The Path to Sainthood from Fairy Tail

Li Xuan kicked him angrily, "What are you yelling for? Did you hear my questions? Answer them one by one right now, or I'll show you what cruelty is!"

"No, no. I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"

Baili Muyun had no liking for such spineless people and said with disdain, "What a piece of trash, not even daring to resist."

The fat bishop immediately put on a fawning smile, "If Your Excellency wants me to show a rebellious attitude, that's not impossible, I..."

Li Xuan interrupted directly: "That's enough, you're not needed here. Now you just need to answer my questions."

"Enough with the small talk, let's get to the first question! The number of divine messengers in each church!"

The fat bishop thought for a moment, then began to spill the beans about the other churches: "The Church of War had two divine beings, who died in the battle. As for the Church of Light, the Church of Darkness, and the Church of Elements, they each had one divine being and one divine being."

"Because the creation of a divine being requires the consumption of faith power, and faith power belongs to the gods. Unless the gods agree, no one can misappropriate it."

Li Xuan squinted, then asked as an outsider, "I heard that your Life Church has formed an alliance with a new church, what's its name again?"

The fat bishop reminded him, "The Holy Church..."

"Oh right! It's the Holy Church. Can you tell me what your purpose is?"

The fat bishop: "Uh... to be honest, sir, actually our Church of Life feels that we are not strong enough and want to enhance our ability to protect ourselves..."

"How dare you spout such nonsense!" Li Xuan roared, interrupting the fat bishop.

"No, sir. Everything I've said is true; I wouldn't dare conceal anything..."

Li Xuan said coldly, "I think you won't shed tears until you see the coffin; you have to experience pain before you'll obediently listen."

Immediately afterwards, he waved his hand, and the robots around him surrounded him.

The roar of steam and the whirring of chainsaws sent a chill down the spine of the overweight manager, whose eyes were fixed on the darkness.

He had every reason to suspect that the terrifying weapon would fall on his body at any moment.

When the robot approaches with its weapon, it pays great attention to speed, ensuring that the weapon gets close enough to make the fat bishop feel the approaching danger, but not enough to kill him outright.

In the fat bishop's perception, the chainsaw was getting closer and closer, as if it would take his life in the next second.

The fat bishop, panting heavily, finally succumbed to his desire for life and cried out, "No!"

The chainsaw stopped immediately.

The fat bishop's clothes had been cut open by a chainsaw.

Li Xuan said impatiently, "Alright, this is just a warning. You need to understand that whether it's your arm or your head, it's all the same to me—equally useless. If you can't even seize this last chance to tell the truth, then I'll have no choice but to physically destroy all these useless things!"

"Yes...yes, I understand." The fat bishop hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Taking the opportunity, Li Xuan added another kick, urging, "Hurry up and say it, I can't waste my time on you."

The extreme humiliation did not render the fat bishop speechless with shame and indignation. On the contrary, he suppressed his grievances and began to tell Li Xuan the details: "The alliance with the Holy Church was a unanimous decision by the higher-ups. The specifics are also very simple: it was all a pretense."

"camouflage?"

Li Xuan and Baili Muyun exchanged a glance. If the alliance between the Church of Life and the Holy Church was a pretense, then it could only be to conceal their strength and lull other churches into a false sense of security.

Li Xuan stepped on the fat bishop, continuing to put pressure on him, "You mean, the Church of Life is actually stronger than the other churches, but it can't withstand the combined attack from the other churches. So you've found the Holy Church to act as a shield to reduce the attention of the other churches!"

The portly bishop, panting, replied, "Yes, the emergence of the Holy Church was not expected by His Holiness the Pope, but its emergence has given us more options."

Li Xuan pressed further, "So what do you plan to do when you don't have the Holy Church?"

"At that time, the War Church was already running out of resources, and our main goal was to find the strongest church to cooperate with. The Church of Light was the initial target."

Church of Light...

Li Xuan vaguely remembered that the Church of Light had been ambushed by the Church of Darkness, which had devoured all of its forces and then withdrawn from the battle.

Although the surprise attack was a factor, no matter how you look at it, the Church of Light has serious problems.

"And then, putting aside your allies, how do you plan to deal with the final victor?"

The portly bishop's eyes darted around before he finally spoke, "I think we should wait until the other churches are both severely weakened, then..."

Li Xuan asked coldly, "Do you know or not?"

"I don't know. This information is top secret; only the Pope and a few other bishops in charge of its implementation know the details. I'm not capable enough because I wasn't selected to be part of the plan."

Baili Muyun sighed, "What a useless piece of trash."

Li Xuan began to analyze the known information: "I originally thought the Elemental Church had the best chance of winning, but a Dark Church appeared halfway through, and it fought the Elemental Church to a standstill."

Baili Muyun added, "No, this shouldn't be an accident. The Church of Life is operating in the shadows, constantly pushing this situation forward."

Li Xuan seemed to have thought of something: "It seems the Church of Life is intentionally shifting the key to the battlefield onto the Divine Descendants. But aren't the number of Divine Descendants fixed for each church? Could it be..."

The fat bishop shuddered. Although he was not very capable, he was still quite clever; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to sit in the position of bishop.

Under Li Xuan and Baili Muyun's frank discussion, the fat bishop quickly grasped the key point, and with the inside information he knew, he soon came to a terrifying conclusion.

Li Xuan asked again, "So, has your Church of Life embezzled the power of faith from the gods?"

The portly bishop chuckled and said, "How could that be? Without God's permission, even the Pope wouldn't make a decision to use the power of faith for personal gain! We are God's most faithful believers; we would never do something that only heretics would do!"

"So what methods do you plan to use to deal with the other churches' divine messengers? They won't let your divine messengers stand by and watch from the sidelines!"

The fat bishop said, "Well, I'm not sure either. Information about the divine messengers in each church is top secret. Even I don't know the specific abilities of the divine messengers in our church."

Baili Muyun felt bored. "I don't think this person knows much. Let's just get rid of him. I think that group of divine beings should be meeting soon."

Li Xuan: "I'll ask you one last time, is there any news you haven't told me yet? If you're really this useless, I'll have no choice but to follow my partner's wishes and send you to meet your god!"