Mo Qiong certainly had no idea. Who could have imagined that one of the Gaia Church's leaders was actually the person who least wanted Gaia released?
In a sense, he had indeed done the Blue White Society a huge favor.
Although it was unexpected, thinking about it carefully, Quet might have been the most clear-headed person in the Gaia Church.
Side effects could sometimes turn into good things. This had happened repeatedly in the Containment Incidents.
The same was true for Quet. Being blinded by greed was not a good thing in itself, but when someone like that became the leader of the Gaia Church, it turned out to be beneficial instead. Because of him, the Gaia Church had shared decades of peace with the Blue White Society.
It was precisely someone who valued power so highly who had kept his subordinates—the ones who truly wanted to release Gaia—in check.
Over the past few decades, the Gaia Church had indeed caused trouble constantly, but it had always been harmless enough.
It turned out that during many of the disasters in the past, they had not taken advantage of the chaos—not because they were steady, nor because they feared the Blue White Society's strength and acted cautiously.
Rather, it had been Quet who maintained a certain delicate balance.
He needed countless people willing to die for Gaia. They were the church's roots and the meaning of its existence, so the church had never changed its way of life.
But just as Quet had said, the church only needed that goal. It did not need Gaia.
He was a smart man, a clear-headed one. He did not believe in Gaia, nor did he agree with the principles that countless church members revered as absolute truth.
If possible, he would rather let the