The orange-haired nun grabbed the somewhat rotten wooden door, carefully lifted it a little, and slowly pushed it open.
The hinges creaked as sunlight spilled across the weathered floor tiles.
"This church was built by the first immigrants to arrive on Castel Island. Back then, the Candlelight Society was still trying to expand outward, and Moth Chasing Flame was chased around all day. Who would have thought that we'd end up living in their church today?" She walked straight inside. "Come in. Let me show you my latest discovery."
Theus walked in slowly. He had been here many times, but he had never examined the church so closely—the old stone walls, weathered on the outside, with newer white paint on the inside that still could not conceal the gaps between the bricks.
"This is what you were talking about?"
Theus's tone was full of doubt.
"That's right. Come to think of it, we have to thank this time we lost contact with the outside world." Chloe folded her arms across her chest, looking immensely pleased with herself. "It was only when I was checking the anchor point that I remembered: since this place has an anchor point and it's an old church, it might have a Guardian Inscription."
"Then I searched the entire church from top to bottom, and I actually found one!"
Her voice gradually grew excited. "A Guardian Inscription! Do you know how valuable these things are? Since the last White Calamity, the Candlelight Society has been unable to inscribe any new Guardian Inscriptions. They're now as precious as holy relics—every one that breaks is one less. If it weren't bound to the church and impossible to move, they would have sent people to dig it out long ago."
Guardian Inscription? This was Theus's first time hearing the