"Ah, so it's Miss Dorothea, you startled me."
In the ritual ground beneath the King's Campus, Sister Vanya, who was carefully observing the altar and the mirror moon statue, was startled by a voice that suddenly appeared beside her. She only slightly relaxed after turning around and realizing it was Dorothy.
"It seems Sister Vanya, Captain are very interested in this altar and mirror moon statue." Facing Vanya, Dorothy asked with a smiling doubt, and Vanya responded with a nod.
"More or less, after all, I am a Sister from the Historical Scripture Department, and I occasionally come into contact with research on various altars and mirror moon statues. This altar before me is very special, and it does indeed interest me greatly."
Vanya said this. The duty of the Historical Scripture Department of the Church is to collect, summarize, organize, restore, and research various classics related to the Shining Light Church. Therefore, Vanya has a certain level of expertise in various theological studies centered around the Shining Light Church.
"So, in Captain's opinion, where is the special aspect of this altar?" Dorothy asked, wanting to hear the Church personnel's view on this mysterious altar. If she could clearly understand the meaning of this altar, perhaps she could figure out a little bit about the Eight Point Nest's purpose.
"In my opinion..." Listening to Dorothy's words, Vanya pondered for a moment, then continued.
"In my opinion, this altar has clearly been desecrated. The spider's head and the altar's mirror moon statue are not one entity; they should have been replaced and grafted onto it by those cultists, in order to desecrate the deity originally revered by this altar. The ritual those cultists were performing just now should be part of a desecration ritual. As for what specific effect this ritual will have after it is completed, I do not know. And that spider's head should be the evil god worshiped by these cultists."
Vanya stated her understanding, and Dorothy on the side continued to ask.
"Then do Captain understand this spider evil god and the deity originally worshiped at this altar?"
"The spider evil god... hmm... To be honest, I am not specialized in cult research, and I don't have deep knowledge of otherworld religions and otherworld gods. The institution within the Church that specializes in handling otherworld affairs is the Holy War Army; they know more about otherworld religions.
"However, regarding the deity originally worshiped at this altar..."
Saying this, Vanya began to examine the surroundings of the altar, carefully scrutinizing the decorative patterns and carvings on it, her expression becoming exceptionally focused.
"This altar has a very strong Shining Light Church color, and it's in a very ancient style, many years old. From many aspects, it seems to be an altar dedicated to a Shining Light Church deity, but the problem lies with this goddess mirror moon statue, which is not any of the Three Saints. I suspect... this is probably a mirror moon statue of otherworld people."
Vanya told Dorothy her thoughts. Listening to Vanya's words, Dorothy also slightly furrowed her brow.
"Captain think this goddess mirror moon statue was erected by a Shining Light Church otherworld belief?"
"Yes, that's right. Among some otherworld people in the Church, there are those who erect idols other than the Three Saints to worship, claiming that this is the true incarnation of the Radiant Savior. It is possible that this goddess mirror moon statue is one of them.
"Since our Historical Scripture Department is sometimes responsible for handling some dangerous apocrypha, I actually know quite a bit about otherworld beliefs like these. I have also seen some of the otherworld idols they worship, but I have never seen an image of a mirror-holding goddess like this... Based on the age of this altar, I speculate that this might be an ancient Church otherworld branch."
"An ancient Shining Light Church otherworld branch?"
Listening to Vanya's guess, Dorothy murmured to herself. Listening to Vanya's analysis, it seemed to make some sense, but upon a little thought, something felt wrong.
'That's not right. From the Spirit Sight regarding this mirror moon statue's message before, this should be a goddess with'Shadow' Spirituality, while the Shining Light Church is 'Light'. How could a god with'Shadow' Spirituality become the object of a Shining Light Church otherworld belief?'
Dorothy couldn't figure out the answer to this question for a while. Regarding this mysterious Mirror Moon Goddess belief, Mr. has already been able to deduce several key points.
Firstly, this belief once widely existed in Prit, and later seemed to collectively migrate to the East.
Secondly, this belief seems to have some connection with the Shining Light Church, suspected to be an otherworld belief of the Shining Light Church, but strangely, this goddess seems to be of the'Shadow' attribute, which is opposite to the Shining Light Church.
Thirdly, for some unknown reason, this goddess seems to have been targeted by an evil god related to spiders. The Eight Point Nest seems to be able to gain some 'influence' by desecrating these abandoned mirror moon statues.
Dorothy summarized the information about this mirror moon statue in her mind, organizing several points of doubt and key points, trying to deduce some clues, but later, due to the lack of clues, she did not deduce any effective information.
'Phew... Forget it, thinking about this is useless for now. Let's quickly clean up the scene and leave.'
Taking a long breath, Dorothy thought this. So she quickly searched the battlefield on this floor of the ritual ground again, obtaining another pile of Corpse Puppets. From the Black Rank who served as Claudius's substitute, she obtained two Silence Charms and about 50 pound in cash.
Afterwards, Dorothy, Vanya, and Naifnis gathered and quickly left the scene, exiting the ruins through the secret transmission passage of the Book Repair Society. After leaving the ruins and returning under the night sky, the three immediately parted ways. Dorothy promised Vanya and Naifnis that after she had organized and appraised all the spoils, she would give them some.
After parting, Vanya and Naifnis took a car to the City, while Dorothy did not rest. She seized the opportunity to enter the school, sneaking into the office of Andrew, the An Yin Bureau observer at the King's Campus, whom Claudius had impersonated. She then plundered it again. After directing a Corpse Puppet to ransack the office, Dorothy obtained 150 pound in cash and a secret transmission.
After plundering the office, Dorothy returned to her home at 17 Green Shade Town, then quickly took a comfortable bath. After changing into her pajamas, she sat down at her desk.
After sitting down at her desk and resting for a while, Dorothy, following the usual practice after a large operation, began to organize the consumption and gains from this operation.
First, the consumption. In terms of cash, Dorothy really bled this time.
To ensure the operation went smoothly, Dorothy's preparations for the operation against Claudius were very expensive, costing almost all of Dorothy's cash savings. Buying information about the Vampire cost 350 pound, buying equipment for the Corpse Puppet construction team cost 100 pound, buying the antidote cost 120 pound, and buying gas cylinders and a steel sword cost another 70 pound. As a result, when she ran out of money later, Dorothy was forced to pawn the gold and silver utensils she had collected before.
In total, Dorothy spent about 640 pound in cash for this operation. At that time, Dorothy had 250 pound in cash left after buying things.