Firearms have an unmatched position in the Anjleimaun Federation. Whether it is martial practitioners or beasts such as tigers, lions, and leopards, none of them stand a chance against firearms.
Since the crystallization of human civilization in this world, firearms have had no effect on Vali; the local mobsters who attempted to rob them realized that they had met someone whom they shouldn't have offended.
Even in the Transcendent Church, only the pinnacle existences can achieve this degree of invulnerability. Obviously, this was only applicable to the mortals who worshipped the Gods of the Transcendent Church.
In the Anjleimaun Federation, only those high-ranking members of the government knew about the truth of the Transcendent Church and its power and how deep it was. Though, there were many rumors about the Transcendent Church and its influence on the world.
Yet it was undeniable that the Transcendent Church was the most powerful organization in the entire Middle World. Though at the same time, the nations of the world often suppressed the information about the Transcendent Church to cull the influence of the Transcendent Church
The reason why a person in a higher position appears to show greater insight than a person in a lower position is because there is a massive gap in information between the two parties.
Vali and others spent a few days collecting information about the world, countries, nations, people, and, of course, the Transcendent Church.
The Transcendent Church is a religious organization that believed in the Three Transcendent Kings. The Three Transcendent Kings are the Vajra Transcendent, the Goddess of the Earth, and the Six-eyed Transcendent.
According to legend, the Vajra Transcendent has the most powerful Divine Body, which no spell can break. Vajra Transcendent was revered as the most powerful of them and was attributed to creating and establishing the new natural order of all things.
Something that struck Vali and co in a very bad way, especially Rias, because she was responsible for the Ecclesiarchy and spreading the Faith in the Baatorian Gods of the Higher Dimension World of the Baator.
If the more fanatical and zealous members of the Ecclesiarchy hear about this, they would immediately declare the Holy Crusade on this middle world and slaughter everyone residing in this world before they would blast this world into smitterness.
However, it seemed that the Vajra Transcendent wasn't the only interesting one in the Transcendent Church.
The Goddess of the Earth was rumored to be unbeatable as long as she was connected to the very own concept of the Earth itself. And the Six Eyes of the Six-Eyed Transcendent were rumored to hold different Divine Abilities each.
Among them, two hold the power of fire and ice, respectively. As for the other four eyes, anyone who witnessed their Divine Powers is dead.
Not only was the Transcendent Church rumored to have three peerless Transcendent Kings, but they also had the numbers on their side. Under the Three Transcendent Kings, there are 36 Upper Transcendents, 72 Middle Transcendents, and 608 Lower Transcendents.
Even though this was supposed to be the Middle World, something was bugging Vali a lot because, according to the information they had gathered during the past week, including the ones from the interrogation of one of the high-ranking members of the Transcendent Church, this shouldn't be really possible.
"We need to do something about the Transcendent Church..."
In a certain part of the Anjleimaun Federation, Vali, together with Rias, Latia, Kuroka, and Belatrix, discussed what they learned about the Middle World and the Transcendent Church and what they should do about it.
Although the members of the Transcendent Church itself were powerful, far more than average mortal humans, even though they possessed some supernatural powers, they also possessed ordinary fleshly bodies.
They can be killed by marksmen or even by ordinary people if the average believers of the Transcendent Church were rather unlucky.
So, it was clear that the deities of the Transcendent Church were not giving much power to mortals, but at the same time, they were investing enough power to elevate their blessed ones above the masses of common humanity, making a difference.
It was highly possible that the leading deities of the Transcendent Church were far above the limits of the Middle World. No, it wasn't possible; Vali was sure that it was the truth because he was suspicious about this entire world.
And when he noticed that he had to put a lot of effort into the soul searching of some members of the Transcendent Church, he realized that they were very powerful, more powerful than the limit of the Middle World should allow.
It seemed that any plan that Rias previously planned to implement in this world, were right now being thrown out of the window.
"I propose we launch an invasion and lure them out, no matter how strong they are, they should be below the Tier 12, or else they would have long ago attacked the moment we entered this world. With the Crusading Forces of the Ecclesiarchy, we should be powerful enough to overwhelm them with relative ease."
As much as warmonger Vali was, the first solution to the problem for him was the use of the overwhelming military power, which was in the disposition of the Chthonian Empire of Baator.
Due to the influence of the Ecclesiarchy within the Empire, in one way or another, there were many people who believed in the Baatorian Gods, despite the fact that the Baatorians were very well aware of what Godhood was.
This stemmed from their origin as a pure Arcane Civilization in the long past. Yet, the power of the few Gods of the Baatorian Pantheon was above everything that many could achieve in their entire lives, even in the Chthonian Empire of the Baator with all of their resources possible.
For a moment, Rias even contemplated his words because they were at a serious numerical disadvantage and they were in absolute darkness about the true power of the Transcendents of the Transcendent Church.
"I don't know why, but I have very bad feelings around this place... and for such a weird place to appear immediately after Father went into deep seclusion."
Vali and Rias, we were one of the few people in the entire Kadath Universe who knew about the peculiar situation that the Father of All Devils was in.