@Doomer
@HDMI1
Don´t forget they were made to pay war reperations.
It was a pretty common practise to have the aggressors pay the defenders a
LARGE sum off money after a war was over if it was "unjustly" started.
That said, history is written by the winners so if the agressors won it was rare for them to actually pay up asuming the country was not assimilated in the first place.
Besides what more would you have them do ? enslave / take over a whole country because a few religious leaders were corrupt ?
That would never fly and country wide rebellion / another war would start in a few days and is likelly something they don´t want to deal with.
As for the holy spirit...
They killed it sure, but becouse it came back it's likely that nobody cares too much about it anymore.
And as far as the other leaders know/can prove the pope did not even know about anything going on.
And its not like they can publicly accuse a religious figurehead without proof.
If the guy who ordered the attack tries to blame it on her, she can just say that its slander and/or its a way for him to avoid taking all the blame.
The elf thing would have been the perfect time to blackmail her if anything, but they don´t get much more out of it at this point anyway...
Still an option for the future however...
Not that the MC would be OK with that unless they can convince him that she is evil somehow.
This seems to be a pretty light hearted story tho so it's likely author just did not want to deal with it any further then this.
But yeah its kind of silly.