Usually, Joshua wouldn't try to pick a fight with them and even give in to their demands, but today, they had gone too far.
They tried to protect a criminal that ruined his relationship with his youngest son.
He didn't hold back and struck them so hard that they flew out of the Whitemore mansion and landed on the doorsteps of their church that stood opposite the mansion.
Seeing that the ruler of the Ironspire Stronghold dared to bully even the member of the church, the crowd that had gathered to protest and demand the release of Bartholomew immediately dispersed.
They were cowards.
They lacked the guts to sacrifice themselves for the sake of someone else.
"The members of the Church of Light are really cowardly, abandoning their comrades to wolves just because they felt threatened," Val scoffed. "But I expected this of them."