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Loen Kingdom, Backlund.
At that moment, inside Saint Samuel Church, the Red Gloves were anxiously gathered around the affected Daly Simone.
The abnormality lasted about fifteen minutes. Kneeling on the ground with her body bent low, Daly Simone, who had been pressing her forehead in pain the entire time, finally lowered her hand slowly. Rubbing the ring on her ring finger, she said with lingering fear:
"Those voices have stopped. Things seem to be back to normal."
"Normal?" Leonard asked, somewhat surprised.
He looked up at the distant sky again and felt that the unnatural dark clouds were still there. They had yet to dissipate.
"Perhaps it's intermittent?" Soest hesitantly offered his guess. "What were those voices you mentioned?"
Rubbing her temples, Daly said with a frown:
"They sounded like a crowd of people praying... and like someone was speaking to me... The voices formed visions. I saw a complex of buildings very much in the style of the Balam Empire, people praying, and a voice kept telling me to kneel and submit. I had no choice but to recite the Goddess's name..."
Struck by an idea, Leonard hurriedly asked, "Could this be the Numinous Episcopate's doing? You mentioned Balam-style buildings, and as far as I know, there's a very strict hierarchy within the Corpse Collector pathway. Considering your pathway, Miss Daly, I suspect you might have been affected by someone of a high sequence in the Numinous Episcopate."
Soest, who had been about to speak, swallowed the speculation on the tip of his tongue and praised him. "That makes a lot of sense."
"This sort of situation is rare. The Church will certainly investigate it thoroughly. Perhaps we'll have an answer soon."
The elderly Parasite chuckled.
Leonard immediately pricked up his ears, waiting for whatever scraps of information