Ville Zentra’s Auction Week – Part 06

“Now then, I have a few matters to discuss with the city governors. If you’ll excuse me.”

“Knock yourself out,” Patricia replied offhandedly.

Smiling pleasantly, the old man made his way toward the governors. After driving in the nail, he now moved to hammer it deeper. Ruthless, perhaps, but that was politics. Patricia couldn’t care less.

“The Church,” she murmured.

That was what really concerned her. She had heard about the friction between the Theocracy of Bios and the Confederacy of Einbiest, but she never expected it to escalate into full-scale war. Even more surprising was how quickly Bios fell. From Vireocean, one had to cross a steep mountain range to reach Bios—the very mountains Hikaru’s party had crossed—making large-scale deployment of troops difficult. By the time she seriously considered sending aid, the war was already over.

From distant Ville Zentra, it was hard to grasp what truly happened in the Holy City of