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Chapter 116 Extra - The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, the Rise of the Holy See of Light
At the end of the Calendar of Light, although the top leaders of the entire Holy See of Light were almost wiped out, it was only almost, not completely wiped out, because not all the staff of the Holy See stayed in the church at that time, some were outside.

The part of the Holy See of Light staff who went out.

Naturally, he is the last survivor of the Holy See of Light.

At that time, Ding Shui and the others were busy destroying the formation and had no time to deal with them. Even after destroying the formation, they established the Elemental Church.

There has been no explicit demand to wipe them out.

However, the remaining members of the Church of Light still suffered heavy losses during this period. It was not Ding Shui who attacked them, but the nobles. As the remnants of the Church of Light, they were naturally qualified to take over the legacy of the Church of Light, at least until the victors like Ding Shui made a clear claim.

At that time, Ding Shui and the others did not ask for it immediately.

The first to develop greed were the nobles.

If one wanted to steal someone else's property, the best way was, of course, to kill the entire family, ensuring no one could seek revenge or claim it in the future. Based on this, the greedy nobles quickly began to eliminate the remaining clergy of the Church of Light and seize its assets.

At first, the remaining clergy of the Church of Light never thought that the nobles would attack them. Some even asked the nobles for help. By the time they reacted, it was too late. The group of people who were already few in number suffered heavy losses again. Only a very small number of people took away some gold, silver and jewelry and fled overseas to survive temporarily.

I live entirely on the support of faith and belief.

So practically speaking, the Church of Elements founded by Ding Shui and others later avenged some of their revenge. After all, those nobles who were killed as a warning to others or as a sting operation all participated in the suppression of the remaining clergy of the Church of Light at that time, and their efforts were the most intensive.

Because if the force is not strong enough.

They are not qualified to obtain so many assets of the Holy See of Light, and it is impossible for them to be used as a warning to others or as a sting operation.

If you only took a few acres of land.

Lilith and the others don't have time to target them specifically.

For nearly eight hundred years thereafter, the remaining members of the Holy See of Light could only survive in some small islands or small countries outside the Western Continent, or in other countries.

Preach secretly and survive quietly.

Their attitude was so mild that they didn't even dare to consider any power gains. Some of the timid ones even changed their names directly, from the name of the Holy See of Light to the name of the God of Light.

Anyway, it’s enough as long as they know it in their hearts.

I think the God of Light will forgive them.

Thanks to this low-key tenacity, some of them eventually died out, but some took root and survived, and some even grew and prospered over the past eight hundred years, and tried to return to the Western Continent, but only after several failed attempts and confirmation that the witches were real.

They temporarily abandoned the plan.

After all, they can't contact the God of Light they believe in, nor do they have any extraordinary abilities. They rely entirely on verbal deception and storytelling to spread their faith. They can never be the opponent of the Elemental Church. Isn't it seeking death if they don't give up?
However, they did not give up and continued to try various ways to contact the God of Light they believed in.

While secretly understanding the analysis of the elements of the Church.

At the same time, he gave up his hatred and united with many nobles who were dissatisfied with the Elemental Church's overly domineering behavior, not giving any face to their noble officials, and even repeatedly hanging criminals among them.

Plan a plan to deal with the Elemental Church.

Although he has been failing continuously, his experience has been increasing. At the same time, he has basically figured out that many secrets of the Elemental Church are known only to the Pope. Once the Pope dies without leaving any inheritance, the Elemental Church will inevitably be severely damaged, even if it will not disappear immediately.

That will also make us lose our greatest confidence and support.

Based on this, the Church of Light and the noble bureaucrats planned many assassination attacks specifically targeting the Pope of the Church of Elements. Even though every failure would lead to a purge and heavy losses, they still enjoyed doing it.

Because they really don't want to live this kind of depressing life anymore, which is bound by rules and regulations.

A day when we have to be polite to the common people.

Better to die.

Later, for their own safety and to counter the Elemental Church, many nobles even withdrew their main family branches from the Western Continent and ventured elsewhere, ushering in the Age of Exploration. Only a small number of people remained in the Western Continent to plot various conspiracies against the Elemental Church, and it wasn't until over three hundred years ago that they found some successful direction.

They were really stubborn. It was not until three hundred years ago that they began to think about showing kindness to ordinary people and winning their hearts.

To be precise, it is to show favor to some ordinary people.

Incite them to rebellion.

