The Path to Lordship Begins in the North

After the war ended, Isa was given a rare period of rest.

Although she no longer needed to lead the resistance in battle, Isa originally intended to continue teaching at the school.

Linde had no reason to refuse, but before that, he asked to take a good rest.

Balancing work and rest has always been a key point emphasized by Linde. It seems that the people around Linde are working too hard. Now that the situation has stabilized, they should get some rest.

"Where is Lady Flora?"

Isa arrived at the church and asked the nun in charge.

When the nun saw Isa arrive, she naturally dared not be negligent and replied, "Lady Flora has gone to test the new weapon."

Upon hearing this answer, Isa couldn't help but sigh. Although the church had indeed begun to develop in a positive direction under Lind's control, the nuns' behavior was becoming increasingly distorted.

Because of their outstanding performance on the battlefield of the Golden Harvest Plain, more and more people began to consult the church, but none of them wanted to become monks; instead, they wanted to become members of the Battle Sisters.

Linde was actually aware of this problem. The nuns' style had completely gone astray. If they stayed in the church, they might lead the church's style astray as well.

To prevent this from happening, Lind reorganized the Sisters' Order. Although the members were still active nuns, the Combat Sisters' Order was no longer directly related to the Church. Instead, it became an organization directly under Lind and was incorporated into the army.

However, even though the Church and Lind had repeatedly emphasized that the Battle Sisters had little to do with the Church except that their members were working nuns, and that they were a direct organization of the Governor, people still came to inquire about them every day.

As more people came to inquire about the Battle Nun, a somewhat disrespectful thought popped into Isa’s mind: what would the Goddess’s reaction be upon seeing the Battle Nun?

Isa was in a relaxed mood, thinking it was a pity that the goddess hadn't responded to her followers for a long time. If the goddess started responding to her followers again in the future, Isa really wanted to ask her.

After putting that disrespectful thought out of her mind, Isa began to wander around the church.

This church was built in imitation of the Basilica of Our Lady of Salvation, and you can see the influence of the Basilica of Our Lady of Salvation in many places. After all, both Flora and Isa came from the Basilica of Our Lady of Salvation.

However, the real Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation is still located in the territory controlled by the demons.

Thinking of this, Isa felt that she couldn't stop yet and had to work harder. Although she didn't know when Linde planned to reclaim the lost territory, Isa planned to resign from her teaching position and continue to follow Linde to fight when Linde declared war.

Of course, Isa's view is conservative. The current Church of Goddess is no longer opposed to war and has tacitly accepted that the North is currently in a state of war, and the area north of Broken Snow Territory must be reclaimed.

Even the Church was the main force constantly urging Linde to send troops as soon as possible. Their ideas were even more radical than those of the military. They believed that, if necessary, it was necessary to thoroughly wipe out the demons and the eternal frozen land, completely annihilating the demons into history.

Why? Because the doctrines of the demon gods have crossed the line of the Goddess Church. Even if the Pope, who is far away in the capital, came, he could only turn a blind eye and remain silent in the face of the radical proposals of the Northern Church.

If it weren't for the fact that the demons are closer to the North, the Pope would have been even more radical in his stance on demon doctrines than the Northern Church. However, given the current strength of the Central Church, they might only be able to issue a strong statement of condemnation, and the demons could probably just change their doctrines and that would be the end of it.

But the Northern Church truly wanted to settle both old and new scores, and make the demons disappear from history.

As a result, some members of the Northern Church even began to criticize Lind, feeling that the Governor should now begin to build the Northern Holy Army so that the Church could participate in the future campaign against the demons.

A swift and sustained bloody revenge against the demons—this is not irrational, but the only rational strategy. Even Lind, faced with the Northern Church's insults, could only wipe his face and say, "You're going too far."

Well, even if they've severed ties with the Battle Sisters, the Church of the North still looks rather abstract.

Not only has the church's style gradually gone astray, but the prayers of its believers have also become increasingly absurd.

"Your Majesty, I hope the Governor will become King soon."

"Goddess, I hope you will not be ungrateful and will soon show your power to support the Governor in becoming Pope."

"Goddess, could you please unleash divine punishment and wipe out all the demons?"

The believers even felt that the church was too conservative. Isa could no longer tell whether the believers were influencing the church or the church was influencing the believers.

But one thing is certain: the goddess's power is diminishing and her influence is shrinking. Isa can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Although Isa also supports the idea that religious power should be subordinate to the governor, the goddess's influence has indeed waned, and Isa still feels a sense of inexplicable sadness.

But in the end, no matter how the Northern Church's ideology changed, Isa decided to worship the goddess according to her own ideas.

Having finally calmed herself down, Isa knelt down and prayed devoutly before the statue of the goddess Our Lady of Salvation. Her prayers were not as outrageous as those of the other believers; she simply hoped for favorable weather, peace and prosperity for the country, and for everything to go well for the Governor.

Just as Isha finished praying and was about to get up, a completely emotionless female voice suddenly rang in her mind.

Isha froze on the spot. Although she couldn't understand it at all, there was no doubt that this was the goddess's oracle, and the goddess had responded to her!

Although the goddess's oracle was somewhat difficult to understand, Isa still wrote it down very carefully. After silently reciting it a few times, she got up and looked at the crowd of people praying around her.

The prayers included ordinary citizens and church members, but no one noticed anything unusual.

Could it be a divine message from the goddess, given to her alone? Isa looked at her hands in disbelief. Although she was a saintess, Isa knew that while her status as a saintess was recognized by the Central Church, it was essentially bestowed upon her by the Northern Church itself.

Isa, unusually losing her composure, disregarded everything else and ran wildly to Lind's mansion.

"Has the goddess issued a divine decree?"

Linde, who was still in his office, jumped up when he heard the news.

Lind might doubt the authenticity of others' claims of hearing the goddess's oracle, but if Isha says she heard the goddess's oracle, even a moment's hesitation from Lind would be disrespectful to the heroine.

Has God finally taken action?

Has the goddess finally "woke up"?

Will my crush find out if I try to take advantage of her?

Although Isa tried her best to memorize the goddess's oracle, it was quite difficult to pronounce, especially the last part. So when Isa recited it, Lind felt that the oracle sounded familiar, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. How could there be such strange language? The style of the first, middle and last parts were completely different.

"I'll try praying for myself!"

In the end, Lind decided to take matters into his own hands. There was a prayer room in the mansion, although Lind rarely went there and it was mostly used by other believers of the Goddess Cult in the mansion.

This time, however, Linde prayed strictly according to religious standards in the prayer room.

Surprisingly, Linde, who wasn't even a novice believer and was constantly exploiting and taking advantage of the goddess, also received a response.

However, this oracle was somewhat different from what Linde had expected. A very unfamiliar, yet somewhat familiar, female synthesized voice echoed in Linde's mind:

"System is restarting, please try again later."

"Systemrebooting,pleasetryagainlater."

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