As players spent more time active and ranged farther afield, more and more factions were uncovered.
There were two with relatively plentiful intelligence that Yang Yi was also fairly familiar with: the Radiant Holy Church and the Fire Worship Cult.
The Radiant Holy Church was based in the Holy Capital, located at the center of the Sea of Miracles and surrounded by towering walls. It could be entered through the Gate of Glory.
Some players had approached and taken photos. It was a magnificent, glittering gate that reached almost to the sky, carved with elaborate ornamentation. Seeing it up close was suffocating.
It did not look like something humans had made, because humans had no need for such an enormous gate.
The gate was always left open a crack for ships to pass through, effectively turning it into a checkpoint.
No players had managed to sneak into the Holy Capital yet, and what lay inside remained a mystery.
Meanwhile, players were also exploring ways to advance to the Extraordinary level. Joining a religious order was one of them, so players had put together recruitment guides. The Great Newspaper had compiled this information and placed it under Faction Intelligence.
The Radiant Holy Church, for instance, was probably the easiest religious order to join, and it also had the widest presence in the Sea of Miracles.
Joining simply required paying money. Anyone who entered a church and paid could register as a believer and receive a blessed Radiant Goddess Statue as proof of their faith.
Most players did not put any faith in the thing, though. It did not even have system information and was nothing more than a cheap wooden carving, without even any arms.
Moreover, statues bought at different churches differed slightly. They were very likely hand-carved by the people