"Grand Arbiter..." Mo Qiong quickly recounted everything that had happened in the Underground City-State.
Including the fact that Quette fundamentally didn't believe in gods, and that Quette himself was trapped inside his own Contained Object... and so on.
Kelon said weakly, "Is that so... The Gaia Church won't let this go. Soon—no, quite possibly today—they'll launch a frenzied attack on the Deep Sea Prison."
"Why?" Mo Qiong asked.
Kelon said, "Because we've already wiped out their headquarters, causing them extremely heavy losses, and they've been almost completely exposed. If they don't take a gamble now, they'll only grow weaker until we wipe them out entirely. In other words, today is when they have the greatest chance of rescuing Gaia!"
Mo Qiong asked in confusion, "No, I'm asking why they still want to rescue Gaia? Their archbishop has already seen through Gaia's nature. She wants to destroy humanity, including her own followers."
Kelon smiled. "Not everyone thinks like Quette. Don't underestimate the faith of a thousand-year-old organization. Their beliefs may seem laughable to us, but I want to say this... they truly want to atone for humanity."
"Frod saw through Gaia, but he still chose to assimilate his own thoughts, making himself forget that resurrecting Gaia would mean suicide. Why? Because what supports them in continuing isn't Gaia, but the belief in rescuing Gaia."
"It's a belief their ancestors have made countless sacrifices for, generation after generation."
The Gaia Church had a history of more than two thousand years, and most of its core members had inherited their positions through family lines.
The current members of the Gaia Church were all descendants of the scholars from the Geomancy School back then.
In particular, they had lived in a closed environment for a long time since ancient times, working in isolation on