When Naraku saw Isabelle again, she had already emerged from the secret chamber in the library.
Several Church warriors were still guarding the chamber door.
"How did the search go?" Isabelle asked in a deep voice.
"We opened the secret chambers according to the markings on the map you gave us." Naraku shook his head. "Some of them had already been opened, while others had not... But we found nothing."
Isabelle frowned.
Naraku continued, "However, we discovered an opening in the pit struck by the Main Cannon. We sent people down to investigate and found some fresh footprints... There's also a huge hidden space deep underground. The Rose Count may still be alive."
"An underground space?"
"There are traces of an artificial gate being opened!"
Isabelle lightly tapped her fingers on the table, deep in thought.
The Divine Blessing Church on Laputa had been reorganized from the remnants of the Church that had fled back then... The former Divine Blessing Church had nearly lost all its elite forces in the battle fifteen years ago. Even the previous pope had died in that great war.
As a result, many secrets of the Divine Blessing Church had truly become secrets with no one left who knew the answers after the previous pope, who had been unable to evacuate, died... including the whereabouts of the Myriad Element Ore Mother, their greatest achievement.
As for Elohim, the current pope of the Church on Laputa, he had only become the new pope after the Church was reorganized on Laputa... Of course, Elohim's position in the Church had not been low before that. He had even been one of the few people with real power beneath the previous pope.
Elohim was also the chief person in charge of the hybrid project... He belonged to the former