Although the White-Haired Puppet had escaped, Duanmu Huai had already locked onto its location through the Recon Servo-skull. By rights, they should have stormed over there in one swift push and completely crushed that horde of monsters and demons.
But...
"So why can't we act?"
Faced with Lorena's answer, Duanmu Huai wasn't angry in the slightest. As long as it was a quest, NPCs could always find some strange way to complicate things. He was already used to it.
"I'm truly sorry, Sir Knight. It's a long story..."
"It's fine. We have plenty of time."
I refuse to believe you can talk for an entire year.
Thus, Lorena somewhat awkwardly began explaining the situation to Duanmu Huai.
Simply put... there was a split within the Church.
It could be traced back to some time ago, when demons attacked this country. The Church naturally entered the fray and fought to destroy them. During the intense early stages of the battle, quite a few members of the clergy were injured fighting the demons and lost limbs. They had no choice but to withdraw, and the situation on the battlefield was extremely critical at the time.
But right then, an outsider suddenly appeared. He claimed that he could help those who had lost limbs by making them prosthetics, allowing them to return to the battlefield.
The Church approved that person's proposal. After that, all the clergy who had lost their hands or feet fighting the demons were fitted with mechanical prosthetics and returned to the battle.
It had to be said that these prosthetics were indeed formidable. In the end, the Church successfully drove back the demons through everyone's combined efforts. However... an unimaginable crisis emerged from this.
Among the clergy who had undergone that person's surgical modifications and received prosthetics, many began