Black Dot Group, Angel Cultists, the Holy Ascetic Society, and all sorts of other bizarre cult organizations—the world was never short of hyperactive civilian groups whose screws had come loose and who had run out to take revenge on society. As several of the most powerful evil factions at the very top of that list, these organizations naturally each had their own distinctive ideas and astonishing specialties. They could not be lumped together.
The Angel Cultists were characterized by chaos and disorder. Their main philosophy was to link their brains to angels and let contamination replace thought. The angel has already burned out my brain, so don't come yapping at me about this and that. Light a candle, scatter some incense, make a cut with a small knife, fall to the ground, and start praying—that was all there was to it. If the Lord won't descend from the heavens, I'll ascend to find Him. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, they sprayed their own faces with blood; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, they sprayed someone else's face with blood; and on Sundays, the angels descended to blow something huge up for everyone. They lived madly and died noisily, with incredible flair.
The Holy Ascetic Society, meanwhile, was characterized by a highly organized, unified goal and extremely successful self-brainwashing. I don't care what you say. I'm the savior. They had conned themselves so thoroughly that they believed it. Beyond that, there was hatred—hatred for the body's fragility, hatred for humanity's dull-wittedness, hatred for the soul's weakness, hatred for the limits of heaven and earth, hatred for the sea drying up and the rocks eroding. In short, they hated everything unsatisfactory about the world, so they might as well blow up their weak flesh together with the world. Their first step was to