Chapter 224: Deteriorating Step by Step
“Not a big problem.”

Through the Church of the Sun God, Moralich received a reply from the elves, and the news that Lysabel had rejected the non-aggression agreement was not lost.

"As long as they can help me deal with those nobles and not cause trouble for me at this time, I'll be thankful."

Morari's eyes quickly turned to the map.

Not only are the monsters attacking, but the heretics within the Sun God Cult are also active.

Some villages that believed in their heresy also disappeared. Their believers disappeared from the sight of the Principality and the Church along with the heretics. Only some rumors about the true sanctuary of the Sun God appeared on this continent.

It seems that all heretics need to go to that "sanctuary" and receive baptism from the real sun.

In the principality, perhaps because of the long-standing belief in the god of nature, there are not many people who believe in those heresies, but this is a new trouble for Morarichi. The large-scale population loss makes the already poorly functioning principality even more difficult to maintain.

The news from the elves at least showed that they would not be enemies with humans, which made Moralichi feel a little relieved. It also ensured that the noble alliances in the rear of the principality would not be able to cause more trouble for Moralichi.

That's good enough.

"How's the cleanup of those monster nests going?"

The adjutant's face looked a little ugly, and he glanced at the documents in his hand.

"Those monsters seem to have a unified command now. Whenever we find and approach a nest during the day, they will abandon their nest after nightfall."

According to human common sense, these monsters will hardly choose to abandon their nests. Although the principle is unknown, those monsters can only reproduce normally in the nests built according to their ancient customs, and the strength they can exert is also a little stronger than outside.

Even when facing an invincible foreign enemy, they will try to resist first, and only choose to flee when they have completely lost all hope.

And the Principality's troops are far from invincible.

"First blockade, then try to lay siege after dawn the next day?"

It is not easy to find these monster nests hidden in places where few humans have been. It takes a lot of time, not to mention that under the current situation, the Principality's troops can only conduct large-scale searches during the day. They need to set up camp at night to guard against surprise attacks from monsters that appear out of nowhere.

Every time they found the monsters' nests, the sun was about to set below the horizon, and the Principality's troops had to give up the attack.

"The commanders on the front line have tried, but those monsters will break through, and there are other types of monsters outside that will appear from behind our blockade to support them. The blockade can hardly be maintained under such circumstances."

The situation now is very clear. Those monsters have already had some basic organization and coordination. Although a single attack is still carried out by a single monster group, at a higher level, they have at least begun to communicate information and have basic command.

If this continues, humans will face a coalition formed by various monster tribes.

A single monster group has various weaknesses and flaws. Even the giant dragons, their flawed instincts and impulses allow humans to make targeted arrangements and lead them into a dead end. If it were not for the dragons' own powerful strength and the intimidation of the Council of Elders, the dragons' lives on the continent would not be much better than those of other monster groups.

But if those monsters completely unite and form a coalition, they will be able to make up for each other's shortcomings. At least Morarichi can't see how much chance humans have of defeating such a monster coalition whose strength far exceeds that of humans and whose organization is not much worse than that of humans.

"What's the situation in the church now?" In Morarichi's opinion, there is only one way now. That is to quickly kill those heretics of the Sun God Church and extinguish the sun that emits sunlight that is poisonous to aliens.

If there were no survival crisis, those alien monsters would probably just vent their anger and return to their nests.

After all, humans are still the most powerful single race on the entire continent. If those monsters and aliens want to completely exterminate humans, they will have to pay a sufficient price.

Even if they eventually defeat humans, the vast majority of these alien monsters will be buried with humans.

As long as they can extinguish the sun, those monsters will have no reason to wage a war with humans that concerns the survival of the race.

"Arch Priest Lemming is working hard."

The adjutant could only give this answer.

The church has now lost one-third of their churches and personnel. These people have become heretics. It has become impossible for the church to completely eradicate these heretics in a short period of time.

Now, Laming can only try to eliminate the influence of those heretical beliefs in the areas that he can still control.

But in those dioceses that no longer responded to him, he could only watch as the heretics preached in those areas and organized their own crusading armies and priest teams.

"I need more manpower to deal with those heretics."

Laming is asking the church for more resources, but the answers he gets remain the same.

"I can't send you any more support at this time."

The Church is now facing huge troubles in various parts of the mainland and simply cannot spare any extra manpower. Most of the high priests and chief priests who manage their own dioceses have to rely on the resources at hand to solve the problems they face.

"In this case, we can only ignore some of the regulations in the holy book."

Laming stood up and finished speaking, and the whispering in his ear gradually disappeared.

After the heretics created the new rising sun, there was at least one piece of good news.

That is, after the power of faith of those extreme believers was turned to the new sun, Lei Ming could feel that the voice of the sun he believed in became clearer than it had been a hundred years ago, without those crazy roars and mutterings.

However, the madness caused by the resonance between these believers and the gods will not disappear out of thin air. Now, Lei Ming doesn't even dare to imagine what those heretics hear when they pray.

"I hope they can finally find peace under the sun."

Laming prayed silently and then looked at the deacon beside him.

"Tell Grand Duke Moralich that I need his troops."

(End of this chapter)