Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 711 Travis's Overly Leaning Thoughts

The Tower Lord began building that mysterious base when the gods could no longer descend to the mortal realm.

The Lord of Storms will surely find him, but he can't afford to waste his avatar, which he barely managed to leave on the earth, if the Lord of the Tower doesn't reach into his pocket.

All the gods' schemes were ultimately aimed at him to clean up the mess!
Furthermore, although the Tower Lord's schemes are still as insidious and unethical as ever, they are all at the level of the mundane world... Even if he were to personally descend and command, given the limits of his physical abilities, a fully-staffed max-level professional could easily handle him.

Moreover, his main focus is on scheming and plotting.

In the eyes of the gods, even without the Lord of the Tower, humanity's scheming against each other has never ceased.

It's not a big deal if there's one more tower.

The gods, who had always wanted to make use of his power, naturally chose to temporarily ignore that base.

But for the Church of the Gods and several powerful nations, the Church of the Tower remains an eternal enemy... at least on the surface.

There's no way around it; the High Tower Church provokes people indiscriminately, only caring about whether they can take action, regardless of the cause and effect, or whose territory it is.

The stronger they are, the more excited they become.

Therefore, even if this evil god church cannot be completely eradicated, many powerful forces that have lost face and lives because of the Tower Church's conspiracy will want to deal a heavy blow to that base again... Establishing virtue and prestige is the most proficient method of these powerful forces.

Being constantly slapped in the face by the same force without being able to retaliate is absolutely intolerable to these powerful forces, especially the church.

Since the gods wouldn't do anything proactively, and they couldn't find the location of the base or a way to remove the trap, they could only remain calm.

Travis was one of them; his calmness stemmed entirely from his own powerlessness, not from a genuine belief that the Tower Church was any good.

Although he had cooperated with Pat of the Tower Church, he believed in Pat's unwavering loyalty to the Gezar family, rather than in Pat's adherence to his own principles, which he had once met and admired.

Furthermore, Lowry's trust in Pat made him feel something... different.

If it were someone else, he would never have agreed to such a high-level collaboration with them simply for convenience. Even if they exchanged some information, Travis wouldn't fully believe it... He would have to verify it repeatedly with his own people.

As for letting people infiltrate the Tower Church, that is indeed easier than the Ice Church.

Ice cultists often suddenly stop behaving like humans for a period of time.

It's not just those who raise ice dogs.

To experience firsthand what it means to be icy cold and chilled to the bone, they would periodically go to live in the coldest part of the ice field for a while... alone, without a fire.

Although Travis believed his spies had a noble will and unwavering determination... it was really too much to ask them to do this when the Ice Church did not pose a threat to the safety of the Northern Kingdom and was even subtly avoiding the issue.

What high salary or benefits? He can only enjoy them if he's alive.

Even if there are people who are willing to endure hardship for their families, they can't live that kind of savage life year after year... Loneliness makes people think too much.

Those Ice Believers who can be persuaded by his threats and inducements are not of a very high level.

The Ice Cultists... in the later stages, their connection with the Supreme God became too deep.

Although the Lord of Ice was easy to deal with, at that time, he still had the Rain Goddess in his mind who could even command the Ice Dog King!
This person just has a problem due to an extreme mentality and a particularly bad temperament. She has no respect for anything, including herself, but she is actually smarter than the Lord of Ice.

But things are different on the other side of the tower.

In order to leave his mark everywhere, the Lord of the Tower often picks up people on a whim.

Anise and Pat, along with the Gezars, are not the only victims of the Church of Orthodoxy he will save.

He would also go to rescue those persecuted by the nobles.

To some extent, ordinary people have always had a complicated view of the Tower Church... Although they don't usually want a Tower believer by their side, they hope that when they are hurt, they can get the Tower Lord's favor as quickly as possible.

This is also the reason why many adventurer factions have always had an ambiguous attitude towards the High Tower Church.

How many of those truly great adventurers, not those arranged by the major powers, are actually lucky enough to have more luck and opportunity than talent?
They all chose the seemingly free path of adventure because of power struggles, family conflicts, or even dissatisfaction with certain forces.

They knew the Tower Lord had ill intentions, but they also hoped for such a troublemaker to exist... to save himself, who might not have any talent.

But precisely because of the Tower Church's behavior, Travis's hostility towards this cult was far greater than that towards the Ice Church.

This hostility and defensiveness stems from the difference in the main deities of the two cults.

