Richard had been following the administrator and the strangers who had secretly entered the Mine. At last, he discovered who they were and what they were after.
They were all cultists, members of a cult called the David Cult, which had countless ties to the Bront Mining Company.
The cultists had come to the remote Centralia Town to summon an Evil God inside the Mine.
Richard was a man with a strong sense of justice. He also felt that this was a trial set for him by his mother's body, so he decided to stop the cultists' summoning ritual.
However, the cultists weren't in a hurry to begin. They hadn't yet found the best spot in the Mine.
At the same time, they were wary of Richard, an outsider.
After all, it was strange for a writer to suddenly settle in a remote town like Centralia, especially one that relied almost entirely on mining.
Realizing that he had aroused their suspicions, Richard started acting like a lunatic and stubbornly refused to leave town.
After keeping him under surveillance for a long time, the Mine's administrator concluded that the man really was insane and stopped paying him any further attention.
A year passed this way, and the cultists finally found the ideal spot in the Mine: the location of the door.
The location had been revealed to them through a mysterious vision received by a highly respected prophet of their faith.
The David Cult had secretly recruited a senior executive at the Bront Mining Company as a member. With that person's help, they were able to get past the administrator and enter the Mine.
Otherwise, the Mine was the mining company's private property in those days, and the workers even had plenty of firearms. Anyone who tried to force their way