THE EMPEROR OF TWO WORLDS

What a surprising message

Holy kingdom.

As the name suggests, the kingdom is used as the center of the church of Holy Light located on the northern border of the Kingdom of Westeria. Although called a kingdom, but in fact they only have one big city called Kiana Garden.

The city is led by a Pope, but there is a higher position than a Pope, the Holy Maiden or often called Saintess. Unlike the election of a pope chosen based on the power of Faith and his achievements in the Church, Saintess was directly chosen by the Goddess of Light, Kiana since they were infants.

Deep inside the Central Cathedral is a special room called the prayer hall. Inside the prayer hall was a woman wearing a muttering blindfold in a praying position. "so yes…. Alright, I understand Master Seraphim!"

Although the woman wears an eye patch, but on the forehead there is an additional eye with the color of her pupils golden and luminous which gives the impression of a true Saintess.

Right after he muttered, someone knocked on the door. Hearing this, he replied "Come in!"

A nun entered the prayer hall and said, "Her Majesty Saintess, Prince Julius of Westeria has come…."

 Before the nuns finished her words, Saintess said "did she come with a letter from the new Crown Prince of Westeria, Alex van Lester?"

Hearing the reply from Saintess, the Nun showed a face of admiration while saying "as expected of Her Highness Saintess! Have known everything in the future!"

Saintess simply smiled then calmly closed her third eye and moved her blindfold to her forehead to close her third eye. After doing so, he said "come home! Don't praise too much! Have the Pope and the Elders of the Bishop come together to hear the letter. This is a direct order from our Holy Goddess of Light!!"

Hearing that this was a direct order from the goddess, the nun began to think 'the letter must be very important! Until the Goddess of Holy Light commanded directly.' Afterwards, he immediately replied "as soon as I say!!"

…

After the news began to spread, all the Elders of the Bishop immediately began to gather in a large room called the Holy Hall and then sit in their respective places. The Holy Hall is usually used to welcome noble guests from other countries or hold meetings between church officials.

Saintess who sat on the holy throne, said to the Pope and all the Elders of the Bishops present "I get a message from our Goddess of Holy Light as well as an order from the Master Seraphim, I get a message from our Goddess of Holy Light as well as an order from the Master Seraphim, but I will tell you two things after you hear the letter from the new Crown Prince of Westeria."

One of the elder Bishops disagreed with Saintess' opinion which led her to say "noble Saintess, is not the message of the Goddess more important than the letter? Why didn't the noble one read the message first?"

Everyone present thought that it was indeed reasonable, but Saintess replied "the message from the Goddess this time was very short and Master Seraphim advised me to listen to the letter that came from Westeria first to understand the message from our Holy Goddess of Light."

Although they were confused by Saintess' answer, but they all obeyed her. Seeing no one protesting anymore, Saintess said "alright, Waiter. Have the messenger come in and read the letter!"

"as you wish, your Highness Saintess!"

Before long, Julius came in and greeted everyone and after he took out the letter and said "before I read this letter, I want you to know that it is still sealed. So, I don't even know what the letter is about."

Everyone understood that Prince Julius said his kingdom did not manipulate the letter at all and after he opened the letter and began to read it.

"Greet all the high-ranking members of the Church of Holy Light! I hope the light of the goddess Kiana always blesses you.

The first thing I want to convey is that I, as the new Crown Prince, declare to close the Church of holy light for a while and take back ownership of the church.

The reason for the closure is that we as the royal party of Westeria cannot allow any more of your Archbishops to continue to run our Church in his way. We will explain the sin of your Archbishop so that this closure occurs.

1.      Applying the entrance fee of 1 silver coin to anyone wishing to enter the church. This has left some residents of our capital unable to pray even if they wish to do so.

2.      Involved slave trade. The slave trade has officially become forbidden in our country, but your Bishop still does it and worse, what your bishop sells as slaves are children from orphanages built by the church itself.

3.      Discrimination against different racial populations. We are an open country for all races, but many reports state that the church often commits acts of violence against non-human races.

I think these are the only three mistakes that we cannot forgive and in the end we decided to close the church for a while.

The church does not need to worry that we have banned the religion of holy light. We closed it temporarily and moved it to a recently discovered temple called Temple 9.

