"If there really is such a thing as a spiritual tree."
"Then it may cause serious damage to Solomon City," Varian said, "but the chances of the mutation spreading to areas outside of Italia are very low."
"After all, the movement ability of the Spiritual Essence Tree itself is very slow, and it does not have the evolutionary ability of the Source Tree itself. As long as the movement range of the Spiritual Essence Polluter is blocked, the destruction can be locked inside Solomon City."
"At that time, we only need to move the Church outside the city for temporary shelter. After the military production line outside is restored, we can come back to pacify Solomon City."
"Yes." Innocent nodded. "So, what did the people who developed the Spiritual Tree think?"
"Since the damage of the Spiritual Essence Tree cannot spread beyond Solomon City as long as the Church suppresses it with all its might, then why did they create this degraded version of the Source Tree and release it in such a hurry?"
"Isn't it to catch up with this demon tide?" As soon as Varian said this, he immediately smiled bitterly and shook his head.
The time when the Giotto's bell started to tick was similar to the time when the spiritual pollution was predicted to be released. In other words, if it weren't for these human purist radicals who released the pollution, the Giotto's bell wouldn't even have ticked.
After all, Bishop Langdon had used his authority to privately encrypt Raphael's information, so that relevant clues would not enter Raphael's monitoring queue.
"There must be some other factors that made them decide to launch this plan temporarily." Bishop Varian once again recalled the words that Bishop Langdon used to accuse His Holiness before he was arrested, and suddenly realized something.
"So, it's because of our Licinius family?" he said with difficulty, "because of Nora?"
"Very contradictory, isn't it?" Innocent shook his head. "A human purist who keeps saying that 'it's impossible for the supernatural to check the supernatural' ends up using supernatural means to eliminate the supernatural? Isn't this the biggest suspicion?"
"Or, in fact, they didn't intend to eliminate the extraordinary from the beginning." Varian also suddenly realized and said in a deep voice, "They are deliberately creating conflicts, anxiety and hatred!"
"If the Spiritual Tree caused great damage and was eventually suppressed by the Holy See," Innocent said calmly, "then it would prove a crucial point for the cardinals and the major families."
"That is: using the extraordinary to restrain the extraordinary, not only is the success rate extremely low, but it is also accompanied by huge uncontrollable risks."
"Since the essence of the supernatural is chaos, then why does the Church think that by canonizing a demigod of the Licinius family, they can use her to suppress other supernatural forces?"
"What if this demigod loses control and turns into something similar to the Source Tree? What price will the Church have to pay to suppress it? This kind of unfriendly suspicion with inherent hostility will linger like a nightmare in the hearts of the survivors after the mutation. And every survivor will be a strong resistance to you and your sister coming to power in the future—whether it is within the Church or outside."
"That's why you decided to suppress this change with all your strength." Varian sighed, "I really don't understand, are they so sure that the Spiritual Tree can be suppressed by the Church in the end? What if it really spreads out?"