The news spread quickly to surrounding cities with Nafu City as the center.
The church also acted very quickly, closing all Nafu City's information channels leading to other cities to prevent the news from spreading.
Randolph also rushed to the royal capital. Now the missionary work in Nafu City is no longer important. The key is how to solve this problem. Not only Randolph, but also all the bishop-level clergy began to gather at the headquarters of the royal capital.
Internal church meeting...
At the main seat of the conference table, the bishop in white had a dark face and was silent without saying a word. The expressions of the cardinals below were also not very good-looking, especially those bishops who were affected by the spread of the news, with cold sweat already appearing on their faces.
"Randolph, tell me, what's going on?" The bishop in white put his hands together, put his elbows on the table, and could not help but exude a faint pressure.
Randolph stood up bravely and said that this incident was caused by him.
"Your Holiness, I think the news was spread by Claire..." Before Randolph could finish speaking, the bishops on the table slapped the table and stood up.
"Crack!"
"How dare he, a little viscount!"
"How dare you provoke our church! Let's destroy him! Otherwise, if this starts, then no one will dare to be disrespectful to us in the future!"
"Yes! He must be destroyed!"
The bishops cursed with righteous indignation, and each one of them clamored to hang Claire.
The bishop in white slapped his hand on the table, making a loud noise, "Crack!"
"Don't you think it's chaotic enough? Shut up! You kill each other at every turn. If you weren't wearing that red robe, I would have thought you were a robber!" The white-clothed bishop's intimidation was still there, and after this roar, the bishops all shut their mouths.
"I think it's all because of you people that caused these things, otherwise the other party wouldn't have caught them! Killing people? Are you priests or bandits! Is this the only solution in your mind?" The white-coated bishop was so angry that he wanted to smash the water glass in his hand on the heads of those people.
After yelling, the bishop in white took a few deep breaths, returned his gaze to Randolph, and said softly, "You continue."
Seeing that the Pope was so angry, Randolph felt a little frightened. He reorganized what he wanted to say to avoid saying anything that would make the Pope unhappy.
"Ahem." Randolph coughed a few times and continued, "I don't think the other party intends to be tough with us..."
Before Randolph could finish speaking, a cardinal sitting opposite him sarcastically said, "He has already reached this point, and he still has no intention of confronting our church? Bishop Randolph has stayed at Nafu City for a long time. Could it be that he is favoring him?"
Before the bishop in white could speak, Randolph retorted. His good temper was only with those believers, and the bishops at the same level as him did not have so much patience. What's more, the other party's words were obviously sarcasm, saying that he had become Claire's person.
"Bishop Rechel, I know you're unhappy when the dirty things you did were exposed, but please don't point the finger at me. I'm not a tool for you to vent your emotions!" Randolph stared at the other person's eyes.
"You!" Rachel stood up angrily, pointed at Randolph's nose and cursed, "If you hadn't insisted on messing with that Claire, would this have happened!"
"I was preaching!" Randolph also pointed at the other person's nose and scolded him, "This is the mission given to me by God. Do you want to hinder my mission? And you have the nerve to blame me! If you don't do those dirty things, there will be nothing! Of all the negative news exposed, you Rose City have the most! The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked!"
"How dare you, a newcomer, talk to me like this, don't you! Let's see how I teach you a lesson!" Rachel rolled up her sleeves and was about to rush forward to fight Randolph.
Randolph was not afraid at all and rolled up his sleeves to fight.
"That's enough!" The bishop in white slapped the conference table hard again, and the loud noise shocked both of them.
"Aren't you embarrassed enough? Are the two bishops going to fight in front of me?" The white-clothed bishop looked at the two of them sideways with a cold face. Randolph and Rachel immediately put away their sleeves.
"Rachel, sit down! Shut up for the rest of the process!" the white-clothed bishop ordered.
Rachel opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything. She sat back down and looked at Randolph who was still standing with an unkind look on her face.
"Randolph, continue talking." The bishop in white said in a low voice, then glanced at everyone present, and then said, "Shut up, everyone, and listen to what Randolph has to say!"
There were many cardinals affected by the spread of the news. They also put away their little thoughts and no longer dared to muddy the water so that they could get out of it.
Randolph also tidied up his appearance a little, and then continued, "I know the Viscount Griffin. He is a very smart man. If he really wants to make this matter bigger, these negative news will not be restricted by us Nafu City. From what I know about him, he has many ways to spread the news, but he did not do so.
So I said he is a smart man and would not be stupid enough to confront our entire church head-on. Didn't you find that the messages he spread were all personal? They named the things that a certain pastor did and did not throw dirty water on our church. "
The white-clothed bishop's eyes flashed, but he was still a little confused, "What do you mean by this?"
Randolph narrowed his eyes and said, "He left room for redemption and asked us to calm down this matter."
"Listen to what you said, Bishop Randolph has thought of a way to solve this matter?" The bishop in white was not as anxious as before.
"It's very simple to solve, Your Holiness." Randolph's mouth curled up slightly. He felt that since he met Claire, his mind has become much brighter.
The bishop in white stretched out a hand and said softly, "Please speak."
"Admit your mistakes and then take the initiative to correct them." Randolph said word by word.
As soon as he finished speaking, a bishop slapped the table again and stood up. But before he finished speaking, he was stopped by the bishop in white.
"Shut up! Have you forgotten what I just said?"
The cardinal shrank his neck and sat back down.
The bishop in white nodded and signaled. "Randolph, keep talking."
Randolph opened his hand, faced the colleagues on the seat, and said, "I know you think that the church cannot be wrong, and even if it is wrong, it must be the victim. But this is a wrong concept. The church can be wrong, as long as the Lord is always right!"
"So the solution is to deal with all the priests in the negative rumors and deal with them according to the regulations of the canon! Announce the results of the treatment to convince the public!"
Randolph As soon as these words came out, the bishops below all widened their eyes, and Rachel couldn't help but stood up again, "Are you even going to deal with me? Do you dare!"
Randolph ignored him, turned to look at the white bishop, and said, "This is my solution. It is simple and effective, and it can quickly restore the lost reputation of the church. It only needs to sacrifice some scum in the church, which is also a good thing for us."
Rachel also looked at the white bishop and shouted, "Your Holiness! Don't listen to his nonsense. That Claire is just a viscount. We just need to exert a little pressure, maybe send someone to threaten him, and let him take everything on himself! It doesn't have to be what he said!"
Rachel was extremely anxious now. If she followed what Randolph said, then according to the canon rules, she might be punished a lot. The other cardinals who had been affected by the negative news also began to plead for mercy.
Randolph looked at Rachel with an idiot look on his face and mocked. "Is your head full of water? You are still applying pressure. If it was effective, then Nafu City would already be under our control. You don't even know how many mountains he has behind him, so there's no need to attack us. As for the assassination, it's even more senseless. Under such circumstances, you dare to assassinate a noble like him? No one of us here will be able to escape prosecution, let alone you."
Randolph is right. In this case, once Claire dies, everyone's suspicion will definitely be on their church. Claire is a noble, and the most powerful people in the kingdom are also nobles. If your church killed a viscount for such a thing today, will it kill the earl tomorrow? Do you have to kill me in the end?
Therefore, if you want to kill the nobles, you can only use the law of King. Those nobles will not give the church the power to kill a noble at will. If this power is given, the church will become a Sword of Damocles above their heads.
The two sides started a new round of argument, but the bishop in white lowered his head and thought about it. After dozens of seconds, he slowly spoke.
"Leave this matter to Randolph."
It seems that some people don't like this plot of the church, so it will end tomorrow