Kaius's words were like a stone tossed into a still lake, sending ripples spreading outward one after another.
Different expressions appeared on the faces of every examinee in the hall. Some were surprised, some fell silent, and some were bursting with excitement.
After hearing this, Lanchi himself froze for a moment.
When he first heard the words "Wilfordism," he had instinctively thought of his own merchant guild, which was teetering on the brink of collapse.
But as he listened further—
It seemed this was the method they had used to deal with the Saintess of Destruction in the Shadow World of the Sanctuary Villain's Banquet.
Even without guessing, Lanchi immediately understood who had lent his surname to this ideology!
What he had never expected was that one day, this ideology would be passed on to the Rebirth Church and then used by them in reverse—even against him personally.
"..."
Grand Priest Kaius stood there quietly, his sharp gaze sweeping over everyone as he tried to catch the slightest hint of wavering or abnormality in their eyes.
This was an ideology of extreme evil. Even without carrying it out, merely explaining it might make any lurking enemies waver first and reveal a flaw.
Many of the examinees in the hall had never heard of this so-called "Wilfordism," but they soon understood the purpose of this second assessment.
Among the modern world's various understandings of the gods, many doctrines held that the gods now existed on the conceptual side.
They could not directly interfere with the mortal world, or else needed extremely stringent conditions to do so. Those conditions were related both to the gods themselves and to the living beings they needed to interfere with.
No one could determine the exact conditions.
But regardless of what conditions had to be met,