As her spirituality spread toward the prayer light belonging to this member of the Witch Church, the prayers in Angel's ears immediately became clear.
Helene, Tia, and William had already reached Azshara, the capital of Lenburg, but official Beyonders had come and arrested them right after they mailed me a letter. Apparently, they were to be sentenced to exile, yet their destination was the tower in the city center, the Church of Knowledge's temple?
After listening to Tia's prayer, Angel frowned, unfolded the letter she had just received, and skimmed it, confirming the contents of the prayer.
But that only made her more puzzled.
Ever since it had passed her the clue about "0-01" through Tia, the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, which preached in Lenburg, Segal, and Masik, had shown considerable goodwill. It seemed very eager for Angel to take this Sealed Artifact away and end its millennium of sealing and guarding it.
But if that was what it wanted, the Church of Knowledge should not have arrested Helene. It should have treated her well and volunteered information about Molora, the City of Exile, and then...
...The City of Exile?
A flash of realization struck Angel. Her eyes swept over the letter again as the additional clues Tia had provided through prayer echoed in her ears.
There was no city called Molora within Lenburg...
Yet it occupied an important place in the information describing "0-01"...
Helene had been taken away by the Church of Knowledge just after mailing me a letter...
They seemed to have deliberately let Tia and William go, arresting only Helene, a Sequence 5 of the Hunter Pathway and the most suitable person to approach "0-01"...
*That church demigod had announced that Helene would be exiled, but her destination wasn't outside Lenburg. It