Chapter 184: A foolish tactic

Rashire City, The Sinyalian Kingdom.

Edwin had returned to the Walsh Dukedom's Mansion. He had succeeded in his task of using his identity to rope in the Radiant Church.

In reality, using his identity to do such a thing had its disadvantages. If the Pope contacted an angel supervising him, he would find out that there was no Holy Son named Nudar.

Once the Pope realized that he had been fooled, he was bound to be furious.

However, it went without saying that the Pope wouldn't ask for confirmation. The man was lost in his own little beautiful dreams.

The Pope knew that if he helped a Holy Son, he would be generously rewarded. He might even receive the Divine Blessings of God and get a chance to innately cultivate the Holy Ardor.

He would ascend from the Rank of Pope and become a Divine Envoy and be allowed to live in Heaven.

However, for his beautiful dreams to turn into reality, Edwin would have to be a Holy Son. His longing to become a Divine Envoy prevented him from having doubts regarding Edwin's identity as a Holy Son.

Currently, he believed that this was the truth, and he would be able to instantly soar to the heavens after destroying the Roger Dukedom.

Naturally, this was nothing more than wishful thinking on his part.

Edwin met up with Siluca Walsh. He frankly informed her, "The Radiant Church has agreed to cooperate with us."

Siluca nodded and then asked him, "What were their conditions?"

Edwin couldn't say that the Radiant Church put up no conditions. He was already prepared for this, though.

"They have asked the Walsh Dukedom to prevent any aid from reaching the Roger Dukedom for one month. They are going to handle the extermination of the Roger Dukedom by themselves." Edwin spoke.

"They are really confident. What makes the Radiant Church think they can destroy the strongest dukedom in this Kingdom? Is it due to the support of the angels?" Siluca asked with a scowl.

Edwin replied, "The power of the Radiant Church is something even I can't correctly estimate. From my observation, the Pope appeared quite calm and confident in dealing with the Roger Dukedom. I didn't ask him about it lest he would suspect me."

Siluca let out a sigh. She had thought that the Radiant Church would ask them for a group of high-rank warriors. If that was the case, Siluca would have been delighted.

During a critical moment, her soldiers could launch a surprise attack on the Radiant Church's people, killing everyone.

She mentioned this tactic to Edwin, and after hearing it, he couldn't help but stare at her with a disdainful look in his eyes.

Siluca frowned upon noticing Edwin's gaze. She didn't like how he was gazing at her with that scornful look.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" She asked, with a bit of authority present in her voice.

As a duchess, she naturally demanded respect from Edwin. However, Edwin rolled his eyes upon hearing that question.

"Do you think with your toes? What a foolish tactic you thought up." Edwin was certainly merciless with his words.

His words made Siluca flinch, but she remained quiet and decided to hear him out completely. He would rarely say something illogical.

Edwin continued, "Don't say whether you succeed in harming the Radiant Church with this or not. Let's say you are successful in truly destroying the Radiant Church by stabbing them in the back. Don't you understand that if you attempt this, the Walsh Dukedom will be at the end of its line?"

Seeing the confused look on Siluca's face, Edwin let out a sigh and began to explain, "The news of the Walsh Dukedom cooperating with the Radiant Church would soon spread in the entire Kingdom. During a key moment, if your men truly stab the Radiant Church in the back, then what do you think the Roger Dukedom will do? They will record this incident using the Visionary Spiritual Jade."

"They will have two possibilities after that. One would be to use that Image in the Visionary Spiritual Jade and blackmail you through it. The other would be to directly spread the Visionary Spiritual Jade."

"Through the first possibility, the Roger Dukedom would eat up your entire Dukedom and then destroy you while if they went along with the second possibility, they would directly destroy your dukedom."

It was at that moment that the realization dawned in Siluca's mind.

She now understood the massive blunder of her tactic, "Once the people find out about this, the Radiant Church's followers all over the Sinyalian Kingdom will become our enemy."

Edwin nodded and spoke, "That's correct. And after making the citizens of the entire Sinyalian Kingdom your enemy, your Dukedom will not be able to survive. The King would be extremely pleased to listen to his citizens and provide justice to the dead Radiant Church's clerics by raising his butcher's knife. You can guess the result after that."

A bead of sweat trickled down Siluca's face. She wasn't perspiring because of the hot temperature but because of the nervousness. That was truly a terrible plan.

She couldn't help but raise her head and ask Edwin, "…Then what should we do?" She had no choice but to ask for his assistance again.

Siluca had noticed that she was relying on Edwin even more. It was a terrible mistake. She didn't have much choice, though.

She couldn't see a path forward. She didn't know how she could take down the Radiant Church without looking suspicious.

Every time she promised herself that this would be the last time she sought his help, another issue arose that she needed his help with.

She believed that the fault lay with Edwin since he would always give her a good solution.

Edwin had finished thinking of a solution and began speaking, "In reality, it's not such a major issue. The Radiant Church has asked the Walsh Dukedom to prevent any aid to reach the Roger Dukedom. If your men slack off and some help does reach the Roger Dukedom, it can't be considered your fault, right?"

There was a clever smirk on his face.

Siluca instantly understood what he was trying to say. She had to admit, it was a good idea. And there was no way the Roger Dukedom could turn the situation on them.

"The better question would be just how strong the Radiant Church is."

"If the Pope can summon just a single Angel, it will be a close fight between the Radiant Church and Roger Dukedom. However, if the number of angels he can summon is 2 or 3, the Roger Dukedom will be utterly destroyed."

Edwin spoke in his heart 'And if that Pope can by any chance summon an Archangel, then all kinds of tactics will be meaningless.'

There was only a low chance of this happening.

The Archangels should have been sent to churches that had a higher priority or a higher ranking.

"The only thing we can do for now is to prepare for the worst-case scenario. That would be the Pope summoning three Angels." Edwin spoke with a confident look on his face. He did have a plan in his mind.

Seeing his confident face, Siluca couldn't help but blankly stare at him. She appeared to be lost in her fantasies.

It was only when Edwin shook her body a little that she woke up. Once Siluca jolted out of her fantasies, she instantly blushed and moved her body a little while facing Edwin.

"Sorry, I was lost in thoughts. What were you saying?" She asked him calmly while trying to hide her tomato-red face.

"I said, be ready to spend a lot of money."