Although the Lord of Ice is also ruthless and evil, and completely disregards the rules, his actions clearly have only one goal: to make himself stronger.

The Lord of Ice is willing to sacrifice everything he can to become stronger.

Things like saving face are not even in his consideration.

Just look at the behavior of the Ice Cultists.

They are bad, simply bad.

They commit murder, arson, and all sorts of evil deeds, but that is still just doing evil.

If Ice Cultists cause trouble near my home, I can just kill them all. But the Tower Church is different.

They're everywhere, meddlesome in everything.

In many cases, people participate simply to get involved, without caring about the outcome.

As one of the two great evil gods who were the only ones left behind by the will of the world in those years, the Tower's reputation did not need to be promoted by him.

When reputable churches pray, they will bring up these two things to warn believers to stay away from the embodiment of evil.

Anyway, there aren't many people in this world who can't survive simply because of poverty.

They are mostly naturally evil people, or pitiful people forced into this situation.

No country will sympathize with or pity those who exert pressure and are killed by the pitiful, nor will it seek to "uphold justice" for them.

After all, the person who fights back will definitely publicize why they did it.

It wasn't for justice, but for the sake of pride.

When something like this happens, people usually just quickly divide up the guy's assets and keep quiet for a while, never doing the same thing as the victim... lest they get burned.

As for being hunted down for joining a cult and killing countless people... the perpetrators are usually major churches.

Their reasoning was simply because it was a cult, not whether or not killing was justified.

Unless someone indiscriminately kills innocent people, which is an unforgivable crime, even adventurers would not tolerate such a person appearing in public.

Otherwise, Pat and Anise wouldn't have left so calmly, and even the Storm Nobles wouldn't have tried to do anything to them.

Once the world's will has fixed the laws on some kind of absolute justice, humanity will naturally develop in that direction.

Churches that don't need to worry about poor people being lured away by cults in their search for food are naturally not afraid to portray evil cults as ruthless murderers who deserve to die.

Therefore, the position of the evil god of the tower and the ice is actually very secure.

He doesn't need to show off everywhere.

If the purpose is to increase one's divine power, then the Lord of the Tower should, like the Lord of Ice, establish strongholds everywhere, starting from a single point and gradually expanding, and then rely on them to consolidate his divine authority... rather than appearing evil.

Travis always felt that the Lord of the Tower was not unaware of the danger he faced, and that he must have some special plan.

The gods want to use him, and perhaps he also wants to use the gods—that's a mindset he has!

Therefore, Travis was always eager to know how to break through the outer defenses of the Tower base.

However, this time, he did have some inspiration.

Lowry was able to enter the Ice Lord's dimensional space so easily, wasn't it because the power he used originally belonged to the Ice Lord?

Travis suddenly asked thoughtfully, "Lowry, shouldn't you change the energy source of your castle later?"

"Huh?" Lowry, whose name was called, snapped back to reality, not understanding how the topic had suddenly turned to him, and hurriedly replied, "Why?"

The dimensional space is still there, and the Cold Spring hasn't dried up!

“But isn’t that the power of the Lord of Ice?” Travis asked in a low voice. “Doesn’t this mean your castle is entirely under his control?”

“Oh… the knight’s way of thinking… is so straightforward?” Lori smiled helplessly. “An energy pool is an energy pool. If it comes out of the energy pipe, that’s an accident.”

No mage could allow their energy channels to be so incomplete.

He shook his head at Travis's still seemingly confused face: "To put it simply, my pipes can only withstand so much pressure."

If the Lord of Ice really wanted to do something from there, the pipes would explode immediately.

This is a defensive measure that every mage leaves in the pipes, regardless of how sturdy the pipes themselves are.

Elemental beings can also transform themselves into elemental energy!
If we're not prepared... who knows what might get into the house!

Travis sighed, seemingly with regret.

Lowry narrowed his eyes, making sure he didn't feel anything, so this guy probably wasn't plotting against him.

With his level of perception, at such close range, even if a god were standing here pondering him, Lowry would be able to sense it.

Someone like Travis, who can't even control his outward energy and emotional reactions, is even less likely to escape his perception.

He couldn't even hide it from Armies.

Lowry glanced at Arms's slightly darting eyes, confirming that the guy was also frantically recalling the conversation, trying to find out why Travis had suddenly said that.

Almes, who likes to get to the bottom of everything, probably finds Travis, a guy whose inspirations are even more nonsensical than a husky's next move, the most annoying.

(End of this chapter)