The Elemental Church, with its vast civilian population to care for, coupled with the principle of fairness and relatively limited income, lacked sufficient supplies, making it impossible to provide them with particularly good treatment. Even after many years, they could only ensure that no one starved to death and that most people were well fed in years of good harvest.

And we can have a meat meal during festivals.

You know, although the agricultural technology of the Western Continent is developing, because Dingshui did not leave behind any particularly advanced technology, the overall development level is limited, but the population growth is... It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that it is infinite, but after a few hundred years, it has increased tenfold, and the total population of the Western Continent has exceeded one billion.

Three hundred years ago, the number exceeded one billion.

Even so, the Elemental Church is still trying to curb population growth and dares not relax relevant policies. Once the relevant policies are relaxed, they dare not imagine how much the population will grow and they simply cannot support so many people.

As for why the population has grown so much?
Of course it’s also because of the Elemental Church!

How could the population not grow when everyone is basically well fed, and when illnesses can be treated with various treatments, and living to eighty is not a problem?
The first hundred years of the Elemental Church were relatively relaxed, with little pressure. In the years that followed, the pressure was immense. The population continued to grow, and they couldn't follow the example of the Church of Light, spreading plagues, leading wars, and appropriately reducing the population. So, they could only desperately seek more land and food for the newly increased population, to ensure they wouldn't starve to death!
But land is limited.

To acquire more land, one had to either go out and search for it, or go a step further and seize it from the nobles. The Church of Elements, however, chose a two-pronged approach: exploring more unclaimed land while simultaneously searching for faults among the nobles and officials.

Try every possible means to get the land from them.

At the same time, they are also improving agricultural technology and using wood-attribute witchcraft to maximize crop yields and shorten crop maturity time and pests and diseases.

It can be said that the Elemental Church has been around for nearly six hundred years.

They are all busy ensuring that ordinary people do not starve to death.

But some people may think these achievements are great at the beginning. However, as time goes by, as many people, generation after generation, can have enough to eat and will not starve to death, they will not be satisfied with this and think that it is because the Church of Elements controls the resources that they can actually live a better life.

Of course, the Elemental Church at that time did have some class rigidity. Often, witches could only come from witch families. Ordinary civilians who wanted to be promoted in the Elemental Church or become new witches had to work ten, even a hundred times harder than the descendants of witch families. This did cause dissatisfaction among many. However, it was difficult for a faction to develop for hundreds of years without this kind of situation, unless a certain pope made drastic changes and wiped out everyone from top to bottom.

Otherwise, there is no way to solve this problem.

Even if it is resolved, it will still be the same in a few years.

The advantage is that ensuring that no one starves to death has always been the core purpose of the Elemental Church. No pope dares to watch a large number of civilians starve to death.

Even if there is some dissatisfaction, the overall situation is still stable and there will be no peasant uprisings.

Around this time, some nobles began to seek benefits for favored commoners, even allowing some to attend the noble schools they founded. They also supported these commoners, using them to infiltrate the Elemental Church without requiring them to do anything, and even paid them money to ensure they worked hard and climbed the ladder to avoid being caught with corruption and dismissed.

The infiltration probably lasted for more than a hundred years.

During these hundred years, those nobles and the Church of Light were very stable and well-behaved, and they did nothing wrong. This not only relaxed the vigilance of the entire Elemental Church, but also made it easier for personnel to infiltrate. As a result, they succeeded.

During the reign of the 43rd Pope of the Elements, unrest broke out within the Elemental Church. The nobles and the Church of Light, willing to expose all their hidden agents, successfully assassinated the 43rd Pope. He died before he could choose a successor and complete the relevant inheritance, thus completely interrupting the witch inheritance.

The entire Elemental Church fell into chaos because only the Elemental Pope knew how to transform new witches.

The Elemental Pope was suddenly assassinated.

No one will know it anymore.

Afterwards, the entire Elemental Church fell into chaos and out of control. Some people were fighting for power and wanted to become the new Pope, some were trying hard to study how to create new witches, and some were just going with the flow.

Before this, there were actually witches who were secretly researching in private, but they didn't dare to do it openly because if they did, it would be stealing the power of the Pope. Now that the Pope is dead and the technology has been lost, there is naturally no need to worry about anything when conducting research.

Whoever can figure it out.

It is natural for him to become the new Pope. It is definitely more legitimate than directly seizing the position of Pope.

