Even outside this era, with Norton in power suppressing the Order Temple, Temple Elders rarely descended upon the confidential offices of Church Headquarters in this fashion.
First, it was out of reserve, as well as to preserve their mystery and detachment;
second, it stemmed from the Order God Church's longstanding political understanding: excessive activity by Temple Elders would only bring harsher suppression and exclusion upon their own families within the church.
That was also why, when Kallen had used the mask his grandfather left him to "play" a Temple Elder's sphere of consciousness descending into that laboratory, the many researchers present had instinctively assumed a Temple Elder had arrived for an inspection. This was how Temple Elders normally operated: they always avoided exposing their divine side before the congregation as much as possible.
There were only two places where they could truly use their power without restraint: when handling the church's most sensitive and difficult matters, and on the battlefield.
Thus, serving as a Temple Elder accompanying a Knight Order was hardly an unpleasant assignment. Within the Divine Temple, they even had to compete for it.
It would have been one thing if Wukongjia had been alone in the world, but he had a family, whose standing was no lower than Xidi's Ponce Families. Yet he... might simply not have cared.
Some people changed greatly after the passage of years, looking back with a sigh at how everything remained while the people had changed; others remained just as they had always been, young until the day they died.
Whether it was his refusal to communicate in the Seal Land, his request for a meeting conveyed through Xideluode, or his arrival at Kallen's door in this fashion, all of it conveyed one attitude to Kallen:
Although he had searched for him