He had now been cast aside.
After swiftly cutting ties with the "prime culprit," the Pope moved on to the second topic on the agenda: how to quell the public outcry and salvage the Church's crumbling image.
In the past, they would simply pin all the blame on the one being judged and then wait.
Time was a useful weapon; it could wear down anything.
People would gradually lose interest in what had happened. They would eventually come to believe that the "evil" individual who had been judged was the cause of it all and had already received their just punishment.
This only worked as long as no one kept bringing the matter up.
"Have the Mammon Sect members been dealt with?"
"They've been dealt with."
"Are we certain they were the ones who released the video?"
"We are. The corresponding Magic Crystal Stone was found in the Magical Device they used, and it matches the cultists' confessions."
"Could their memories have been altered?"
