The Technological Church was a mysterious organization that rose across the land after the Crimson Moon incident. It had once been regarded as a powerful organization on the same level as the Eclipse Research Institute. Its name contained the word "technology," seemingly signifying a firm belief in scientific principles, but in truth, the impression it left on people was one of mystery and terror, constantly revealing horrifying truths beneath a normal surface.
For example, an electric lamp was something reassuring and familiar.
But the electric lamps created by the Technological Church always possessed the ability to make people intensely obsessed and lose their sanity.
In its earlier days, the Technological Church had been rampant and arrogant. It sent missionaries wandering in every direction, gathering scattered settlements and groups of wanderers across the land and bringing them back to the south batch by batch. Sometimes, it even attacked the High Wall Cities.
The relatively southern Qinggang region had once become one of their targets, and large numbers of residents were abducted.
It could be said that the Technological Church's initial impression was of people dressed in white robes, carrying glowing crystal balls as they walked ahead. Wherever they went, everyone who encountered them seemed to be bewitched, abandoning everything and following after them...
Mysterious, insane, distant, yet seemingly capable of appearing right before one's eyes at any moment...
That was the impression the Technological Church had always given people.
However, in recent years—more precisely, beginning around a dozen years ago—the Technological Church had suddenly changed its style.
It had become more mysterious and more powerful, yet also much more low-key.
It rarely made any more major moves that affected the world. It seldom showed itself even in ordinary times, merely lying dormant in the south.
No one knew why the Technological