The Elemental Church was in such disarray that it could no longer provide comprehensive disaster relief as before, nor could it suppress the kings, nobles, and bureaucrats of various countries. As a result, the entire Western Continent fell into chaos. Some countries went to war, and disasters struck in other places, resulting in massive casualties, and then plagues and other diseases.

As the saying goes, a grain of rice is a blessing, a peck of rice is resentful.

Those who had enjoyed the relief benefits of the Elemental Church for so many years now directly complained and cursed the Elemental Church, and even took the opportunity to seize the Elemental Church's assets.

This directly caused many witches to feel disheartened, and also caused some witches to become mentally unbalanced and start killing people.

Think about it, there is a poor man who comes to your house for dinner every day, and you give him food every day. But something happened at home in recent days, and it was a mess. You were too busy to take care of it, so you didn’t give him any food. As a result, he pointed at your nose and cursed at you, and even wanted to overturn the table and smash your house. Who can stand this and who can not be angry?
In a society ruled by law, where there is no force, perhaps one can only endure it, or at most report the case, ask for mediation, or even post it online and let people cyberbully them.

But at this time, the witches were not yet extinct!
It's just that the method of converting new witches has been lost.

Nothing happened to the original witches.

Some people with good tempers may be able to endure it reluctantly, or just give them a little lesson, but some people with bad tempers have an unbalanced mentality. In the words of the Eastern Continent, they will go crazy and start a killing spree. It is not impossible for them to happen.

After all this, the situation undoubtedly became more chaotic. Some people who wanted to maintain the rules of the Elemental Church had to hunt down the witches. As a result, the original internal chaos turned directly into a real war.

The entire Western Continent was in chaos.

At this time, the Church of Light and the nobles of course began to do good deeds secretly and discredit the Church of Elements, but they did not dare to go too far because they knew very well that the witches were not all dead yet.

So just do it secretly.

Of course, these are what they did openly. What they did more in private was trying to seize more land and assets. Some people, and even some villages, were completely wiped out. The remaining land and other assets were naturally taken by the nobles and the Holy See of Light. They used to do this kind of thing frequently.

Now, although it has been hundreds of years, nearly a thousand years
But it does not prevent them from being proficient.

Just need to keep a low profile.

However, they did not keep a low profile for too long. Sixty years later, there were no witches left from the Church of Elements. At the same time, due to the chaos in recent years, not only did they suffer heavy losses in assets, but their reputation and prestige among the people also fell to the lowest point in a thousand years.

At this time, the Holy See of Light finally plucked up the courage to announce the restoration of its orthodoxy, and with the support of the nobles, quickly came out to compete with the Holy See of Elements.

If the Elemental Church had reacted in time at this time.

If we reverse our foreign policy.

I can't say anything about the others, but there should be no problem in competing with the Holy See of Light. After all, the foundation accumulated over nearly a thousand years will not be so easy to consume.

However, the Elemental Church clearly failed to grasp the pulse of the times. While the Light Church had already begun to embrace technology and engage in technological research with the nobles to promote technological progress, they were still figuring out how to create new witches and subsequently failed to revise the Elemental Codex in a timely manner. In short, their situation was a complete mess.

The kind that will get worse and worse in the future.

After entering the information age, the Elemental Church suffered a continuous setback. In terms of propaganda, it was no match for the combined forces of the Light Church and the nobles.

In addition, the assets are not enough to support large-scale charity.

The promised healing within the canon was unattainable, and the kings of various nations had long ago revoked their right to oversee trials. The decline of the Church of the Elements was palpable. To maintain their original purpose, they were even forced to sell off assets to maintain certain charitable activities, and were mocked for their pretense of wealth.

Some time ago, the Holy See of Light directly announced that it could still avenge a thousand years of hatred and launch a holy war against the entire Holy See of Elements. But at this time, how could the Holy See of Elements be a match for the resurgent Holy See of Light?

In order to preserve the heritage and avoid complete extinction.

The current Pope of the Elemental Church could only quickly contact all the senior officials, take all the resources of the Elemental Church that were still convenient to take away, and secretly escape to the Eastern Continent.

Hoping to seek protection and ensure its inheritance and development.

Fortunately, the Eastern Continent is aware of the past history of the Holy See of Elements, and the Holy See of Elements has also provided assistance to the Eastern Continent several times in the past thousand years.

Although we were no longer able to provide assistance later.

But I never kick someone when they are down.

Based on these factors, the core countries of the Eastern Continent discussed it and finally accepted and granted protection.