A few days later, surprising news arrived.
"The Church doesn't seem to have any intention of hiding." Miles had only just gone out to scout when he returned to Cru Town and reported to Benjamin. "The latest news is that Grant has led people into a mountain village to the north called Carl Village. They haven't blocked the news, so believers from all over the country are gathering there now."
Benjamin frowned at this.
What did this mean?
The Church might have been feeling somewhat cornered, but they would not flee to some tiny mountain village. If they wanted to gather their strength for a desperate final stand, they should at least choose a major city, where they could fight with the advantage of walls and terrain—not like this.
Had they already... given up?
"That village..."
"I know what you mean." Miles nodded and finished Benjamin's thought. "It's that village—the legendary hometown of Cain and Abel. I don't know why the Church is doing this, but you'd better be careful."
Benjamin was somewhat puzzled upon hearing that.
Wait... he seemed never to have heard that legend before?
"It is a rather unreliable rumor. Even the Church never wrote it into its own Bible, so I never mentioned it to you," the System popped up to explain. "Legend has it that thousands of years ago, there was a village called Carl, one of the few human settlements of that era. Two brothers were born there and led humanity toward the future... and so on and so forth. Yet after thousands of years, seas had turned into mulberry fields, but the little mountain village was still a little mountain village, unchanged. Nor could anyone find any trace of the two brothers within it."
After hearing this, Benjamin thought for a moment and