The investigation continued. This commander's tent seemed to hold quite a few secrets.
This was undoubtedly a moment for the History School to celebrate, and Sun Miao had far more drive than Cheng Shi.
She quickly searched every corner, turning over everything in the tent that could be searched. Before long, she made a new discovery: a... diary? She had found it in a drawer in the sand table.
No, it looked more like an observer's logbook. It didn't record Kainlaur's daily life, but that of the other two Chief Judges, Loart and Essares.
It meticulously documented when these two highest-ranking figures in the Grand Inquisition "paid homage to God"—in other words, the regularity of their visits to the Iron Rule of Order.
Sun Miao had only flipped through a few pages before looking up and saying:
"Something really has gone wrong with Order. Even its followers have started avoiding it.
I know about the Grand Inquisition's rotating system for Chief Judges, and I know that reporting everything to the Iron Rule of Order is considered the most devout thing a judge can do. But according to this log, Loart reported to it constantly, while Essares did so only occasionally. Put their schedules together, and there wasn't a single time slot left for Kainlaur to report to it.
"So... Kainlaur must have realized long ago that something was wrong with his Lord of Grace, and deliberately avoided contact with Order?
"But what could have changed about it to make one of its closest followers no longer want to approach it?
"The Lawful Compliance Faction's guiding principle has never been to distance itself from Order. You could even say its followers are the ones on this continent who most want Order to spread to every corner of the world. So if