more powerful being declared you an Evil God, you were an Evil God.
It had nothing whatsoever to do with whether you were good or evil.
Just as at this moment,
Chief Bishop Woforen was reading the Divine Edict issued through the Order Senate. It contained two judgments: that the Pamireth God was an Evil God, and that the Pamireth Church was an evil cult.
The very nature of the weak was actually determined by the strong.
Looking around, Kallen saw solemn flames in the eyes of the Order God Church's Clerics, while the Clerics of the Pamireth Church all wore expressions of despair.
The former had shifted from their initial anger to a certain reserve, as though looking at opponents already locked in a cage;
The latter did not hysterically shout, "What gives you the right?" "Why?" or "How could you?" They seemed to have been drained of every ounce of strength, both physical and mental.
How many people chose to enter the Church World to escape reality, unaware that no amount of embellishment with faith or decoration with doctrine, no number of confessions, could redeem one original sin-weakness.
Kallen felt that if the Pamireth Church were stronger, once it reached a certain