"Haha, Saint Alex is right; the two churches have been closely tied since the age of the great founder of our beautiful nation!"
The count played off the matter of him trying to join a completely different faith while living near the very headquarters of the church of wisdom without feeling embarrassed in the slightest.
Alex could also understand his perspective, though.
Before Alex came to this city, the Church of Wisdom was barely even surviving, and its faith was not even known to many people in the city. Only after Alex's careful manipulation tactics have the people in the city started to know about it.
Even then, the faith is still very fragile, as it's still very new and hasn't been stabilized by the test of time yet.
If the church of the goddess one day issues an order to its followers, there will be hundreds of thousands of people who will follow the orders faithfully, and some will even be ready to give their lives for it.
