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Chapter 906 - 468: Hearthstone Witch Successfully Creates Dark Soul_3

Chapter 906: Chapter 468: Hearthstone Witch Successfully Creates Dark Soul_3

Ivita, the Hearthstone Witch, the King of the Ancient Tomb, the Hierarch of the Sun God Sect, and others held a meeting in the Royal Capital of Lombardy, where they decided that Tartax would continue to rally potential allies for the time being, while other knights and witches would lead the army to defend the three countries.

Among them, Ivita specifically instructed the King of the Ancient Tomb to go to Cross Island to urge the citizens there to build ships in preparation for a sea battle.

After all, although the Alsace Kingdom was landlocked, the Empire had a portion of excellent ports and a medium-sized navy that maintained the commercial trade of the Imperial Emperor’s territories. If they could blockade the Emperor’s territories at sea, it would cause significant damage to his lands.

A week later, Ivita in the Royal Capital of Lombardy received confidential intelligence that Henry VII had suddenly fallen ill and had no choice but to abdicate. Jalen ascended to the throne of the Alsace Kingdom, self-styled as Louis XIII.

But his legitimacy was too low at the time of his accession; many within the nation began to doubt who their real king was, and the Church even refrained from sending the Metropolitan Archbishop of Alsace to crown Louis XIII, instead sending a mid-level official from a branch of the Church.

The dissatisfaction of the Church and the insult to Jalen were clearly visible.

Moreover, the attacks by the Subspace Demon God within Alsace were so fierce that Ivita had not anticipated that the Sea God would use the corrupting power of the Subspace to make one Alsace village after another join the Subspace, causing the Kingdom of Alsace to be unable to manage itself and needing to address the more urgent Subspace invasion first.

However, every disadvantage has its advantage.

Already, many nations, worried about the overflowing Subspace, began to donate supplies to Alsace.

At the same time, the Empire was caught in another turmoil; it turned out that a state within the Empire named the Huss State openly changed its national religion to a heretical belief that discarded the Church, where individuals could interpret the scriptures themselves.

Emperor Aoyue III of the Empire immediately led troops to suppress this state to prevent the foundation of the Empire from being shaken, and compared to that, the threat from Ivita was no longer so pressing.

Since the foundation of the Empire was the Church’s faith, once this foundation was shaken, the Empire would disintegrate. The Emperor was the protector of the Church’s faith, and in such times, he could only set aside personal grievances and his disputes with the Church to concentrate on dealing with the heretical state.

For the Church, heretics were even more dreadful and evil than heretics; the Church might deal mildly with heretics, but could by no means tolerate the existence of a heretical state.

Because a heretic truly threatened the life of the Church.

Meanwhile, Ivita’s grand drama, the pilgrimage, began, seizing this perfect international situation where Alsace and the Empire were stretched thin. He started walking towards the Holy Mountain as a monarch in a conspicuous pilgrimage.

Countless believers within the Magic Black Forest were moved; many believers cursed Louis XIII as a demon, declaring him unworthy to sit on the throne that belonged to Ivita. Even believers within Alsace, upon hearing of this, began to sympathize with Ivita and rebellions started to occur.

On hearing this news, the Pope was exceptionally joyful, even moved, feeling that there were still good monarchs in this world.

According to messages spread by the Red Bishops who attended the Pope’s banquet that day, Pope Innocent II had tears in his eyes while eating a piece of mung bean paste cake, personally declaring that he would choose Ivita as the monarch to lead the next Crusade.