A few months earlier, Pamela arrived as promised to remodel Schiller's garden. Though she was mainly altering the plants, the garden's overall structure needed changes as well. It was then that Schiller discovered his estate came with a cellar beneath it.
Of course, at the time, it was just an ordinary cellar. But after seeing it, Schiller had a rather extraordinary idea.
When it came to the strength of protagonist plot armor, Main Universe Batman was undoubtedly the strongest. After all, the world revolved around him, and he would certainly be the main force against the Laughing Man later on.
That made warning him about certain dangers the highest priority. Relying on messages passed through the magical community was clearly unreliable, since most mages were useless at everything they tried, and Batman was not particularly skilled at deciphering cryptic, mysticism-laden riddles.
Schiller needed a more straightforward way to warn him. That was how the Four Pillars God sacrificial plaza Batman had seen came to be—it had been built in Schiller's own cellar.
There were no owls in this world, and naturally no Owl Maze either. But Batman did not know why this world had no owls, so they might as well pretend it did.
Schiller was no less capable than Bruce at playing an owl, but he took a different route. The owls under Bruce's leadership were a highly efficient, legitimate corporation, while the owls Schiller impersonated were a cult through and through.
Schiller also had quite a few professional personas in religious studies. The bishop mentioned when he had moved house was one of them.
In his previous life, Schiller had used religion to conceal his identity and achieve his goals. But his disguise had not merely been something he threw together. Or rather, the disguise had only been