Chapter 1353: The Fearless in the Vortex

The size of Piethorn is not as large as that of Noxus, Demacia, etc., and as a city-state, Piltover is very limited in terms of territory and size.

But Piltover's political environment is complex enough in this small territory that it can be described as a small city that is not simple given the level of control in Piltover's government.

As a prophet of the Void, Marzaha has been engaged in underground activities for a long time - in order to welcome the arrival of the Void, he has traveled deep into the desert of Shurima to communicate with the village nobils, he has also spoken under a pseudonym at the banquet of the nobility in Noxus, and even once traveled to Demacia as an art visitor, and he has learned more about the customs of this country.

It can be said that Marzaha's life experience is very rich.

These rich life experiences allow Marzaha to quickly find an entry point wherever he goes, and quickly form a new force for his own use.

But because of the peculiarities of Piltover, Marzaha was careless this time - he saw Pitz as a large city, but in fact, if you want to mix it up, you have to think of the city-state as a country!

Unaware of the complexity of the political environment in Picheng, Marzaha, after accepting the award, focused on the cultivation of Kogas - because only Marzaha knew about Kogath, he was not worried about secrecy at all, and he knew very well that except for Kogath, the entire Order, the whole Order, which was too normal to be normal, was a speculative religion.

In this way, Marzaha, who did not realize that he had been involved in the whirlpool of political struggle, was ruthlessly attacked by the opposition from the Supreme Council while he was trying his best to train Kogas.

The first is a large number of "routine checks".

The only thing Oriana has at her disposal now is the forces of the Leather City Police Department and the Garrison, and many other departments throughout Piltover are currently looking for opportunities to contradict her, and the Religious Council is one of them.

Although Orianna is personally in charge of the implementation of the religious management plan, which is almost a new one, the religious committee has not been canceled!

Originally, the religious council was neutral in the political struggle, and for them, there was no need to get involved in this matter at all - but the fact that Orianna rewarded the Order of the Fearless directly poked the hornet's nest.

As a good department, the Religious Council receives a large special tax from the Freedom Wings and the Cult of the Guardian of the Storm every year, and a large part of these taxes go directly into the pockets of the Religious Council as personal income.

For the members of the Religious Council, this would have been a good thing for everyone, whether it was the Wings of Liberty or the Cult of the Guardian of the Storm, which were both well-established local sects, and although the money was not too clean in the strict sense of the word, most people still took it with peace of mind.

But now, a Fearless Order that has sprung up out of nowhere, has upset the balance.

As a man accustomed to forming religions to cover the void, Malzaha would not have made lowly mistakes and ignored the religious administrators, but Oriana's commendation gave him some illusions, leading him to think that this was a sign that he had been recognized.

Coupled with the fact that the Wings of Liberty and the Cult of the Guardian of the Storm themselves are more cautious, Malzaha doesn't realize that he has somehow blocked his fortunes.

As a result, the Religious Council began to frequently seek trouble from the Order.

Whether it was the application for a sermon at a meeting or the approval of a mission site, the religious committee was almost stuck as if it could, like a chain, stuck to the neck of the Fearless Order.

Fortunately, the people of Marzaha were not stupid, and after discovering that something was wrong, they reacted quickly and offered their share in time.

Then, without waiting for Marzaha to breathe a sigh of relief, Piltover came again.

In Pitz, the General Department of Taxation is the unit with its own armed organization, and for a city like Piltover, which is based on commerce, tax work is a top priority, and tax evaders are bound to be dealt the hardest.

And the reason why the General Administration of Taxation has found the Order of Fearless is very clear - it is aware that you have a large amount of money flowing and have paid a special religious tax to the religious council that is beyond common sense.

Yes, the religious tax is not under the control of the General Administration of Taxation, but ...... Since you can pay so much religious tax, you must have enough scale to make a living, so I need to find out what you relied on to come up with such a large religious tax.

Marzaha's head is big.

The Void Prophet, accustomed to making trouble in Shurima and Noxus, was a little out of step with the pace of Leather City, and this kind of use of the existing legal provisions and the seemingly straightforward method of finding trouble made Marzaha a little tired to deal with, and in order to hide the fact that he had brought a large amount of gold into the country privately, he had to continue to lie and falsify evidence of large-denomination fundraising, hoping to launder his income.

Unfortunately, Marzaha underestimated the methods of the members of the Supreme Council.

The day after Marzaha provided evidence of the large-denomination fundraising, a "righteous journalist" in Leather City Today made a headline about the whole incident, in which the journalist provided detailed data, including but not limited to the religious tax records of the Fearless Order, evidence of fundraising, the number of meetings, etc., and made some irresponsible reasoning "on the principle of strong social responsibility".

In his reasoning, Marzaha is portrayed as a religious speculator who, "with a little knowledge of abstinence therapy," "puts on a religious cloak without rigorous argumentation" and "pushes it into society and makes a profit on a large scale."

Malzaha had struck himself in the foot with evidence of a massive influx of money, and the journalist dismissed the false data as genuine, and then suggested that "it took less than a month for a new religion to gather the gold hex that the largest printing house in Pitt City could obtain in a year", which was simply "unacceptable wealth accumulation and fraud".

Next, the reporter interviewed many people who participated in the trial of the fearless, and through his own interviews, he came to the conclusion that "these people have emotional cognitive disorders".

Throughout the article, even Marzaha himself shuddered when he read it.

If this is true, then the Fearless Order is really an organization with evil intentions.

As the newspaper with the largest circulation in the whole of Piltover, the headline story of Leather City Today was a direct blow to Malzaha – on the same day, the number of believers who participated in the sermon fell by three-fifths.

It was then that Marzaha realized that the city of Piltover was ...... It's special.