Before today, Yu Sheng had never had a particularly deep impression of the Holy Ascetic Society's danger—he only knew that it was a fanatical extremist group, that they had behaved abominably regarding the Artificial Saintess and the Brass Knight, and that they controlled plenty of advanced technology and occupied their own territory, causing no small amount of trouble for many factions. But when it came to the threat this organization posed to the outside world, he had never truly felt it.
In fact, he had a deeper impression of the Angel Cultists in this regard. After all, the Angel Cultists had genuinely awakened a sleeping Dark Angel, and had nearly blown up The Crossroads...
But now he understood that there was a reason the Holy Ascetic Society could stand alongside the "Angel Cult" and the "Black Dot Group" as the world's three great scourges—even he felt that this society was somewhat more dangerous than the Angel Cult.
Because they were educated. Not only educated, but organized, and even armed with an unwavering action plan!
The Angel Cultists only knew to chant scriptures when something happened. As long as they annoyed the Dark Angel into appearing, they considered it a success. Apart from that, they were utterly disorganized. But those lunatics from the Hermetic Society... They treated angels as research material, intending to create weapons of mass destruction and mass-produce and deploy them! For this goal, they could lurk aboard a ship in the perilous Otherworld for ten years, actively search everywhere for sites of the descent of the Dark Angel, and dance on the edge of a blade right under the noses of major powers like The Crossroads Affairs Officer and the Great Void Spiritual Pivot!
"We'll immediately contact Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, as well as the other factions," Baili