The church acted quickly. After the bishop in white handed over the matter to Randolph, Randolph took action.
The first thing to do was to make a list of the priests who had been affected by the news, and combined with the forces of the local nobles who had good connections, they captured them all in less than a day, and none of them escaped.
Among them, the priests of Rose City where Rachel was located were almost completely wiped out. Whether it was Rose City or the city below, almost no priest was innocent.
Not only that, Randolph also asked the cardinals who came to the meeting to report some of their priests who had not been affected by the news, but who had indeed violated the canon rules. If they only dealt with those priests who were affected by the negative news, they would not be able to take the initiative. In the eyes of others, they were just making up for the situation. Randolph had to do more than just make up for it.
What he wants to do is to create a glorious image of the church that takes the initiative to clean up the remaining scum within the church, instead of a negative image that is dealt with passively after the news is exposed.
At the same time, the news was still confined to the cities centered on Nafu City to prevent the news from spreading.
While Randolph was doing these actions, Claire did not move at all. This made Randolph even more sure of his own thoughts: Claire did not intend to fight to the death with the church, and he still had a purpose in doing so.
On December 3rd, the church in the Kingdom issued a rare announcement. This announcement listed some pastors in various cities who had violated the church and the law. Their crimes were listed in extremely detail, and even the time and place were clearly marked.
As soon as this announcement came out, it immediately caused an uproar in the kingdom. Countless people were greatly shocked. In their opinion, the pastors of Church of Light were the messengers of God. How could they do something that violated the church and the law! And some of these things are simply unacceptable, and not everyone can do them.
And some nobles who knew the inside story were sighing: There are actually smart people in Church of Light who can turn this matter to their own benefit.
As soon as this news came out, many people's spiritual beliefs directly collapsed, and many people burst into tears after seeing the announcement.
However, some people feel that the church's move has made them feel good, especially after Randolph allowed people to guide public opinion in the direction of the church. Those whose faith originally collapsed quickly reshaped their faith, and their faith became stronger than before.
They believe that this is the fault of the pastors, not the church, and the church has taken the initiative to expose these scumbags and deal with them. What else do you want? What could anyone else have done?
Randolph has updated the church's mechanism and conducts audits of pastors in various towns every year to ensure that similar things will not happen again in the future.
Three days later, those priests who had seriously violated canons and laws were escorted to the square of the royal capital and executed one by one. At noon that day, the entire square was mostly soaked with the blood of those priests, and the believers who came to watch had their faith in the church raised to another level.
What is interesting is that among the priests who were dealt with, there was not even half a bishop.
Then came the month-long confession announced by the church. During this month, as long as you go to the church, you can get Holy Light Healing treatment for free.
After all this was done, Randolph began to relax the blockade of information, and the information in Nafu City was spread.
But after everything has been dealt with, how could those delayed messages have any impact on the church? On the contrary, the good news that was deliberately guided and fermented outside began to counterattack inside Nafu City. The original residents of Nafu City had changed their dislike for the church. After the news from outside counterattacked, they changed back to the mentality of passers-by.
"It's the small group of pastors who are bad, but the church as a whole is still good."
This is the consensus that Randolph has worked hard for so long to reach. Although a small number of people broke away from their belief in Church of Light during this process, on the whole Church of Light did not break their muscles and bones, but instead raised the faith of some believers to a higher level.
We can't say whether it's a profit or a loss, we can only say that it's a blessing and a misfortune.
These days, Claire has been inside the Baronial Manor. It's not that the news has been blocked and he can't receive news from the outside. It's that he has seen some of the church's actions, but he just hasn't taken any action.
Randolph's current actions were completely within his expectations, and there was no need to take action at all. It was exactly in line with his plan.
After reading all the messages on those envelopes, Claire burned all the envelopes on the table to ashes with a wave of his hand, but there was no trace of burning on the table.
He didn't know who sent these envelopes, but they contained information about the church's recent actions. However, Claire couldn't use these messages at all. Shane would pass them to him, and the messages were much more detailed than these. The main reason why he read them all was to make sure nothing was missed.
After burning the envelope, Claire rapped his knuckles on the table, closed his eyes and thought for a while. After about ten seconds, he suddenly opened his eyes and opened the trading panel. At this time, there were two dots Trade Points in the upper right corner of the panel.
Claire said without hesitation, "Start Trade!"
The swirling clouds and mist swept across again...
After more than ten minutes, Claire withdrew his attention from the panel and reached out to hold it in the void. Two spindle-shaped black objects with a thick middle and sharp edges appeared in Claire's hands.
Claire used a little force to separate the two objects. There seemed to be a certain attraction between them, and they were connected together like two magnets.
Claire placed the other one almost one meter away, and then moved the black spin cone in his hand. At the moment of the move, the other spin cone one meter away also moved.
Claire raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "It's really interesting..."
So a little ink was applied to the tips of the two objects, and then a layer of white paper was laid on them. Claire held one of them upright, and the other spindle a few meters away also immediately stood up. Claire began to scribble on the paper in front of him, and finally stopped after drawing a pattern that he would never be able to draw exactly the same again.
Then Claire ran to another place, raised two pieces of white paper, rushed them towards Magic Lamp, and slowly overlapped them. The lines and patterns on the two papers completely overlapped, without any shadow at all, they were exactly the same.
Claire picked up the two spindles in his hand and took a look, a little surprised, "Quantum Entanglement?"
Later, other experiments were conducted, such as putting a certain weight on another spin cone and then moving the other one. The result is that the spindle that is pressed with a certain weight does not change at all, and can only synchronize with the other one without the influence of foreign objects.
After playing around for a while, Claire quickly lost interest. He originally planned to conduct a transaction to see if he could get a treasure or something to use against the church.
But now that I have this thing, although it cannot be said to be useless, it is better than nothing.
After thinking about it, Claire still hasn't figured out what this thing does. According to the transaction partner, it can make ultra-long-distance synchronous contact, but this is a magical world, so it's not very useful.
After reaching the Archmage level, there is a spell that can make a magic version of "video call", but my text communication is still behind the other party.