Though the May Wind had been polluted, it at least proved the existence of the New Continent.
This Ocean Overlord immediately exerted pressure, leaving other forces struggling to fight back.
It didn't take a genius to figure out that although the Right to Protect currently only pertained to religious affairs, the moment one gained authority over Church appointments, law enforcement, and taxation, every colony of all nations would instantly have a supreme ruler above them.
Wouldn't it be easy for the Kingdom of Castile, through the layman priests they controlled, to interfere with other ecclesiastical states?
As the bottom line receded step by step, wouldn't it eventually evolve into a winner-takes-all scenario, with someone casually drawing a Church Meridian, directly partitioning the whole world?
The string in Byron's mind, which had never slackened, immediately tensed up again.
He quickened his pace subconsciously.
"There's no time to lose.
