Chapter 172 The Principality's Attention

On Morari's map, the pursuing troops have created an encirclement again. The resistance fighters are now blocked in this encirclement. As time goes by, the encirclement is gradually shrinking.

Apart from one slightly odd thing, the resistance units in the encirclement seemed to be quite quiet, and the Principality forces had not come under any recent attack.

It seemed that the resistance fighters had hidden themselves in the forest and had no intention of breaking out.

"Still no reports on the movements of the resistance fighters?"

Morari looked at his adjutant beside him. Lisabel's resistance force was different from the others. They were much more proactive than other resistance forces and never acted according to the expectations of the Principality's troops.

"There are no reports of any contact between any of the forces and those resistance forces."

This situation has been going on for a week, and Morari still doesn't know the purpose of the resisters.

“Any reaction from the church?”

The only possible reason is that those resisters were targeting the Sun God Cult.

Among those resisters there are many believers of the God of Nature. Although the aid from the elves has been cut off, this should not be enough to shake the faith of a believer.

The Sun Cult's current attacks on the elves' forests and attempts to convert believers in the God of Nature are enough to arouse the hostility of the resistance.

According to the information Morari received, the high priest seemed to have appeared in that area recently and was carrying out missionary work.

"The church, they are the same as before, nothing has changed."

The adjutant checked the documents in his hand, which were densely packed with records of all the things that might need attention recently. Morarichi simply couldn't believe that the surrendered nobles needed to pay personal attention to all matters big and small in the principality. Therefore, in order to prevent omissions, there was an entire team that collected a list of things that might need attention every day.

The adjutant flipped through the information collected in recent days. Among the church-related matters, only one thing might need attention, and it had a very low priority. If Morari hadn't mentioned the church, this matter might not have been reported to Morari until the end of this week.

"It seems that Archbishop Lemming will return to the Capital Cathedral soon."

If it had not involved Archbishop Laming, such a thing would not have been included in this document.

The flow of personnel in the church is a very normal thing, especially now that the church is preaching everywhere. Both personnel and materials are being mobilized at any time. After all, the territories of many surrendered nobles in the principality have exceeded the church's imagination.

On the bad side.

After all, the Sun God Cult never expected that those nobles could own so many forests that produced various materials, yet still cause famine in their territories every now and then.

This forced the church to frequently mobilize supplies and personnel to deal with territories that exceeded the church's original expectations.

"What has the church done recently that requires Lemming to return to the capital cathedral?" Moralichi had almost forgotten Lemming's existence recently. He had not appeared in Moralichi's sight for a long time. During this period, he seemed to have been traveling around the principality, guiding the missionary activities of the Sun God Church, and according to the agreement with Moralichi, he took over the management of a large number of principalities in the territories of the surrendered nobles.

And this seemed to be enough to consume most of Lemming's energy. Even after the Sun God Cult took over those poorly managed territories, it would take a lot of effort to barely get the production and work in these territories up and running again. And the extremely chaotic financial and evidence documents left behind would take several months to sort out.

Most of the priests of the Sun God Cult have learned how to manage in the church school. After all, the management of a church involves many things. If there are enough priests and they can form teams with clear division of labor, they can indeed manage an entire territory.

At least most of them could do better than those nobles.

However, these territories did not belong to the church after all. Even many nobles were happy to see the church manage their territories for them, which saved them trouble and also earned them much more taxes than if they had managed them themselves before.

However, the territory ultimately belonged to the nobles, and the powers of the priests were greatly restricted. Many plans required Laming to personally inspect the local area before he could make a decision and communicate with the nobles.

Although most of the time, this only requires a letter with the seal of Lemming, and those nobles will not even open these letters, and will let their stewards cooperate with the priests of the church. But this process still needs to be followed, and occasionally some nobles will want to show their concern for the development of the territory, and will interfere with these plans, which will cost Lemming more energy.

It has been a long time since Laming has been back to the cathedral in the capital, and recently, the territories he has been to have not allowed him to have the breathing space to return to the cathedral in the capital and give himself a short vacation.

Morarich had read the relevant reports on Lake Territory. Even if Morarich himself were to manage that territory, it would probably take a week or two to sort out the basic territory management work.

"Something must have happened in the church. Pay more attention to the church's recent developments."

The lieutenant picked up a pen and added Moralich's instructions to his to-do list.

"Raise the priority of reporting all church-related activities to me by one... not two levels."

Morari then added, and looked back at the map.

Laming's sudden return to the capital of the Principality is a worrying news, but it is just a worrying news. The church is a huge organization. Even if something really happened, there will not be any obvious changes in one day. Although it does need more attention, for Morarich, it is not something that requires a lot of energy immediately.

At least, it would take until some real changes in the church occurred and began to affect the principality before Morarichi would have the reason and motivation to interfere.

"Yes!"

The adjutant at the side added a note to his list to increase the priority of the church.

A staff officer walked in from the corner door. The staff officer belonged to the information processing department, which was a new department established since Morari took office. It helped him screen and organize the information that needed attention.

The staff officer walked over to the adjutant and began to update the information that needed to be processed recently.

Moralich ignored them and looked at the map. The encirclement of the pursuit troops was well constructed. At least he did not find any loopholes that could allow Lisabel's resistance fighters to slip out.

(End of this chapter)