In fact, very few people knew that Crystal Sacred Mountain, Asuman, contained an immensely vast and mysterious inner space, guarded throughout human history by an ancient gatekeeper. Everyone qualified to enter Asuman's interior was at least a Bishop-level figure of the Creation Goddess Sect, and since ancient times, only the pope had been able to communicate with the gatekeeper and freely open or close Asuman's various halls.
The gatekeeper silently opened a gate of light. The edges of the gate trembled several times before stabilizing into the form of a teleportation passage. On the other side stood a crystalline hall filled with a faint glow. Pope August VII gave the gatekeeper a slight nod before stepping through.
The teleportation passage shook and closed. August VII had arrived in Asuman's interior, in the "Astrology Hall." It was a pyramid-shaped space, with its four walls gradually converging toward the center before meeting at a single point atop the hall. A massive white Crystalline Body hovered high there, emitting a low hum. Mysterious runes and images constantly moved across the walls and floor, and only a small portion of them could be understood by humans—the result of thousands of years of research by the sect's wisest scholars.
Most of Asuman's inner spaces were pyramid-shaped like this one. The only differences were their size and lighting. It had taken countless generations of scholars to decipher the names of some of the halls, yet they had no idea what those halls actually did or how they operated.
The space before him was called the "Astrology Hall."
"Astrology Hall" was the name inscribed on the entrances and exits leading from this place to other areas, so there was naturally no doubt about it. Yet the church's scholars had always been baffled: judging from its name, this