Tide, the Holy Light Church, and the Truth Empire were the three most mysterious and transcendent powers in Kolo World. Even the most ordinary citizens had heard of them.
Pick any old man basking in the sun on the street, and he could eagerly pull you aside and talk all day about their deeds.
Tide's primary duty was handling all sorts of supernatural incidents caused by supernatural phenomena. It was much like the Mobile Task Forces in Luo Chuan's memories, serving as the main combat force maintaining Kolo World.
As its name implied, the Holy Light Church was a church devoted to the power of holy light. It was the largest organization on the continent and often cooperated with Tide.
The Truth Empire, meanwhile, was the most mysterious of the Three Major Powers. Situated where the continent met the sea, it was a sacred land long dreamed of by countless mages and scholars, for it gathered the most profound knowledge in all of Kolo World. Many magical revolutions had begun there as well.
But strictly speaking, no one had ever truly entered the Truth Empire. The places they reached were merely settlements or cities established by visitors around it.
This mysterious nation was shrouded year-round in dense, undispersing White Mist. Even those who attempted to cross the fog and reach the enigmatic country within would ultimately lose their way in the mist. Ordinary people and Legendary Experts alike were no exception; ordinary magic seemed to have completely lost all meaning here.
In the end, they would somehow wander back out of the fog.
Some claimed they had seen Illusory City Walls and Cities in the mist, cities filled with layer upon layer of Mage Towers, interwoven in ways utterly incompatible with the normal structure of space, like a scene visible