Industrial Lovecraftian Horror: The Island Lord's Genesis
Chapter 655

Gwen's Confession

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This time, Theus obtained more information from the connection than from all the previous ones combined.

First of all, he had successfully connected to Beatrice.

The Pope of the Candlelight Society and the Empire's new Empress greatly interested Theus. Unfortunately, after connecting with her last time, she had done nothing but mutter meaningless gibberish, making communication impossible.

Theus had thought something had happened to her and had even been preparing to secretly warn Zoe.

Yet she had unexpectedly recovered this time.

As for what she said about becoming a [Named One] through a ritual, as well as the matter of Bruno the Great Sage, he could only find a way to verify them.

Castel had not possessed any information on this before, but things were different now. The entire Silent Temple was staying in the Church.

Especially Patriarch Ignati, who spent every day touring various factories and buildings, dragging Gwen and Nora along with him.

Over the past few days, Theus had even heard that priests of the Silent Temple had asked the Faithguard Army for copies of the Empire Truth Holy Scripture to read.

In any case, the Silent Temple was one of the four great Churches. There was bound to be a record of something like the [Named Ones], who had once affected the entire continent.

Theus's heart burned with excitement. The problem that had plagued him for so long finally seemed to have a chance of being resolved. He immediately planned to return, but just as he shifted into a more comfortable position and closed his eyes, a call suddenly echoed in his heart.

"Wait!"

"Hm?" Theus paused. "You are... Little Gwen?"

"You don't have to insist on adding 'Little.' I've always been Gwen. How come after that Gwen appeared, I became the little one?"

"All right,

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