Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

Bishop Kaser of the National Church was sent to the Benevolent Church that very night due to a heart issue, and in the words of the Benevolent Church’s doctors, if it wasn’t for Malin’s medical potion sustaining him followed by external cardiac compression surgery to pull him through, this old fox would have likely died on the spot.

Indeed, as a major figure of the black-robed faction of the National Church, Kaser Bishop relied on the various action squads he himself had trained, coupled with the collaboration between the black-robed and the Night Watchers, who were the Church’s armed force operating under the guise of having everything under control, rendering others incapable of action. Yet, Malin, like a formidable dragon crossing the river, managed to thoroughly eliminate the root of the problem on both ends.

Thus, with Bishop Kaser’s hospitalization, the black-robed faction in Copenhagen could only call over another black-robed Bishop, Lin Mengping, who was also taking a break.

Like Bishop Tang Wenlin of the Church of Justice, Lin Mengping was a Thanan man, but unlike Bishop Tang whose ancestors traveled with a fleet to Carterburg and eventually ended up in Copenhagen, it is written in the history books of Lin Mengping’s family that the Lin clan has always lived in the Northern Kingdom.

Of course, many people doubt his story, believing his family must have arrived here several millennia ago during a tumultuous period when chaos reigned, and no one really knew how it all transpired.

As for how a Thanan family came here from Thainan during those chaotic millennia, nobody could say for sure, not even Bishop Lin himself.

Malin knew—they were Chinese who had lived in Northern Europe even before the Great Destruction Era.

Just like Bishop Tang , whose family had mixed blood over the generations, the only sign of his Thanan heritage were his black hair, while Bishop Lin was completely a Northerner, without any other physical traits matching those of the Thanan people apart from his name.

However, it must be mentioned, Bishop Lin spoke fluent Thanan language, so fluent that Malin could even converse with him in it.

Their returning to Koser Town along with others brought quite the cultural confusion—apart from Bishop Tang, the rest like Lady Isabella of the Night Watchers, the small squad from the Mage Tower arriving to rebuild after the battle, and two bishops from the violet and red factions of the National Church as witnesses, all had baffled expressions as they couldn’t understand what the two were talking about.

When they arrived at the courtyard, Malin had the Mage Tower’s squad start to reconstruct the battle sequence—a Spell Formation meant to trace back all the events that took place in a certain area over a period of time. Sometimes, it could be disrupted by various Spell Formation reactions left at the scene, but it was generally still usable.