"Please give me your instructions."
Then,
The Goose Quill fell silent.
So did Kallen.
He sat there for about ten minutes, meaning both sides remained silent for ten minutes.
But according to what Vice Dean Dawensi had said earlier about the "flow of mental time" in this little room feeling different from outside, it might only have been a short while.
Kallen thought it over.
Although he could not see what was happening in the two neighboring rooms, he did not need to guess to know that the Goose Quills in their rooms would never speak to them like this.
So,
Had this Goose Quill sensed something?
Although his path diverged from the God of Order's, to the point that they could even be called opposing paths,
Kallen could not deny that, on the road of Order Faith, he was following the same pattern the God of Order once had.
Moreover, both he and the God of Order had "returned from the dead," so certain coincidences could arise in some respects.
This Goose Quill was not the original. It was only one of the projections cast by the Divine Artifact, and once he left this little room, the Goose Quill would erase its own memories.
It was like buying a car and asking for fewer features, then fewer, then fewer still, stripping away everything that could be removed until all that remained was a chassis and four wheels.
The Principle God Church called this phenomenon "Mechanical Mode." The phantom Goose Quill before him was Mechanical Mode at its most stripped-down.
It was very difficult to deceive, because its core remained intact, which allowed it to test faith here;
Yet it was also very easy to deceive. If it could so much as open its eyes and take a look, it