Inner Strife
For a long time, the Divine Envoy had been regarded as the person whose sole duty was to convey the Goddess's messages. Whenever the faithful wanted to hear the latest news about the Goddess, the first person they thought of was the Divine Envoy. Unlike the Saintess, whose image served as a symbol, the Divine Envoy was considered the person closest to the Goddess.
Today, the Saintess had asked the Goddess a question and received a reply, but the Divine Envoy denied that she had spoken to the Goddess. Then the Saintess turned around and denied the Divine Envoy's claims, even publicly questioning whether he could really hear the Goddess speak... Wasn't that the same as accusing the Divine Envoy of faking it all along?
"Now this is interesting," Blondie said, clapping. "One faked it today, the other fakes it every day. Looks like they both know exactly what the other's been up to."
"You think they really can't communicate with the Goddess?"
"I don't know about before, but they definitely didn't communicate today," Xu Huo said.
Judging by the reactions of the others, the Goddess statue had answered the question posed by the Saintess. But in truth, the statue had remained covered in eyes the whole time, unchanged from before the Saintess spoke. The psychic fluctuations coming from it had actually originated elsewhere: near the players the Divine Envoy had pointed to at random. There really had been a player answering in the Goddess's place, just not the one he had indicated.
They seemed well practiced in this routine. The only question was whether the temple often used this trick to fool the faithful, or whether they had resorted to it because the Goddess had recently gone missing and they had no other choice.
Now that the