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"Will you be coming to Moon City with me next?"
At the High Priest's words, Klein half turned and pointed the lantern in his hand at the expanse of solidified gray fog.
"When did you begin trying to open this barrier? Have you found anything?"
He was now essentially certain that the High Priest had only been parasitized. His thoughts were not currently being controlled, nor was he deceiving Klein. Meanwhile, Klein once again asked Medici for the cross, letting it radiate warm, sunlike golden light.
Moon City's Beyonders stared unblinkingly at the Golden Cross in Klein's hand, its light gilding their eyes and faces. They knew this was an object belonging to the Lord, but they also knew it was probably a relic left behind by Him.
This way, whatever the reason, the High Priest could not lie to him.
High Priest Nim said frankly:
"At first, it was the Lord's divine revelation. He told us to try to find a way through this fog while guarding it."
"After the land was cursed, we made this our main direction in our search for hope, but we never achieved any substantial results. Whatever method we used, this solidified fog never reacted..."
At this point, Nim hesitated.
"It wasn't completely unresponsive, but the response wasn't what we wanted."
Klein suddenly saw hope. Keeping his speech at its normal pace, he asked:
"What kind of response?"
Nim said, "Over seventeen hundred and thirty years ago, faced with the cruel reality that Moon City's nearly two thousand years of attempts had yielded nothing, the High Priest of the time had an inspiration."
"He felt that we shouldn't simply treat this fog as a barrier to open or a seal to break through, but as a great existence."
"He devised an honorific name,