A disaster that everyone expected disappeared after lasting for a month. The huge group of rats spread across the five priests of religion seemed to have never existed. One morning, disappearing without a trace, leaving only countless ruins and flesh and blood on the earth.

Although the Church of Purification of Fire tried its best to cover up the disaster caused by this rat tide, and even blocked the border and prevented people from running out in the disaster area, even so, various related news spread in areas controlled by the Church of Purification of Fire, and even spread to neighboring countries, attracting the attention of neighboring countries.

Although the main habitat of Jerry rats is in the Principality of Ruth, it does not mean that there are no Jerry rat groups in other areas. As a common species in the New World, the Jerry rat group is almost spread throughout the New World, so such rat disasters may occur in other regions and countries.

Moreover, the rat tide this time is completely different from the rat tide that happened before. In this time, the timid Jerry rats no longer just chew on food and spread the plague. They regard humans as hunting prey, including the five priests in the Ruth Duke, with a total population of more than one million. After the abnormal rat disaster, no more than 50,000 survived, and the others were all bitten to death by the Jerry rats and eaten.

After the rat group retreated, the Purification Fire Church formed a rescue team composed of senior church clergy, church knights, rat catchers and hunters gathered from various church priests, and entered the five blocked church priests.

Everything they saw was a tragic scene without exception, with countless corpses everywhere. Not to mention living people, even living animals rarely see them. Everything in front of them made them think of the end of the day that is often mentioned in church books. So the end of January, the word used to describe the rat tide this month, came from their mouths, and eventually became a formal name and recorded in history.

In such a disaster, survivors can rarely be found. Even if they are discovered, the survivors are in a very bad state. Either they are completely scared by the rat tide, or a month of disaster and food shortage completely destroyed their bodies. In short, after these survivors were rescued, half of them died in the hospital bed.

Perhaps this is because the sense of crisis that supports them to survive disappeared the moment the support team arrived, and those who saw their relatives and friends being eaten alive by rats had long lost their belief in living. When the sense of crisis disappeared, their overdrawn bodies completely collapsed.

It was precisely because of seeing countless survivors whose will was destroyed by disaster that the rescue team came to the refuge town of Leo and others. When they saw thousands of survivors living like normal people in the town, the rescue team members were a little doubted whether they had passed through the five priests and came to the border of the priests opposite, which had not encountered rat tides.

When the rescue team asked about the specific situation, they learned that the refuge town was built by a parish church, Fireman and an ordinary Knight Lord. While they were surprised, they also realized that this might be a good thing that would have positive publicity for the Purification of Fire Church.

The sudden rat tide was too wide. One fifth of the land under the control of the Church of Purification was swept into it. Among the five church priests that were affected, two of them were the most important tax sources for the church. In addition, one million people died in just one month. From all aspects, the Church of Purification was already damaged in this church.

The loss of fame alone is not counted, and the loss of reputation is even more immeasurable. Various rumors spread among the people, especially when the Purification Fire Church blocked the borders of the five priests of religion, but did not send people to rescue them, the public's resentment towards the Purification Fire Church was also rapidly accumulating.

Although the Church of Purification Fire uses various methods to suppress this resentment and block various related rumors, it can only control the areas under its jurisdiction, and it has no way to eliminate rumors and rumors in other places abroad.

So now, the reputation of the church of Purification Fire can be said to have fallen to the lowest point in hundreds of years among the people. It is no exaggeration to say that some people have already discussed whether the church should control secular power. Some people have made a fuss by striking the army of heretic countries, saying that the country needs more young people to join in at this time of crisis to help the country get out of danger. Therefore, the troops sent out should be recalled to fill the population gap in the five priests and rebuild the priests.

If it was a month ago, those who said this proposal would definitely be treated as heresy by the Purification Fire and burned to death in front of the church, but now the situation is different. The destructive loss of the five priests this time has affected the normal operation of the Purification Fire Church and the reputation of the Purification Fire. If you don't find something to regain your reputation, the Purification Fire Church may begin to decline due to this disaster.

The priesthood controlled by the Purification Fire a month ago may not oppose the war against heresy, nor do they oppose the recruitment of the people to participate in the expeditionary army, because they all covet the wealth of the Ute Federation. As long as the war is victorious, they can all gain huge benefits from it. But now the situation is different. All priesthoods are beginning to worry about the situation of the priesthood that has been unable to open up the occupied expeditionary army because of this disaster. The people of these priesthoods are worried that the casualties of the expeditionary army will be like the rat tide, and they are worried that they will also become one of the disaster victims. Therefore, their war-weariness has been affected from bottom to top, which has affected the entire priesthood controlled by the Purification Fire Church. Even the Holy Lords and the Church have many people questioned the continued participation in the war against heresy.

Because the various effects caused by this rat tide have had a serious impact on the church's follow-up plan, before the rat tide disappeared, the pope who returned to the Holy Lord from the borders of the five priests did not care about his injuries and directly convened bishops from various dioceses, the powerful and well-known people from the priests of the priests, held a meeting to discuss whether the army that was fighting heresy on the front line should be recalled.

The final result of the discussion was to call some troops back, and then look at the subsequent situation of the Rat Tide before deciding whether all troops should be recalled.

However, this kind of compromise with public opinion did not regain the reputation that the church had lost. Instead, it made some people who were dissatisfied with the church's power see the weakness of the church at this moment and began to make targeted accusations against the church, such as the corruption and depravity that have long existed in church clergy. This time, it was all exposed and even appeared in the official newspapers of some church priests, which aroused greater anti-church sentiment among the people.

