After a day of visiting, Isa returned to the temporary camp.

In addition to taking over the territories of these nobles, Gray Collar now also wants to take over the churches in these territories.

Although two religious figures, Isa and Flora, are temporarily in charge, Flora's ideas are too radical and were suppressed by Linde. Now the nuns of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Rescue can only assist Isa for the time being.

This made Isa very confused as to why the sisters who had worked together to save the world and the people had become like this.

But Isa had not experienced their pain, so she didn't say much.

Flora and her friends' idea is to disband all churches, let all believers believe in the goddess directly, no longer let priests and nuns play the original role of guides, and abolish all power of the church.

And all prayers and masses must be organized and held by the lord and his subordinate officials.

Return true faith to the people.

Such a radical approach naturally aroused strong opposition from churches everywhere. Even Flora's former fame could not suppress these voices of opposition.

This is just the most normal reform proposal Isa thinks among Flora's.

Some of the remaining plans were even more radical, so radical that Isa didn't even dare to make them public.

After reading these plans, Linde was also a little unsure.

To be honest, the plans proposed by Flora are too tempting. If they can be implemented, then at least in the western part of the North, the church will be completely under the rule of the lord, and the lord's power may even surpass that of the goddess.

In Flora's reform plan, the goddess completely became a clay idol, and the lord became the spokesperson of faith and the son of the goddess appointed by heaven.

That’s right, the son of the goddess in the literal sense. Lind suspected that the group of nuns really regarded him as the illegitimate son of the goddess. This was a bit too explosive, and he was directly detained by Isa.

Lind did not adopt Flora's plan because it was too radical and impossible to implement, but these plans are not without merit.

For example, the abolition of some unnecessary privileges of the church must be implemented at all costs.

Lind was not interested in bargaining with the nuns and priests about the sacrificial activities, but the church school must either build a new school in the local area to replace it, or the teaching materials and teachers must be replaced.

All clergy, like the nobles, only retained the title and their privileges were revoked.

However, the clergy were still better off than the nobles because they at least retained the right to carry out religious activities.

After being influenced by Flora's radical reform plan, many local churches chose to follow the less radical new plan that Isa later put forward.

This is also because the Church of the Goddess of Light is now constantly weakening, and because of some previous actions, the Church of the Goddess of Light's control over the North has become increasingly weak, so some churches chose to surrender directly.

Of course, the main reason is that the Central Church is now pursuing a contraction strategy, focusing on internal reforms within the Church, and it is difficult to spare the energy to deal with problems in the North.

The western part of the North is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no large regional church. There is no need to kill a group of people first like the nobles.

Moreover, Linde did not restrict church personnel from taking the civil service examination, but only stipulated that they could not preach in public after passing the examination. Therefore, many church personnel, in order to ensure the future of their own churches and to increase the Holy See's voice in the new territories, began to take their students to take the civil service examination to compete with those nobles.

Isa sat down tiredly in the temporary residence, only to find that Flora was discussing something with other nuns.

Although the relationship between Isa and these nuns was a bit strained because of the religious reform, it was official business after all. When Flora saw Isa come back, she quickly pulled Isa into the discussion.

It turned out to be the thing about the lantern dream that Lind had asked about before.

"Is there a cult claiming to be the orthodox goddess?"

Because she did not become a saint, Isa did not know much about this part of the history that the Holy See had briefly mentioned.

"Yes, they did split from the church."

Based on what she knew and the report sent by Lucanus, Flora explained the lantern dream to Isa.

"They are the saints who started the war of faith two hundred years ago. They claim that the goddess is the only god and the other gods are just false gods."

"Because they were contrary to the goddess's ideas of tolerance and fraternity, the church at the time cut ties with these saints, and because their teachings were too radical, these saints were labeled as a kind of cult by all other religions."

Isa was stunned, but somehow, in her heart, she actually accepted this twisted doctrine.

