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Early morning, Waves Church.
Alger Wilson, who had come to collect a bounty, heard a rather important piece of news from the diocesan bishop, Jiaogeli:
Laticia Dorella of the Moses Ascetic Order had entered the depths of Symeem Island's jungle under the cover of being an archaeologist.
Whatever she had done had brought the Sea God Kalvetua, who had spent years hiding after suffering grievous injuries, to the brink of collapse. He had begun frantically searching for a chance to prolong his existence.
Rumor has it that long ago, after the Rorsted Archipelago was discovered, this evil spirit calling himself the Sea God was defeated by two Cardinals working with a military powerhouse and using the corresponding Sealed Artifacts. He barely escaped and went into hiding... That situation persisted for over a hundred years without any fundamental change. Why would he suddenly be on the verge of collapse, unable to sustain his existence? Alger frowned slightly, considering what had happened recently that differed from the past.
Did the Moses Ascetic Order deliberately engineer this situation?
But why didn't they do it during the past hundred years?
To coordinate with another plan of theirs?
As speculation alternated with doubt, Alger suddenly noticed an important factor.
The greatest, most fundamental difference between the present and the past hundred years was this:
The World had come to Bayam!
Mr. Fool's Believer had come to the Rorsted Archipelago!
*Does his appearance somewhere mean that something major will happen or is brewing there? First the Backlund Great Smog, then the abnormal events at Bansy Harbor, and now the Sea God Kalvetua's dying struggles and the Moses Ascetic Order's unknown scheme... No, a more accurate description would be that wherever something major is brewing or about to happen, Mr. Fool's Believer will go there! They