After the sole day of relaxation, the training began again, this time, Debauchery went all out, they only had a month to train with the kids and that was too short to lead to any notable progress. Thus Debauchery started combat practice at level 5 and let the kids adapt to it.
The training focused on building up the attributes of the kids instead of any other aspects, taking advantage of the last energies of the spirit heart, and it worked marvelously. At the end of the month, Reina, Leol, and Lili all had gained 8 points in each attribute, while Yunan got himself 10, most likely Because Yunan struggled less and was already used to such hellish training that he was able to get more benefits than the other kids.
As for Debauchery, Leader decided to tell Markus the pope about the latest movement of the cult and their bases in the dungeon, as well as heading to hunt those first.
Upon return to the council, Markus called for a meeting, for the first time since he took over regency over the supreme cult a few centuries ago. What he found disturbing was that some members of the council took their time in joining the meeting. And so Markus started it without them. There were 3 who missed the first meeting called by the head of the council.
During the council Markus listened to the reports about the changes he ordered. The power of faith was now widely introduced in the cathedrals and smaller churches, the number of nuns and priests training in the power of faith had grown by a factor of 15, prioritizing the sisters in the orphanages and those who work in hospitals and were in contact with people before introducing the new power.
The Training of the knights that are protecting the smaller churches has been increased from level 3 to level 10, during this period members of the church's legion were sent to provide protection while the old knights were sent back into the dungeon, again prioritizing those who are already in service to teach them holy magic.
The cult has been split into two factions, only ten percent of the members are those who care about growing humanity instead of destroying the races, those have been added into the legion after memory checks and are now under training, the results are satisfactory.
It was also found that the science department is not affiliated with either side, but are more inclined to work on their own discoveries instead of any political affiliation, they were left alone to work as they please, since they are not a threat to the church.
As for the faction that is focusing on eradication of other races and intolerance, they have been left to their own devices, and they are making rather larger movements than they should be doing. As for the church itself, there have been recruitment and processing of civilians who will be trained in the holy power of faith.
The results from introducing the holy power of faith to the masses is beyond expectations, the masses have more faith and are generating bigger and bigger amounts of faith to be used by the church, the faith in the light has reached unprecedented levels and the masses are more inclined to be believers in the light.
The council also have created centers for care for those victims of the monsters and the aristocracy, and there are many who came forward to testify against certain lords and ladies, after confirmation of the allegations the church has denounced those lords and ladies and offered protection from them, although the guild has not moved against the church or displayed any displeasure, the aristocracy are trying to push the guild into such action, it is believed that the extremist faction is behind those.
At this point the three late members have arrived at the council room, they took their seats and listened to the rest of the reports.
The legion as a faction only loyal to the head the council has been suffered infiltration and there is a major leak in the information, the leak was found to be under the employment of an heir, who have used despicable means to corrupt some sisters and enslaved them to his will, said heir have been very careful and did not show his face or figure during contact with the corrupted sisters.
That drew a hint of a smile on the old hag's face, something Markus did not miss. He then made his own report to the council.
"An heir had tried to contact the science department for the creation of mana weapons, and bombs, during his visit to make the demand, he was ambushed by the guild, and his escorts have divulge that information, in a bout of stupidity, the heir sent senior agents from the military department up to level 25 to terminate his former escorts and cost us around 15 senior agents, some of them had been searched and from their memories, the guild knows about our reserve members and their bases inside the dungeon, the smuggling routes we used to get agents in and out of the dungeon, as well as half of the remaining agents that are working in the guild."
"The leader of the guild had contacted me to ask for help from my legion to break my own bases, and kill my own men, now that even the guild is hunting for the cult we are done, this here is the point of separation, either join the church and be loyal or be destroyed with the cult, i was willing to hold back my legion from entering the conflict, but if you think that corrupting my daughter's is something to smile about, then face my wrath, i have drawn away all the members of legion from the bases of the cult, and provided some of my daughters to help scan memories and kill anyone who refuses to be scanned before entering or leaving the dungeon"
The ugly faces on the three late comers explained all there is to explain, they had left their heirs to do as they wish, and that has now drowned the cult in a hunt from the guild, not only were they exposed, the source of their strength was now cornered inside the dungeon and they could not even send messages to them. Not to mention that now even the legion of the head of the council was helping the guild because their own heirs acted out of place.
It could be salvaged if Debauchery was the only suppliers of information about the cult to the guild, but now that they had a more direct resource, they can just choke them, by denying them the ability to get inside the dungeon, and killing of everyone in the Dungeon affiliated with the cult they will effectively lose the fighting power they had spent centuries to build.
It was over, their only escape now was to preside over the cult personally, and hide while doing damages to everyone who was against them, and now that the council has called for separation, the there being late has already made it clear which camp they belonged to