The church also made targeted treatments, such as revoking and arresting all clergy who received quality control, and saying that they would conduct public trials on these people soon. In addition, they also exempted a large number of taxes formulated by the church, which restored some reputation to a certain extent, but was not enough to completely stop the decline in reputation.

This time, when the rat tide ended, the Pope organized a rescue team with complete logistics to enter the disaster area as soon as possible, in order to save survivors before other anti-church forces and complete rescue in the disaster area, thereby demonstrating the church's attention to the people in the disaster area.

Therefore, all those who participated in this rescue team were the most loyal clergy and believers in the church. They were very clear about the difficulties the church is facing now, so they tried every means to find opportunities that could help the church gain reputation.

Now the refuge town established by Father Tovia and the Tafman Knights is in perfect agreement with all their requirements. Think about it, in the heart of the rat tide, a priest in the church, regardless of the danger of his life, saved the survivors and together with the devout believers, he built a refuge town. He used the power of the purified fire to resist the crazy rat group, rescued the survivors of the entire Ruth Principality, and thus gained the recognition of the purified fire and became a senior clergyman who mastered higher divine skills.

When this kind of story spreads, it will definitely bring a lot of reputation to the church. Let the church publicize it, and such a church hero born in disaster will appear.

So after learning about the situation in the refuge town, the patriarch who led the team from the Holy Lords' Holy Lords' Church immediately reported the matter to the Pope through the purifying fire, and soon received a further instruction, that is, to take Father Tovia and the Knights of Tafman to the Holy Lords as soon as possible, and all the survivors of the town were then taken to the Holy Lords' Kingdom together. It seems that the Pope should use the stories of these survivors to do something.

"Why don't you want to? Father Tovia." The patriarch told the Pope's reply to Tovia and Tafman, and then asked Tovia, who was frowning slightly.

Compared to Father Tovia who frowned, Tafman was naturally extremely happy. Being able to leave here, go to the Holy Lord's Kingdom, and meet the Pope, was a great honor for him. He was too happy to be too late, so how could he object?

On the other hand, Father Tovia looked worried and asked, "Sir, after I went to the General Church, how would His Majesty the Pope arrange for me, a humble fire-seeing man?"

"As we arrange it like a hero, you will be the hero that the church focuses on." The Patriarch gave an answer immediately, but his answer was too empty and had no substantive content.

"Sir, I'm talking about specific arrangements, such as my position." Torvia did not let the patriarch vaguely, but instead made it clear.

The patriarch quickly answered, saying, "After completing the church's propaganda mission, you should be arranged to enter the Holy Fire Academy and be trained by senior clergy. After completing the training, you will hold a position in a department of the General Church." As he said, he looked at the Tafman Knights beside him and said, "As for the Tafman Knights, you should be trained by the Church's Paladins and serve as an officer in a Paladin team of the General Church."

Judging from the speed of the patriarch's answer, it was obvious that after he had reported what happened here before, the General Temple had already discussed the follow-up arrangements of Father Torvia and the Knights of Tafman, and had a result.

"Where is the Ruth Principality and other disaster-stricken church states around?" Father Tovia asked again.

The patriarch explained tirelessly: "You don't have to worry about this matter. The church will recruit people from other places to fill the gaps in these priests, and will find the blood heirs of these priests, let them inherit the positions of priests, and will also send various talents to assist in the reconstruction of several priests."

Although the Patriarch was just explaining the results of the discussions from the General Temple, when he heard Torvia, he felt a different feeling, as if he was hinting that he obeyed the arrangements honestly and did not need to ask more questions about other things, and it had nothing to do with you.

Although Tovia wanted to yell at the Patriarch's priesthood that he hoped to stay in the Principality of Rus, to continue to rebuild and open up the diocese, he did not say it in the end.

However, there was always a resentment in his heart that did not dissipate, which made him very uncomfortable. So he thought of a way to vent and said to the patriarch: "I am very happy to accept the arrangements made by the church, but before that, I have one more thing to report to you."

The patriarch frowned and asked in a deep voice: "What's the matter?"

"There may be a heresy hidden in our shelter town." Torvia leaned forward and said in a low voice.

"Heaven?" The Patriarch was stunned and said, "Are you sure it is a heretic, not a clergy from other churches?"

During the early period of migration to the New World, there was a period of time when the conflicts between churches were extremely fierce, and they accused each other of clergy and believers of being heresy, and once they were killed without a limit on them as an excuse.

Later, the powerful and senior officials of all civil forces felt that if this situation continued to develop, the new continent would become like the old continent and all religions were mortal enemies of each other. So why should they give up everything in the old continent and take the risk of moving to the old continent to settle down?

So, they forcibly put pressure on the churches that were the most violent at that time, let them sit down and negotiate, and then signed the first set of New World Religion Acts, which directly pointed out that it was not allowed to make any religion recognized by society a heresy, and used this as an excuse to attack them.

In addition, it directly points out what heresy is, such as those who are unbelievers, those who master the power of non-true gods, etc.

The Purification Fire Church's attacks and restrictions on heresy were much stronger than other churches, and it caused some misunderstandings, and purged the clergy of other churches as heresy, and naturally paid some compensation. So now when we hear the heresy, all the relevant clergymen first need to determine whether the other party is a clergy of other churches.
Chapter completed!