Sea Star.
Red Line, RL0001 District.
Location of the World Government Headquarters Building.
Five towering cylindrical buildings pierced the clouds, connected by four aerial corridors.
From a bird's-eye view, they formed the layout of a Five-Circle Cross.
Its grandeur was in no way inferior to Pangaea Castle in the neighboring RL0000 District.
Inside the building belonging to the State Council.
In the minister's office of the Religious Affairs Department, which had only been established in recent years.
Bartholomew Kuma sat in his chair, reading through various reports displayed as holographic virtual images.
The purple-covered Bible rested quietly in the corner of the desk.
This had delighted Christians, one of Sea Star's two major mainstream religions, for quite some time.
The minister of the Religious Affairs Department was one of their own!
However.
After several invitations from Kuma, Fleet Admiral Sengoku of Marine Headquarters had agreed to serve concurrently as deputy minister.
At the same time, Hashirama Senju of Sea Ninja Village had been invited to register as a department-level official in the Religious Affairs Department under his identity as honorary high monk of the Fire Temple.
Of course.
Neither of them handled actual affairs in their daily lives. They were basically just receiving an additional, relatively generous salary.
Oh, and there was also Urouge, who had placed third in the previous Top 100 Tournament.
He was also a Buddhist from Sky Island.
Their presence gave Buddhism, one of Sea Star's two major mainstream religions, enough confidence.
Besides that.
The Religious Affairs Department also managed the Church of Brimir from Zero Magic World, the Path of Peace from Teigu World, the La Baule Faith from Claymore World, and the Vatican from the recently joined State Religion World.
And those were only the religious forces possessing extraordinary power.
The "ordinary religions" in