The Healing Church's Origins

After several seconds of silence, Eldin sighed and spoke bluntly.

"They were an expeditionary force from the Holy Grail Church."

"Back then, they united several factions and captured this fortress."

"Then they subjected every survivor inside it to unprecedented abuse and humiliation, driven by utter madness."

Eldin clenched her fists. "A bunch of people who claimed to stand for light and justice..."

"In the end, they were consumed by their own desires while tormenting the weak..."

"The irony is sickening!"

Evan nodded in understanding. "Now I get it!"

"But wasn't the Holy Grail Church from the Third Era?"

"The Old King of the Moon replaced the Third Era in the Fourth Era, didn't he?"

"Shouldn't the Holy Grail Church have disappeared completely?"

"You underestimate how faith and desire get passed down," Eldin said.

"The Holy Grail Church of the Third Era did come to an end, but its successor remains powerful to this day."

Evan's eyes widened slightly. "You mean... the Healing Church!?"

Eldin nodded. "Yes."

"After the great cataclysm of the Third Era, the Holy Grail was sealed deep within the vast Holy Grail Labyrinth for some reason."

"The surviving believers of the Holy Grail Church relied on that labyrinth and the various Beyonder powers they obtained from it."

"As it happened, terrible plagues broke out across the world near the end of the Fourth Era."

"Mental mutations, Beastification, corpses rising from the dead..."

"The first believers seized that opportunity. They used those powers to treat ordinary people at the bottom of society and rose rapidly."

"Over time, many former factions of the Holy Grail Church gathered within this new religious organization, which eventually became today's Healing Church."

Eldin looked Evan in the eye. Once she was sure he was still listening closely, she asked, "You've heard about the