But just as everything was advancing in an orderly manner.
The religious conflicts across the European continent became increasingly intense, and the religious turmoil gradually deteriorated local law and order.
Finally, in May 454 AD, the Eastern Orthodox Church's Shepherd Leader publicly denounced Pope Patrick as a heretic.
Thus, an empire civil war triggered by religion broke out.
In fact, all of this had long been traceable. Territorial disputes between the Eastern and Western Empires were constant, and now with no rival, the national war machine longed to be restarted, thus the conquest of the Eastern Empire became a consensus.
A month later, a large-scale war was launched in the name of the 'United Empire'.
