Priests and paladins, despite their devotion to their god, weren’t any different from any other human. Factions existed within the Great Temple. The factions led by the three cardinals had been the most influential in the past; the priests and paladins had sworn their loyalty to the man they believed was most likely to become the next pope in the hopes of gaining more power when he became pope.0

Aside from those who had been sent outside the empire under imperial orders, all of the people in the Great Temple were in Kurz’s faction and had been serving him for a long time.0

“Do you think the news of the incident in the Palace is true?”0

A total of fifty-three paladins who were in Kurz’s faction from the start made their way away from the capital. It didn't take long for them to reach their destination because the Great Temple was relatively far from the palace but was close to the city’s outer reaches.0

“Duke Jook told me himself,...0