Arriving to reclaim Europe
Europe, Italy.
In all of Earth, the Holy Church was probably the richest and perhaps the strongest faction in general terms.
Although the religious faction covered much less territory than other factions such as the Transcendent faction stationed in China or the United States of America faction, the number of survivors that this faction had was by no means inferior to the other two.
Furthermore, leaving aside the low-level manpower, the number of soul evolvers that had joined the army exceeded 5 million and of those over 5 million about 100 thousand had managed to become Second Order soul evolvers.
Before he fell, Israfel foresaw that within another two years the Holy Church would have over 10 thousand powerhouses who had already surpassed level 100; Third Order soul evolvers.