The Gaia Church was the oldest evil cult on Earth.
They had been active throughout history since the days of Ancient Greece, devoted to unsealing Gaia.
The doctrine they preached back then was that Gaia had created the world and humanity, but humanity was sinful. As Gaia's descendants, humans had rebelled against their own mother, sealing her beneath the earth in the dark abyss known as the Tartarus Abyss.
This was the original prototype of Greek mythology. Later, countless myth-makers took the core concept of "rebelling against one's parents" and imagined that the rebels were gods as well. Since the rebels and Gaia were all family, this gave rise to countless fantasies about patricide and imprisoning one's mother, eventually evolving into Greek mythology.
In short, over two thousand years ago, Gaia had not been sealed beneath the sea, but underground!
Furthermore, she had been divided into three thousand pieces, scattered across every corner of Earth.
To save Gaia, they had to gather her body. And to gather Gaia's divine body, they first had to find one of her divine artifacts: the Gaia Ark.
The Gods and Demons could cross between universes and guide the development of other civilizations through a sort of intermittent, feeble mental communication, but they alone could not communicate with life on Earth.
According to their deductions, this was because the rice cookers contained their own source essence. Although the gods were trapped inside them, they could still use divine power and magic, which they then transmitted to other universes in an extremely feeble form.
However, divine power and magic could not spread on Earth.
The only one who could communicate with the people of Earth was Gaia, because her main body had been divided into three thousand pieces and suppressed underground. Under those circumstances, she could