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Naturally, Noah, far away in the Royal Capital, had no idea what was happening within the Nazarick Underground Great Tomb.
It was not that Albedo and the others had failed to report to Noah via Message. Rather, Noah had instructed them beforehand that if anyone from the Slane Theocracy came to investigate, they were to capture them and use them as leverage in negotiations with the Slane Theocracy.
And naturally, the subject of those negotiations would be the Magic Sealing Crystals.
According to the intelligence obtained from the Sunlight Scripture, Noah had learned that the only people in this world capable of using an item like Magic Sealing Crystals were those from the Slane Theocracy.
They were treasures of the Slane Theocracy. Only the Theocracy's upper ranks possessed them; no one outside the Slane Theocracy had Magic Sealing Crystals.
It was said that these Magic Sealing Crystals were treasures left behind by the Six Gods, who had descended upon this world several centuries ago and become the Slane Theocracy's objects of worship.
Why had the Six Gods possessed magical items from YGGDRASIL?
That was what Noah wanted to know.
For that matter, Noah needed to prepare some means of negotiating with the Slane Theocracy.
During the interrogation, every member of the Sunlight Scripture, one of the Slane Theocracy's special intelligence units, had already died.
Using resurrection items on these people did not seem worthwhile.
Therefore, Noah concluded that the disappearance of the Sunlight Scripture would surely draw the attention of the Slane Theocracy, which had previously been monitoring its members with intelligence-gathering magic, and that