"The Church wants to participate in this Imperial action?" Perfikot stroked the bear skin beneath her while stepping on the specially preserved bear head, a playful expression on her face: "It's possible, but I'd like to know the reason."
Though she spoke this way, Perfikot could actually guess the reason. The Church simply hoped to use this opportunity to purge or at least organize the heretical sects in the colonies.
After all, in the past, supported by the Empire's official power, the Church had always been the Empire's most mainstream faith faction, conducting missionary activities both in the Empire's homeland and colonies, accumulating a considerable foundation of belief.
But the arrival of the apocalyptic winter not only severed the connections between the Empire and the colonies but also robbed the Church of control over its colonial branches.
Now that the Empire has decided to recover the colonies, how could the Church not step in to recover its branches?
