The Brotherhood Princes understood that in the present situation, only the Prince of Bruch could turn them around, and unanimously agreed that the Prince of Bruch would be the new chairman.

After a brief enthronement ceremony, Prince Giovanni of the Greedy Clan asked about his next steps.

"Now I have to achieve the most basic survival, the Fallen Race and the killing are destroyed, the St. Mangs of Eastern Europe and the Anglican Church of the United States are no longer threatened, and the Church will definitely launch a counterattack against us." We must unite to defeat the people of the church before we can compete with the demons and reclaim the gate of time and space. ”

As it turned out, Bruch's guess was completely correct. For thousands of years, the Church of the Father and the Brotherhood have been in constant confrontation, and the two sides were at first evenly matched in the battles between you and me, but since the Renaissance, with the development of technology, the Church has gradually declined in the economic, military, and political fields, and has become less and less a rival to the Brotherhood.

Especially after World War II, it could only rely on the church to implement strategic defense, and there was no power to counterattack.

Now that the strength of the Brotherhood has been damaged and more than half of the thirteen families have been wiped out, Pope Richelieu realized that the opportunity for a counterattack had come, and issued a papal decree to the Anglican Church of the United States, the Holy Yao Society of Brazil, the Holy Monk Society of Eastern Europe, the Shengming Society of South Africa, and the Holy Word Society of Australia, requiring the five branches to send elite forces to assemble in the Vatican within 10 days to fight the Brotherhood head-on.

The vampire families within the evangelistic range of these five church branches have been wiped out, and each branch can draw at least more than 200 masters, with a total number of more than 1,000 people.

In addition, the Pope ordered the British Church of the Holy Fathers, the German Templars, the Italian Celestial Order, the Nordic Holy Spirit Order, and the French Holy Guild to harass vampire families in the diocese in order to disturb the rear of the Brotherhood.

According to the Pope's plan, the first thing they wanted to eradicate was the ruthless people stationed in Italy, but the Church army had been clearing for a month and found nothing, the ruthless people were nowhere to be found, the major strongholds were empty, and the vampires did not know where to go.

Pope Richelieu immediately convened a meeting of his staff to discuss the next plan of action.

The 86-year-old Richelieu looked no more than fifty years old, his curly brown hair was raised high by the palace, his nobility was set off by a blue silk robe studded with gold thread, and his red cloak was windless, making him look not angry and arrogant. He sat at the top of the auditorium of the Church of San Raphael, glared angrily at Bishop Sadat of the Holy Celestial Church of Italy, who was kneeling under the high platform, and questioned: "Why are the more than 2,000 vampires of the Ruthless Clan gone?"

Sadat broke out in a cold sweat and even said sorry, "They are still there for a few days, and I don't know what magic they used, and they disappeared all at once?"

Richeleu said in his heart: "Where there is magic that has disappeared, it is clear that Sadat has not acted. He pointed at Sadat with a look of hatred that could not be made of steel, "You! You are still a local bishop." "For decades, in the process of fighting vampires, the Church of the Heavenly Father has always been at a disadvantage, and its morale has fallen to the bottom, so that the clergy, including many high-ranking people, have the idea of breaking the jar and breaking it, and do not delve into how to achieve the final victory in the battle between good and evil. Bishop Sadat is one of them.

He glanced at Sadat fiercely and said loudly: "Someone dragged him out and cut him down." ”

When the bishops heard this, they hurriedly begged for mercy for him, and Bishop Pasha of the Holy Light Society, an old friend of Chongxu, came out and said: "Your Majesty's men are merciful, and it is their cunning that the vampires have disappeared, and Sadat is not to blame." ”

Bishop Tordano of the Church of the Holy Way of Australia, a middle-aged man who spoke in an urn, said: "Yes, Your Majesty!

Bishop Francis of the Anglican Communion said: "Your Majesty, the war is imminent, and it is time to employ people. At this time, we can't cut off our arms. ”

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Under the joint persuasion of several bishops, the Pope finally dismissed the idea of killing chickens and monkeys and removing Sadat's head, saying: "Okay, then let you be guilty of meritorious service." Then he asked, "Where do you see the ruthless gone?"

Bishop Sadat hastened to atone for his sins and preemptively replied, "They must have known about our actions and did not dare to confront us head-on, so they went to France or Germany." ”

His answer was agreed by everyone present, but everyone's attitude was decidedly different.

The optimistic faction felt that the magnitude of the Cult of Heavenly Father's rally had terrified the vampires, who had abandoned Italy, which had been in business for thousands of years, and fled out of fear.

The intellectuals, represented by Francis and Pasha, believed that the vampires did not succumb so easily, and that they withdrew not out of fear but out of strategic retreat in the face of the outnumbered Papal army.

The two very different attitudes led to two different voices when discussing their next plan of action, with the former advocating a major attack to eliminate the Brotherhood within a year.

Francis suggested that the battle should be steady, step by step, using superior forces to attack Germany first, and at the same time establish an offensive and defensive alliance with the Eastern Earth Demons, invite the demons to attack Britain, and attack France from east to west after the initial goal is achieved.

Francis boasted of being well-planned, and if the Pope followed his strategy, the Brotherhood would one day be wiped out. To his surprise, however, Pope Richelieu ignored his advice and chose to embrace the views of the radicals – to go on the offensive.

Richelieu made this choice for several reasons:

First, he, like the vast majority of church executives, is highly optimistic about the current situation. Seven of the thirteen families of the Brotherhood have been folded, and only six princes remain, and the human, material, and financial resources have never been lower, and the strength of the church is twice as high as theirs, so it is a good time to fight to the death.

Second, over the past few hundred years, the Church of the Father has won fewer victories and lost more in the battle against vampires, and the morale of the church is extremely low, and a big victory is urgently needed to lift everyone's spirits. This requires him to find a fighter plane as soon as possible and fight the Brotherhood to the death.

In the end, although Francis and Pasha said a lot of good things about Chongxu, stating the good deeds and good deeds that Chongxu had done for more than a year, as well as the contributions they had made in the fight against the Brotherhood, Richelieu believed that the devil was a demon after all, and was synonymous with evil. He didn't want to have anything to do with these evil creatures, and he couldn't possibly cooperate with them.

Because of these thoughts, Richelieu did not hesitate to veto Francis's proposal, heeded the advice of Bishop Tordano of the Australian Holy Order, and went to war in an all-out way.