The church in the Fishing Village was tiny, just an ordinary, run-down local church. Perhaps because of the Fishmen's rampage, blasphemous and evil symbols and writing now covered its interior. The All-Seeing Eye hanging behind the pulpit had been completely destroyed.
Even the benches that had once stood inside had been smashed to pieces and piled haphazardly around the room.
Yes, that was probably the work of the big Fishman from earlier.
"This is going too far..."
Looking at the desecrated, ruined church, Sophia spoke uneasily. She had been an ordinary person before all this and had never imagined anyone would commit such an outrageous act of sacrilege against a Holy Lord Cathedral.
"Altar, Altar, Altar... Ah, over there! How do we open this?"
Katie eagerly approached the Altar behind the pulpit and examined it with curiosity. It was made of stone and looked extremely solid. Perhaps that was why it had escaped destruction.
"Is there some kind of mechanism?"
Sophia came over as well and studied the Altar as she spoke.
"I remember Mr. Harold activated some sort of mechanism when he took me to the Secret Chamber..."
"Mechanism, mechanism... Ah, I can't find it. What a pain!"
Katie inspected the Altar from top to bottom but still couldn't find any mechanism, so she reached out and grabbed it.
"Miss Katie? What are you doing?"
"Hm? Checking underneath. Maybe there's something under the Altar."
"But it's very heavy..."
"It's fine, it's fine. Heave-!"
As she spoke, Katie gripped the Altar and hauled it upward!
"Creeeeak-!"
With a piercing screech of metal scraping against metal, Katie forcibly lifted the Altar. Sophia could even see steel bars connected to its underside twisting and bending, letting out shrill screams.
"Whoa! Miss Katie, underneath! Underneath!"
"Underneath?"
Hearing Sophia, Katie instinctively hoisted the Altar