Kallen gently stroked the thick case file in his hands. Its power already equaled that of a forbidden spell. In fact, even a forbidden spell would struggle to achieve its effect.
The York City District already held a special position within the Order God Church system. It was clearly unrealistic for a single forbidden spell to affect most of the district's bishops.
Even the Fallen God's inheritor, the assassin Walotti, had only managed to assassinate members of the Chief Bishop's household. That was already the limit of what the Order God Church's laxity and his own flawless execution could allow;
Why had he chosen Kallen, an influential young man, as his second target after that successful assassination? Because he knew very well that security defenses around the other bishops and senior officials should already have been activated by then.
But... the six bishops the Chief Bishop had brought to the chapel last time happened to be the very people on this list. Kallen found it a little too coincidental.
Of course, this could be understood as the Chief Bishop's deliberate arrangement and selection.
But...
Kallen asked, "Your Eminence, Bishop, may I ask a question from my own personal perspective?"
Woforen raised a hand and said, "Of course. Ask away."
"Did those six bishops-no, those five bishops-really have problems to begin with, or did they happen to become problematic because the five of them went there that day?"
Hearing this question, Woforen smiled:
"What you want to ask is whether everyone is a black raven who simply likes wearing red clerical robes in everyday life, so that whenever necessary, you can step forward with your eyes closed, pick anyone, and tear off their robes to find that they're all black underneath?
"As for whether they're red or black, and whether their