Gawain's Idea

At the Cecil Empire's highest Administrative Hall, Gawain sat quietly in a high-backed chair, pondering the new intelligence Daniel had sent under the bright morning sun.

After the previous exploration of Phantom Town ended, the upper ranks of The Sleeper Cult had indeed grown more nervous about the potential changes lurking within Sandbox One. Not only had they convened another archbishop meeting, but they had also carried out a series of reinforcements and "disinfection" measures on the network. According to Daniel's judgment, the cult was likely working harder in the real world to control the changes in Sandbox One as well.

That Phantom Town had been listed as a key monitoring target. Since it might contain crucial information about Sandbox One, The Sleepers had not reset it. Instead, they had used technical means to seal and isolate it, preparing for further exploration.

The investigation into the church of the "Upper Narrator" had already begun. It seemed traces of budding faith had been found in previous sandbox monitoring records, but there were very few traces. It was now basically certain that Sandbox One had collapsed first, and only afterward had the church of the Upper Narrator formally taken shape. This gave Gawain some new conjectures about the formation process of that "suspected god."

No evidence had yet been found that the "suspected god" within Sandbox One could extend its power beyond the sandbox, so it was impossible to determine whether a "god in a dream" truly counted as a god. Yet Daniel had vaguely sensed something from the attitude of Megall III, the pope of The Sleepers: that pope regarded the "suspected god" within Sandbox One with the same extreme vigilance he would have reserved for a true god.

Gawain curled his fingers and lightly tapped the edge of the desk,