Gaining Allies Against Expectations

No one knew if Grant's soul could be saved in the Void by the Voidwalker that was currently asleep. However, it was a fact that the Church had felt the impact of the Voidwalkers' 'sucker punches'. One of the three was not precisely anticipated — not even by the most calculating Voidwalkers.

More bad news came to the Pope's attention, almost causing the man to suffer a cardiac arrest. If he had not received many years of religious training, the man would have already lost his cool and flown into a rage. 

Even if he did lose it, could he be blamed for that? The Church had just lost a fifth of its supplies; its fort, which was not even a day old, had been destroyed; its armories and a good number of its soldiers had been decimated in a lone wolf terrorist's suicide attack. The Church had suffered massive losses. Most of its mercenaries, which its noble allies had hired, were dead, and to add insult to injury, the Church had yet to meet its enemies in a frontal clash!