Perhaps she was too tired after a day of visits, Isa immediately shook her head to drive these outrageous thoughts out of her mind.

But Flora continued, "We think it's possible. After all, we have only seen the Son of God of the Goddess. As for other gods, there has never been a record of a true Son of God descending to earth. There are only some so-called saints chosen by God."

Isa, who had just taken a sip of water, almost spit it out. Suddenly, she seemed to understand why Flora's reform ideas were so radical.

"The Lord wanted to contact them, but for some reason, all the spies that this group of people had planted in some local churches ran away overnight."

Flora said as she stroked the ray gun in her hand.

Even through the mask, Isa could feel Flora's pity, and she also sighed, knowing that her gentle and kind sister Flora would never come back.

At this moment, in a solemn church that did not exist in reality, several figures whose outlines could only be seen formed a circle.

"Let's begin. Play the dream that Sister Bernice had."

After the leading nun finished speaking, the surrounding scene immediately changed. Several silhouettes started from the airport and experienced Lind's dream completely from Bernice's first-person perspective.

When seeing the huge space station, all the phantoms became somewhat unstable.

The leading nun froze the dream on the huge space station and asked, "Can we switch to a free perspective?"

The voice in the void replied: "You can try, but since the parts you can't see can only be restored through calculations, I'm afraid it will directly consume a lot of brain servants."

"These are all necessary sacrifices to get closer to the goddess."

"Understood, switching to free perspective."

As the voice in the void fell, the surrounding scene began to constantly change. The outline of the leading nun pulled the progress back to the time before the space elevator took off and watched it completely from a free perspective. Then she pulled the progress back again and carefully observed the city and staff around the elevator.

“Humans cannot imagine what they have not seen.”

The silhouette of the leading nun muttered to herself.

“They are actually the remnants of the golden age.”

Several other silhouettes were also constantly looking at the magnificent city in the distance, but unfortunately, this place on the edge of the dream could not be fully restored even if more brain servants were sacrificed.

"So will the assassination plan against Linde Rohr continue?"

The figure held his head and shook it, as if he also felt that his question was a little stupid.

"Since the other party has issued a warning, we can't bother with him any more. After all, he is a remnant of the Golden Age, and we need his technology and knowledge."

Another silhouette added: "Be careful when approaching them, and try to cooperate. If they are the survivors of the golden age, maybe..."

The figure paused.

"I really have seen a goddess."

The dream fell into a brief and strange silence.

"If you are the survivors of the Golden Age, why don't you stand up and denounce those false churches?" A figure stood up and asked indignantly.

The leading nun explained, "In the Golden Age, the title of goddess was not necessarily the same as it is now. There might not even have been a concept of gods at that time. To them, the goddess was probably viewed in much the same way as we view elves today."

“This is too exaggerated…”

The silhouettes couldn't help but take a step back, but when they saw the magnificent city beneath their feet and the Tower of Babel reaching into the sky, they felt that it was not impossible.

"Of course, all of this is speculation. The Golden Age is too long ago. Even during the Old Empire, the Golden Age was already an ancient legend that cannot be verified."

"I will show our sincerity to Linde Roll. It would be best if he agrees to cooperate. Even if he refuses, we must not provoke him. This matter must not be spread. It is forbidden to contact Linde Roll privately. That's it. Let's adjourn the meeting first."

After the Nun's outline finished speaking, she waved the lantern in her hand and the rest of the figures turned into black mist and disappeared, leaving only the Nun's outline in the dream of the Golden Age.

The scene changed, and the nun's silhouette turned the time back to the beginning, focusing on the girl who called Lind Roll "brother".

According to intelligence, there has never been a similar girl around Linde Roll, which means that she is most likely a relative of Linde Roll in the golden age.

But why is this girl somewhat similar to the current saint, Lilith Dorian?

The nun shook her head to herself, and the dream began to gradually collapse and dissipate.

It's just a slight resemblance, but it's too far away from Lilith Dorian's temperament.

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