
While the Eastern Continent had turned into chaos and was completely subdued by the Church, it was night time on the western continent and the emperor had a very serious face.
He called for an emergency court meeting and imperial court officials and other nobles could see how serious he was.
There are even four tower heads and four former tower heads currently running Sam's network.
He calls everyone important.
"Tonight, I called you this late, because I have a very important matter to tell you.
About a week ago, we found an anomaly in the communication network, I'm pretty sure that the Sam city hub might have noticed this too, and we also sent technicians, he said, but there has been no response from them since.
I sent troops to investigate the matter and the news I got was very serious.
There were some strange people who claimed to be followers of the Church and forcibly turned normal people into cultivators.
Ordinary people turned into Novice overnight and since then the growth rate of their strength has been very high.
They changed twenty-one villages and, in each village, whoever was an eyewitness was deprived of his memory and the rest were forcibly subdued.
Their target age group is ordinary men between fifteen and forty-five years old.
The troops I sent caught them with red hands and stopped their invasion by force. They captured twenty-one heads and brought them back to the Imperial Palace tonight."
He paused and looked around to get a reaction from the court and it seemed like he really got his full attention. They all look serious.
"We used the secret method of the Imperial family to extract information from the soul and fulfill all the data collected through these twenty-one people.
Terrible result.
We found that the main purpose of this church was to turn all ordinary people into these cultivators, but they would not be old cultivators.
The leaders we arrested were all wearing masks and these masked people were considered priests in their system and the person wearing the gold mask would become the High Priest.
Those who repent are called followers. This is their hierarchy"
Arc stopped his speech to let all this sink in.
But someone is talking.
"Your Majesty, what is the purpose of rounding us up late tonight if they are all caught and imprisoned. This sounds like a sect and from what you said, you seem to have conquered the sect, so what is the purpose of this? a meeting?"
"I'll tell you that after I finish explaining about this church.
Although we caught them, this is not their entire population, they just spread slowly because, they are very wary of communication networks, he said, but there was actually another reason for them to tread on this slowly and that was because their original network was actually exterminated by the previous empire."
Everyone exchanged looks. They had no idea that there was this kind of network and they had even eradicated it before.
"Black Water." Everyone is dumbfounded.
"You didn't hear wrong, though, the underworld organization scattered throughout the empire was actually the basic occupation for the church and all the twenty-one people we captured right now were misguided people who escaped the previous crackdown. All of them were Grand stage pinnacle.natural cultivators.
The main purpose of their network is not to gain their hands, power, or just to earn money.
Just imagine, if the Blackwater that had the tissue and power previously tried to deliberately force the commoners to eat these pills and move, the entire empire would be usurped before we know it.
I say this, not because of the soldiers they will gain from this, but what they can do with the army.
The cultivators made with these pills would have certain qualities.
They did not use spiritual energy when attacking, they would only use pure and crude physical strength without the help of spiritual energy.
They do not listen to anyone, to them, anyone who is not a follower or pastor is actually a sinner and according to them every sinner must be cleansed or destroyed.
But this is not the worst thing about them. The main purpose of the entire follower is to act like food.
They were simply a means for priests and high priests to absorb and increase their cultivation at an extremely fast speed.
Just imagine, there are more than one million people who belong to that age group. If everything was converted and absorbed, the result would be disastrous.
There are two things we need to worry about: there are still four people out there and the scale of this church is not only limited in the Western Continent.
From that information, we collected Blackwater belonging to an organization formed with three other underworld networks around the world.
And they all did the same, lucky for us Blackwater has been subverted, but other countries are not so lucky, he said, so there is reason for me to believe that there is already a war going on in another country.
But one thing we're not sure about is, from one of their memories, the organization seemed to have another boss. They're not sure about that.
If there really is another boss and someone controls them to do all this, then stopping them would be our least concern, we have to find out who the boss is and find a way to stop his actions completely.
If there's a backup plan, then we're fucked."
He remained silent after finishing his speech. The crowd was also silent and slowly digesting the information.
This was too much to accept, they actually felt lucky that Blackwater was missing and also the presence of the network was a huge barrier to the Church.
None of them thought that the emperor was a momentary nonsense, the reason being that, Arc was only inviting that took it seriously. There would always be arrogant characters in any serious situation, so he decided to completely avoid their presence.
"What does His Majesty want to do?"
Arc was waiting for this question, he cleared his throat and started giving his orders.
"From now on, enable emergency line monitoring of communication networks. Enter the words of the church, followers, priests, guides, faith, justice, freedom, and truth. Listen to all these calls and determine their location each time they speak.
Declare siege orders in all towns and villages. No one is allowed to leave or enter any city or village.
Search for the remains of churches and their followers, their main feature is the strange behavior of spiritual energy around them, there will be a kind of scarcity of spiritual energy around them.
There are still four priests, and this situation will continue until the four priests are arrested, but do not mention the word church, or priest, or priest, or any other related word when executing this.
Create checkpoints and temporary camps at each entrance of the village or town. I want everyone checked.
Head of the Tower, you may not be under my jurisdiction, but I ask for your cooperation in these difficult times, he said, please do the same type of search with your tower and report to me if you find anyone associated with this."
He then turned towards the former head of the tower in charge of the network and said.
"I hope you stop the conflict for now and manage the network, the network is very tight and difficult to penetrate but also difficult to know after being penetrated and damaged.
So, I ask you to browse the network and find out if there are people involved in it.
I will head to the thunder god temple, first thing tomorrow morning and I will talk about this situation to the head of the thunder god temple and see if he will react to this.
I just hope he can believe this and take action on this.
If he doesn't, and this turns into a global crisis, we need to find a way to create a safe haven for the people of our kingdom.
So, our priority is to kill the traces of the church within our kingdom and next is to create the necessary measure of security."