After making adjustments to his new servants' views on demonism, Konrad took them into his s.p.a.ce treasure to sign Master-Servant contracts. With that out of the way, he brought them back to the outside world for the next phase of his plan.
With seven Semi-Saint inquisitresses, his reach greatly expended. Using their connections, across several hours, he enslaved another seventeen Semi-Saint inquisitresses and more than one hundred Transcendent level inquisitresses.
The church's low-level Semi-Saint force was barely over two-hundred-fifty. Now, almost ten percent of it had fallen into Konrad's hands, but this was only the beginning.
From the start, his target had always been the inquisition's vault. With the abundance of wealth and treasures it contained, Konrad could establish a firm foothold within the empire. However, with high-level Semi-Saints being the only ones eligible to access it, he had no hope of plundering it.
And a.s.suming he did, the church would soon fall into chaos. There were two non-negotiable requirements to successfully leave the church with those resources: A solid plan that accounted for all variables, and someone to frame. A non-obvious target with a peculiar enough background that the raised doubts wouldn't come back to bite him in the rear.
"Who's the grand Inquisitress with the least roots within the church?"
Konrad asked his new slaves. In the inquisition department, low-level Semi-Saints were t.i.tled high-level inquisitresses while high-level Semi-Saints bore the t.i.tle of grand inquisitresses.
Within the church, the status of Grand Inquisitress was comparable to archbishops', and among other things, their duties consisted of overseeing large operations to crack down on heretic groups and even frame innocent n.o.bles with heresy to seize their a.s.sets and extinguish their houses if need be.
There were fifty of them in total.
"If we're talking about the grand inquisitress with the least roots, it would be Grand Inquisitress Margo. She's the aunt of the Kriegel Duke."
"Oh?"
Taken by surprise, Konrad didn't immediately respond. Although the church didn't discriminate against talent, it was after all chiefly controlled by paragon spirits and was therefore prejudiced against the serpent race that once ruled the land now composing the Holy Flame Empire.
For that reason, unless not given another choice, most serpent n.o.bles would avoid sending their children into the church, and those who could make it to the high level were few and far between.
"Cultivation and time spent within the church?"
"Sixth step Semi-Holy Priest. She's been in the church for more than a thousand years and rarely contacts her family. A social disaster, she has no friend or anyone that can boast knowing her well. What she does in her spare time is a mystery. However, she's very diligent in her work and never leaves rooms for reproaches. "
