Chapter 869: Chapter 514: Baris
This time, not only did Shen Sui fall silent, but Alice also followed suit.
Alice never imagined that upon her return, she would help Aivia solve a major internal threat.
Later, she discussed in detail with Oshana regarding the Eternal Day Sect.
Alice is now considered familiar with church organizations and has some understanding of the intricate dynamics within.
On the Dawn Continent, the church places great importance on the presence of the Gods.
The cohesion within the church relies on the immense power of the Gods’ combat strength.
If a deity is directly killed in front of all the believers, the foundation of the church established by that deity collapses, leading to its demise.
A thousand years ago, the Twilight of the Gods was a beheading operation by the Twilight Council against the deity.
A thousand years later, the Daylight’s war to eradicate the Gods follows the same principle, directly eliminating the deities of the church to dissolve its existence.
Therefore, the church absolutely does not tolerate anyone questioning their Gods.
Yet, the Eternal Day Sect is a peculiar organization within the church, openly questioning the authenticity of Lady of Daylight, which has violated the taboos of ordinary churches.
However, according to Oshana, before her accidental annihilation of them, even Daylight Pope Aivia seemed to have had no way to deal with them.
So, what is the reason behind this?
Thus, Oshana began slowly explaining the background of the Eternal Day Sect to Alice.
["There’s a lot of noise on your end, has anything happened?" Oshana suddenly asked.]
[Alice glanced back at the fiercely burning Sun Prison and the intense battle between the criminals and the clergy, she replied nonchalantly: "There’s been a little conflict here, nothing major."]
[Alice was the one who set the fire in Sun Prison, and now she was already burdened with many debts, having burned down two prisons before. Burning one more seemed to be no problem.]
[But Alice also knew that the tolerance of the powerful beings from the Daylight Church was probably reaching its limit.]
[The reason they hadn’t directly killed her before was likely because they suspected she was sent by the Pope to specifically eliminate these dissenters. Out of respect for the Pope, these powerful beings showed leniency by imprisoning her, but Alice was unsure of their views and measures to address the situation with the burning of Sun Prison.]
Oshana, without harboring any doubt, began to tell Alice about the background of the Eternal Day Sect.
They are the fanatical followers of Lady of Daylight.
Members of the founding families that rebuilt the Daylight Church in the past.
Moreover, they were the main members of the tribunal that burned the Twilight Saintess Vivian.
Upon hearing that these people had also burned Vivian, Alice couldn’t hold back anymore and exclaimed that they deserved to die.
Whether it was the rebuilding of the Daylight Church or the judgment of Vivian, these achievements emphasized their significant merit, even if the current members of the Eternal Day Sect are merely descendants of those people, their influence within the church is extremely enormous.
Yet, such a highly influential sect was inexplicably wiped out under the statue.
Alice’s collision stunned all factions in Sun City.
Their first reaction was that Pope Aivia finally couldn’t bear it any longer and acted, hence they dared not directly kill Alice, opting instead to imprison her.
However, Alice quickly escaped from the prison without any delay. Every time she was captured, she would escape in a remarkably short period, increasingly unsettling these clergy and knights.
If the first escape was due to Pope Aivia’s intervention, then the subsequent increasingly skilled and quick escapes wouldn’t be so efficient even if the Pope personally led someone in flight.
Sun City’s prisons are not simple places.
All places of imprisonment are blessed by Lady of Daylight, and it is said that in the highest level Sun Prison, there are even ten deities defeated and sealed by Lady of Daylight.
This mysterious Dragon Knight, being able to come and go freely in a prison blessed by the goddess, raises suspicions about her possible connection with Lady of Daylight.
Couple this with her easily demolishing the most iconic deity statue of Lady of Daylight, the very statue upon which Lady of Daylight descended several times, it’s hard for these devoted followers of Daylight not to suspect one thing:
The true force behind the annihilation of the Eternal Day Sect wasn’t Pope Aivia, who was constantly bothered by this sect, but the lady being questioned as an imposter.
This implies that this mysterious Dragon Knight indeed has someone above her, and that behind-the-scenes figure isn’t someone these minor clergy can overstep.
This suspicion was confirmed in their hearts when Alice escaped from Sun Prison.
A prison that even deities couldn’t escape from was now easily escaped by what appeared to be a little girl not even sixteen years old, for one reason only: she had the damn keys to the prison!
Thus, after Alice escaped from Sun Prison, even as she openly walked the streets, those powerful clergy and knights turned a blind eye, fully focused on suppressing the chaos among the Sun Prison criminals.
