"I didn't expect an organization like that to exist."
Shade thought for a moment, then softly thanked Tifa as she topped up his glass with red wine:
"Come to think of it, I've been through so much over the past year, but I don't think I've ever encountered this kind of traditional demon."
Miss Danist took on the task of educating the students:
"You truly can't find them in the Material World anymore. However, some Ring Arcanists with Purgatory Creature bloodlines do live in the Three Great Academies. One theory holds that demons, like the Dragons living on Dragon Island, are now hiding in some sealed space and waiting to return. But the Material World absolutely does not welcome their return."
The Mist Crow Brotherhood had extremely ancient origins. Miss Danist even believed they were a branch of the Ancient Dark Order. There were quite a few High-Ring Arcanists in the organization now, but its actual scale was not very large.
This was not because they were unwilling to expand, but because genuine "demon worshippers" would always inexplicably emerge within the organization—people who worshipped Ancient Evil Spirits. Every time that happened, it caused severe internal turmoil within the Brotherhood.
Thus, although they were powerful and had a unified goal, they had never grown stronger amid the cycle of infighting—purging traitors—discovering evil spirits—infighting—purging traitors.
Naturally, the Mist Crow Brotherhood had come here because of the demon matter. But after hearing that it was not a demon but an Ancient Evil Spirit, they feared that interfering too much would draw excessive attention from the Orthodox Church, so they turned their attention to the Chosen Ones instead.
Intelligence shared by the Orthodox Church with the Three Great Academies showed that, somehow, they had connected with The Tyranny Club. Though no one yet knew