At this moment, in a dim Rock Hall somewhere in the outside world, more than a dozen strange cloaked figures had gathered.
Judging by how they had unconsciously formed several small groups, as well as the different colors of their cloaks, these figures clearly came from several different factions.
"Is this really going to be alright? Aren't we making too big a move? If the commotion is too great and the Empire or the Nation Protecting Four Great Families discover us, our current strength won't be enough to resist them."
At that moment, one of three figures dressed in Pure Black Cloaks and Dark Gold Masks was questioning several mysterious people entirely concealed beneath dark green Hooded Robes.
The two sides respectively represented certain nobles within Gloria and a mysterious cult that had approached them through the channels of certain Prophets and actively proposed cooperation.
The one raising the question was from the nobles' side.
The first step of this plan involved multiple members of the Four Great Families and the Imperial Royal Family. They were deeply worried that this mysterious cult would overplay its hand and fail, dragging them down with it.
Unlike the mysterious cult, which had arranged for numerous strange entities to replace the real subordinates of many important figures in advance before entering the secret realm alongside them—
the nobles had deep roots in the Gloria Empire. If they fled, their losses would be incalculable.
"What a pathetic question. Have the gods been gone for so long that even the might They once possessed has been forgotten by the world?"
In response to the nobles' question, the dark green hood of one cult member shifted slightly. He swept a mocking, disdainful gaze over the three nobles and retorted in a strange, almost alien tone.
A careful