"Hang on! Just hang on! We are almost there," Falmir said while looking at Levin's worsening condition.
What he didn't see was that Elvire was rapidly healing herself and getting in better shape when every second passed.
Finally, her strength boost stopped, and the black ball was once again satisfied and finally ceased its movement and just settled down inside Elvire. However, despite it being silent at the moment, it was still looking forward to its next dinner and when it could release its next seal to aid its hosts.
^In the same time in the temporary headquarters of the church^
"Brothers and sisters today is a day we mourn our beloved Pope passed away today in the afternoon. But it wasn't natural death at all; it was orchestrated by our worst enemy by Rodona herself! You heard right there is still Rodona's followers here even we did think we managed to exterminate that's pest out of the world and make the world a better place once again!"
"But no, we were betrayed by no one else than by our brother and sister! You heard right today we managed to find out that our next possibility to become head paladin Levin and his wife were sheltered by a girl that was Rodona's priestess! That same girl murdered our dear Pope and many of our brothers and sisters that were sent there peacefully to take the girl away from Levin and Jaana thinking that the girl manipulated them as it wouldn't be the first time for a pest like that to manipulate stronger people just to get shelter and a safe place!"
"But no Levin and Jaana attacked our brothers and sisters and cold, cold hearty they killed our beloved brothers and sisters and even invited their friends to it! Yes, today, we have learned that Falmir helped those murders escape while killing a few of our men also, and then there was an unknown identity with him! But brothers and sisters will we let this pass without doing anything at all! You guessed right; we won't!"
We must find our new Pope and all of you who think they could pass the divine tests that our God has made for selecting the new Pope can round up to us starting from tomorrow afternoon!" Bishop Arnulf ended his long-lasting speech and looked at how the crowd was shouting justice to the church, burn the traitors, catch the murders and how they cursed Rodona and blamed her for their Pope's murder.
Arnulf saw that he's speech had delivered those things in their minds, and it was a successful one for starting the flame on their hearts.
Then he suddenly had a great idea to push their limits even more. "Brothers and sisters now, when I see that the flame for divine justice is burning inside you, I can finally tell that it was Rodona who sent those orcs and beasts here!"
"She wanted to draw our church here, and she thought she could eliminate and take her revenge against us by making an alliance with a lower God and promising sweet nothings in its ear!
So Rodona manipulated that peaceful God to attack our nation by promising it fame and glory while like a marionette, she was playing with the strings of her puppet!?"
"Look around you even we won and repelled the orcs and beasts, for now, we lost half of the city and countless lives, and we don't know when they will start attacking again! There is still an army out there wanting to kill every last of us, but will we allow it?" Arnulf asked from the crowd.
"No! No! No! No! No, we won't allow it; we will fight back!" The crowd was shouting out, and Arnulf continued before the flame in their hearts would be extinguished.
"Yes, we won't allow it at all; we will show Rodona, and for everyone that our church isn't just your average church that you cannot offend so easily. We won't allow it at all, and we will show our strength in these weeks and destroy Rodona's plan to exterminate us, and we will have our revenge!" Arnulf ended his speech and saw that he was successful with it by the crowd's expressions.
Even when he knew that most of those things weren't true what he just said, but if a lie is repeated many times, in the end, it will become the truth.
When he was just a bishop and not a cardinal, he held quite a promising position in the church as he's skilled with words and manipulating the crowd. He wasn't enthusiastic with he's faith like some but enough to climb up close to the pipe and get an official post of being the messenger and speechmaker for the church. He once again delivered successfully those things that the crowd wanted to hear and not those that they didn't want to hear.
Now they had reason to fight again to get their revenge and not just abandon the church, and now they had all common target Rodona.