Deer Isle had been relatively the least affected of all the cities after the prosthetic crisis erupted.
That was because Deer Isle was an extremely xenophobic city. Even their prosthetics were mostly manufactured by their own industries. While some people did use the cheaper prosthetics made in Lotus City, compared to other cities, they were a minority.
Moreover, the transcendent of [Forge] himself came from Deer Isle. Even earlier, he seemed to have spent some time at [Gods Heavy Industries], but that history was far too distant, and much of it had been reduced to hearsay and rumors.
Still, his choice to remain at Gods Heavy Industries headquarters at this time suggested he indeed had deep ties to the organization.
Xu Zhi even wondered whether he had some sort of deal with [Cup].
But if there was a deal, why had It shown no intention of sparing [Forge], treating him no differently from the others?
Yet no matter how she thought about it, it would have been impossible for those earlier events to happen without some kind of transaction between them.
Unless the one who had made the deal with [Cup] was not this proxy, but someone above him, someone with greater power—
a god of the [Forge] Authority.
If that was truly the case, then this proxy was merely cannon fodder beneath the gods' transaction.
Seen this way, whether Archbishop or proxy, they might appear to ordinary people and ordinary transcendents to wield immense power and part of a god's Authority, to be the gods' right hands. But at the root of it all, beneath the gods, everyone was but an ant and a chess piece.
Even if [Forge] and [Cup] had secretly reached some sort of agreement, hadn't [Cup] now directly turned [Forge]'s proxy into a sacrifice just