Little Tyrant Doesn't Want to Meet with a Bad End Chapter 449.1: Familiar Faces (1)

All nobles of the Sia Continent, regardless of country, deemed envoys from the Genesis Goddess Church to be esteemed guests.

The Genesis Goddess Church was the largest human religion, after all. Even for non-believers, the influence and power it wielded entitled them to the highest level of respect. While there were plenty of powerful nobles out there, the Genesis Goddess Church practically had a monopoly in the field of religions.

However, this was a gross simplification of reality.

The relationship between the church and the nobles was actually much more nuanced. There were many influences that one had to take into account, such as geographical location.

In the Theocracy, where devout believers of the Genesis Goddess Church were aplenty, the bishops of the church naturally commanded a high social standing, possibly even comparable to that of nobles.

However, in rural villages or places where the church’s teachings didn’t reach, the religious power of the church would be greatly diminished. Sometimes, it might even backfire.

The Austine Empire was one good example of that.

Due to the hostile relationship between the Austine Empire and the Theocracy, citizens of the Austine Empire didn’t harbor any goodwill for the Genesis Goddess Church despite having faith in Goddess Sia. In the Seze Dukedom, the fame and influence of legendary hero Layton Seze far surpassed that of the church.

Brookley Seze was the current patriarch of the Seze House, having inherited its duke title. Under normal circumstances, he would have simply ignored the envoy party sent by the Genesis Goddess Church, but not this time.

The envoy party had visited with a letter in hand.

This letter wasn’t written in the name of the church but in an individual’s capacity. It was addressed to the hero of the Austine Empire, Layton Seze, and the writer had signed himself off as ‘an old friend’.

There was only one person in the Saint Mesit Theocracy who could identify himself as such before Layton Seze—the Origin Level 1 transcendent who had also emerged as a

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