But the next event was almost exactly the same.
In 1476, after the Eastern Expedition failed, Heavenly Mandate issued "indulgences" to make up for its wartime losses. This undoubtedly caused immense suffering for the people of Europe.
Likewise, in the early sixteenth century of her previous life, Pope Leo X of the Catholic Church had also used the sale of indulgences to fund the construction of St. Peter's Basilica.
The Roman Catholic Church declared that as soon as the money paid for an indulgence struck the cashbox, the buyer's soul could rise from hell to heaven. This was... a despicable means by which the Roman Catholic Church plundered the wealth of the people of the countries of Western Europe.
But Heavenly Mandate was not the Catholic Church. Unlike Christ or God, what Heavenly Mandate truly took pride in was the strength in its hands.
By modern times, although the Catholic Church still had many believers, it no longer possessed much power. But after Heavenly Mandate reached the modern era, its power had become astonishingly immense.
Under Otto's development, Heavenly Mandate's branches had spread across the entire world, all because of the overwhelming strength it possessed.
The Heavenly Mandate Organization had initially excavated and studied ruins left behind by the previous civilization destroyed by the Honkai, gathering and analyzing the technology of Divine Relics and using it to fight the "Honkai." But after Otto became the Archbishop of Heavenly Mandate, he accelerated its research into Honkai energy and biotechnology, greatly increasing Heavenly Mandate's combat power against the Honkai.
Its strength had grown just as crazily!
Schicksal HQ, located in the skies above Austria in Europe, was a base composed of a series of artificial floating islands.
In an era when humanity had yet to leave Earth and cars could