On the way to the Calamity Church's Elder Hall, Woaofu described the oldest Elder's circumstances to Han Shuo in such detail that Han Shuo grew somewhat tired of it.
That Elder was a founding veteran of the Calamity Church named Kiron Luo. He deserved the lion's share of the credit for the entire continent's campaign against the Calamity Church several hundred years ago!
It was because he had unleashed plague across the Qio Continent like a madman, turning civilians in many countries into undead overnight. Plague was a vicious, contagious disease. Anyone infected with it, or bitten by zombies that had been turned into undead, would also become undead.
Kiron Luo had unleashed plague in one country after another, causing vast numbers of undead to spread and finally enraging every nation on the continent. Before Kiron Luo's mad act, the Calamity Church's reputation in the various countries had not been as good as the Church of Light's, but it had not been particularly bad either. Back then, members of the Calamity Church had still enjoyed relatively respectable standing.
However, the rampant plague had caused panic in every country, changing the attitude of every nation on the continent toward the Calamity Church and making it the continent's common enemy.
In that great war, the Church of Light had dispatched all its White-Robed Priests to travel through the continent's various nations. Only after exhausting all their efforts had they purified the vast numbers of undead created by the plague.
It was also then that the Church of Light, originally a small religious organization, had seized a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the continent's foremost religion in one stroke. Meanwhile, under attack from every nation on the continent, the Calamity Church had hidden away forever in darkness that could never see the light of