Even a rabbit pushed to the wall will eventually bite.
Besides, for reasons unknown, the Zodiac families refused to listen to the pleas of the Highlanders cries for help.
Since it had come to this, they had no choice but to lean towards the olive branch extended to them by the Holy church.
The church did not even need to give fancy promises, only that they would stop the Vandora kingdom and make them pay for their atrocities.
That was all it took for the Highlanders to willingly decide to jump on the saving boat that was the Holy church.
And then came the use of the Mirror egg.
This item was said to be from a creature that could offset divine energy.
Divine energy was the energy used only by those that had achieved godhood.
It was energy that interacted with the very laws of the world, bending and molding it at it's foundation.
It was energy beyond anything this world currently had.