The temple is not only used for the religion of holy light, but for every religion that represents the eight other gods. We also look forward to Saintess visiting our kingdom to see the Temple in Person.

because as the inventor of the temple I have to remind that this temple is not just any other ancient temple that has become a ruin. The temple is still worthy of use and holds many mysteries from the age of chaos.

Signed Crown Prince of Westeria, Alex Van Lester."

 …

An Elder of the Bishop broke the silence with his angry voice of "Dignity! It's the same way they spit on our faces!"

"right! We must begin to mobilize our forces to attack that Heretic kingdom!"

"Five hundred..? Nah! One million! One million of our holy army will be ready!"

"Oh! The Cardinals! The strongest knight of holy light, please lead an army to attack them!" an Elder of the Bishops said to the Cardinals sitting on the balcony of the holy hall, but none of them answered.

Many of the Elders of the Bishops voiced their protest and made the holy hall very rowdy. The pope himself sitting beside Saintess also began to ask "Saintess, what do you think?"

Saintess did not reply, but raised her staff slightly then hit the floor causing a light wave and spread throughout the entire Sacred Hall.

*SERVICE!!!*

"are you satisfied with the bullshit?!" Saintess replied with a cold look at the Elders of the Bishop.

The elders immediately knelt down then said in unison "PARDON US, YOUR HIGHNESS SAINTESS!!"

After they made an apology, Saintess said "alright, now I will read the message from our Holy Goddess of Light."

Everyone here had heard a message from Goddess Kiana and all of those messages contained praise or an order of feeding to the commoners, but this message left everyone shocked.

"ABJECTIVE! YOU ALL EMBARRASS ME!!" it was said by Saintess who opened her third eye and showed a sparkling golden eye, but the words coming out of Saintess' mouth really made everyone shocked.

After hearing those words, everyone knelt back down with cold sweat running down everyone's forehead. Nothing moved until Saintess closed her third eye and opened her usual eye.

Saintess who saw everyone goosebumps in fear said in a soft tone "then I will read out the orders of the Seraphim Master."

"The Pope and all the Elders of the Bishop, after hearing the message of the Goddess of Holy Light. Everyone please enter the prayer room immediately!"

Those called shuddered in fear and tried to plead with Saintess, but Saintess said coldly "Cardinal Rose! Lead them all to the prayer room!"

"as your highness commands!" a woman came down from the balcony and pulled out a white whip in her hand.

"come quickly, sir Seraphim called you!!" cardinal Rose said by hitting near the elders of the Bishop.

After the Elders of the Bishops left, Saintess again said to Prince Julius "Prince Julius, in the name of the holy church. I Holy Maiden Saintess apologized profusely for the behavior of our subordinates and begged them not to be put to death there."

"calm down, Your Highness Saintess! My sister from the beginning understood that this was an internal matter of the church and had intended to just arrest them. Then how about my brother's invitation to his highness? Are you ready to visit our kingdom?"

"of course I'm willing! Ever since I was a child, I have been very curious about a temple contested by the nine different religions! So, I'll definitely see it!"

After receiving the invitation, Saintess called someone "Cardinal John, prepare the party for my departure to the kingdom of Westeria!"

"immediately I will prepare Your Majesty!"

"alright, then excuse me." And Saintess went from the Holy Hall to the Prayer Room.

…

Meanwhile, in the kingdom of Westeria.

The royal banquet of the capital is being held in the palace hall. All the leading nobles and merchants have also been present here. Actually inviting merchants in a meeting of nobles is taboo in the eyes of many nobles because they assume that the merchants only think about their wealth even though they themselves are not much different.

When Jani came down along with the other royal families they were immediately welcomed with the full honor of all the nobles. After their reception, Jani said "thank you to those of you who are ready to attend, I as the Crown Prince earlier apologized to you for showing you a rather cruel way of setting the rules in this capital!"

Jani discussed a few things and then he said "to clarify the Reformation of Unity that I mentioned this morning, an hour from now all the family heads would attend a limited meeting at the palace to discuss this. But before that, please enjoy tonight's feast! All the cuisine this time is the latest innovation of the kingdom."

After that Jani went around to talk with many nobles and after that he talked about business problems with traders who on that night had agreed a lot of cooperation between Jani and many other traders.