"In the name of the god I revere, I pray for Your divine might to descend and wipe away the dust of Order."
Delong floated in midair. Before him, a magic cube constantly rotated and transformed, calculating every detail needed to sustain the Throne of Order before him. At this moment, his aged figure exuded supreme majesty.
At the very beginning of Mr. Hoffen's Formation Notes was this exhortation to study:
[Remember, within your formation, you are god!]
Around Delong, more than thirty Clerics were reinforcing him. His son Eisen, his daughter-in-law Kaixi, and his youngest daughter were among them.
There were four more groups like this surrounding the Reincarnation Church's administrative building.
Together, they had summoned the Throne of Order and sealed off the entire building.
The magic cube rotated automatically. It was essentially impossible for the people of the Reincarnation Church inside to break free of the confinement anytime soon, and the garrison would arrive shortly.
The reason for this delay was secrecy.
To launch this surprise attack, the upper ranks of the Order God Church had used the Pamireth Church as a smokescreen to deceive everyone. The hardest part might not have been deceiving their opponents, but deceiving... their own people.
The last Orthodox Church to perish had been the Church of Light. In the nearly thousand years since, although the balance of power between the Orthodox Churches had shifted, the overall landscape had remained largely unchanged, and no large-scale church wars had broken out again.
The longer the peace lasted, the closer their exchanges and mutual infiltration became.
Some spies might already have established families within the opposing churches, with even the younger members of those families unaware that their own families were spies.
Before being deployed, the departing knight orders might have believed they were