They knew that William's actions before he made a thorough statement were nothing more than fighting for the greater good.

They also praised William's intellect, and immediately after accepting the order of the Lordlands, he showed his devotion to the Church.

Pope Uban II immediately made a public statement that the visit of the devout believers of the Church, the favorite back of the Pope, the best friend of the monks and the legitimate ruler of the Kingdom of Lorique, King William, was of course very welcome.

William and the Church were very dissatisfied with this song, and the King Leonac of the Kingdom of Astra also approved the Church's paladin plan at this time.

The Paladin Project was originally proposed by the Church to the Kingdom of Astra, because the Kingdom of Astra is a country of knights in the Holy Religion world, and there is a strong knightly atmosphere in the country, as well as powerful knights and excellent systems.

The Church wants to rely on the strong knightly base of the Kingdom of Astra to train more knights belonging to the Church, although they are not comparable to the Templars in terms of combat effectiveness and elite, and the number will be more.

There are only a few Knights Templar now, but the number of 2,000 is almost the smallest number of knights in the Holy Church world, whether it is William's Iron Cross Knights or the Lion Knights and Sunshine Knights of the Rhoderan Empire, or the Holy Grail Knights of the Kingdom of Astra, and the Ironclad Paladins of the Gilnia Empire that are not under the jurisdiction of the Church, these knights surpass the Templars in terms of the number of knights, and the quality is not bad.

It can almost be said that the Knights Templar had the smallest number of people, except for the lesser-known minor knights on the mainland.

This inevitably makes the church a little embarrassed, don't look at the power they have in their hands, but that's only for countries that are not too strong.

The strength in the hands of the church is not too strong for the original Tskema Kingdom, at least the original Tskema Kingdom has always dared to resist the church.

And now the kingdom of Lorik controlled by William is not afraid of the power in the hands of the church, and even the church is best at inciting the people, and there is no market in the kingdom of Lorik.

William is not only committed to improving the economic level and quality of life of the people, but also does enough work on their thinking.

Now the citizens of the kingdom of Lorik have almost completed the idea of a king and a state, and even the inhabitants of the Denlenburg and Issamdenburg regions regard William as their only admirer.

The only way for the Church to deal with powerful nations is their appeal, if they excommunicate a king, or if they call on other nations and their inhabitants to wage holy war.

This is the main means of the Church against other countries, and in addition to this, the Church has a very great advantage.

That's the wealth accumulated over the centuries, the tithes that have to be paid in so many countries, the issuance of indulgences, the merchants controlled by the church, and the nobility under the control of the church, all of which can bring huge income to the church, and what a terrible wealth over the years.

If the church wanted to, they could even amass hundreds of thousands of mercenaries with money alone.

But that was their reserve, and they didn't dare to use it until they had to.

Of course, the church also hopes that it can have the strength to casually attack the country that offends the church, but the other party does not dare to resist.

Therefore, the Paladin Project came into being, and the knightly culture and system of the Kingdom of Astra were so perfect that they trained many qualified knights, but they could not get their own fiefdoms and could not join the Holy Grail Knights.

As a result, many qualified knights in the kingdom of Astra became wandering knights, and the church, which was eager to form a stronger army, turned its mind to the knights of the kingdom of Astra.

However, King Leonac has always hesitated, if the strength of the church is expanded like that, even the kingdom of Astra may be affected somewhat, and the church may become less important to the kingdom of Astra because of the strengthening of its strength.

Recently, however, the kingdom of Astra was engaged in a territorial dispute with one of its neighbors, who had joined forces with another nation against the kingdom of Astra and sent emissaries to the church to ask for the church's ruling.

Although this territorial dispute has not been right and who is wrong for a long time, if a fair ruling is really to be made, it will certainly be a long time.

However, because this was the time when the church and the Rodran Empire, the number one power on the continent, were facing off, the church quickly replied in order to find a strong ally for itself, and was still very biased towards the ruling of the kingdom of Astra.

The kingdom of Astra also gained a large territory for this, and King Leonac immediately announced that he would meet the Pope with William in return.

In this way, the power of the Pope's side was greatly strengthened, and the directly oppressed Rodland Empire submitted to the Church.

and repudiated the count, who was determined to avenge his son, back to his domain, and the Bloody Emperor Greine wrote a letter apologizing to the Pope and paying a sum of indemnity.

But Pope Uban II was not satisfied, and he declared that the Rodran Empire was so offensive to the Church because there were too many wizards and witches in the country, which plunged the Rodran Empire into darkness.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the Lordland Empire to be so offensive to the Church, so the capture of witches and wizards in the country became an indispensable activity.

The Pope did not do this with good intentions, but with a bad stomach, and every time the Church hunted witches, he sent a large number of monks to accompany him.

In this way, they could extort money from their own nobles or fukuto, and if they did not accept the extortion from the church, then they would be recognized as witches by the monks and then take their wealth for themselves.

Those convicted of witches and wizards were also burned at the stake, a wide-ranging activity.

The monks can even slander many people who have been seduced by witches and betrayed the Father in their hearts.

This would have been a catastrophe for the Empire, and the wealth of the country would inevitably be extorted, and commercial and agricultural activities would be affected.

This is also a kind of punishment of the Church for the Lordland Empire, but the Church will not weaken them too much, after all, there is still a foreign existence.

The kingdom of Arisera was still under the invasion of the Piars in the east, and the powerful offensive of the Khagisai dynasty had been going on for several years, which seriously depleted the kingdom of Arisala.

As the teacher of Bedwin IV, Uban II certainly hoped to be able to reinforce him, in fact, the Church's Liwei this time also had the intention of integrating the Holy Religious State.

Let the nations of the Holy Church world unite to support the Kingdom of Arisella.