"Are you not even pretending anymore?"
When the people from the Scientific Giant finally appeared, everyone's expressions turned cold.
They had already been anxiously wondering how to reach that obviously suspicious altar and drag out the inheritor. They hadn't expected their target to show up on their own.
And when they did, the scene was almost comical. At the head of the group walking over from the Scientific Giant's altar were two people carrying the Briefcases used by investigators and wearing standard-issue trench coats.
They stood out unmistakably among the miners and the people dressed in Copper Text Church robes.
They might as well have announced their identities outright...
The so-called Scientific Giant was just a group of investigators from Azure Harbor. But when they looked at the two in front, one was a slender man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and the other was a dark-skinned, muscular man. The suspicious inheritor was nowhere to be seen.
Still, confirming that they were investigators was enough...
"The Copper Scripture Holy Text allows no heretics. No matter how they got in, seize them at once!"
"Don't give them the chance to disrupt the Copper Scripture Holy Text..."
"..."
At Grand Sacrifice Songchai's quiet words, the people around him, who had long been itching to act, were immediately roused.
Most of them belonged to minor cults. They weren't even qualified to build an Acolyte altar; they were there merely to take part.
They didn't dare hope for the High Priest position, either. But if the opportunity arose to capture the Scientific Giant and seize its Acolyte altar for themselves, then after the Copper Text Church rose to prominence, they might be able to claim territory of their own and have a say in things.
The other major sacrifices, meanwhile, quickly surveyed the group. They were