Chapter 236 Doubts
"Ah, it's Miss Dorothea. I'm shocked."
In the ceremony hall in the basement of the King's Campus, Vanya, who was carefully observing the altar and statues, was startled by a sudden voice beside her. She turned around and found that it was Dorothy, then she breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems that Sister Vanya, you are very interested in this altar and the statue." Dorothy asked with a smile facing Vanya in front of her, and Vanya nodded in response.
"That's about right. After all, I'm a nun in the History and Scriptures Department. I occasionally come across research on various altars and icons. This altar in front of me is very special and really interests me."
Vanya said this. The responsibilities of the Church History and Classics Department are to collect, summarize, organize, repair and study various books about the Luminous Church, so Vanya has a certain attainment in various theologies based on the Luminous Church.
"So, in your opinion, Vanya, what is so special about this altar?" Dorothy asked. She wanted to hear what the church members thought about this mysterious altar. If she could clearly understand the meaning of this altar, maybe she could figure out a little bit about the purpose of the Eight-Pointed Nest.
"It seems to me..." After listening to Dorothy's words, Vanya pondered for a while and then continued speaking.
"In my opinion, this altar has been desecrated. The spider head is not part of the altar statue. The cultists must have replaced it with the statue in order to desecrate the original deity worshipped on the altar. What the cultists just did must be part of the desecration ceremony. As for what effect this ceremony will have after it is completed, I don't know. The spider head must be the evil god worshipped by these cultists."
Vanya expressed her understanding, and Dorothy continued to ask.
"So do you know anything about this Spider Evil God and what this altar originally worshipped?"
"The Spider's evil god... well... to be honest, I am not specialized in cult research, and I don't know much about pagan gods. The organization in the church that specializes in handling pagan affairs is the Crusade Army, and they know more about paganism.
"But as for the deity originally worshipped at this altar..."
As she spoke, Vanya began to look around the altar, examining the decorative patterns on it very carefully, her expression becoming extremely focused.
"This altar is very much of the Glorious Church style, and it is in a very ancient style. It is many years old. From many things, we can tell that this seems to be an altar for worshipping the Glorious Church gods. But the problem is that this goddess statue is not any of the three saints. I guess... this is probably a statue of a heretic."
Vanya told Dorothy her thoughts, and Dorothy frowned slightly as she listened to Vanya's words.
"Do you think this goddess statue was erected by a heretical cult of the Radiant?"
"Yes, that's right. Some heretics in the church worship idols other than the Three Saints and claim that they are the true incarnations of the Radiant Savior. It's possible that this statue of the goddess is one of them.
"Since our History and Scripture Department is sometimes responsible for handling some dangerous apocryphal scriptures, I actually know a lot about this kind of heretical beliefs. I have also seen some of the heretical idols they worship, but I have never seen an image of a goddess holding a mirror like this...Based on the age of this altar, I guess this may be an ancient church heresy."
"The ancient heresy of the Radiant Cult?"
Listening to Vanya's guess, Dorothy murmured to herself, Vanya's analysis seemed to make some sense, but after thinking about it for a while, she felt that something was wrong.
"That's not right. Judging from the previous messages about this statue, this should be a goddess of the 'shadow' spirituality, and the Radiant Light Cult is the 'lamp'. How can a 'shadow' spirituality be the object of worship of a Radiant Light Cult heresy?"
Dorothy couldn't think of an answer to this question for a moment. Her husband had already come up with several key points about the belief in the mysterious Mirror Moon Goddess.
One is that this belief was once widespread in Putin, but later seemed to have migrated en masse to the East.
The second is that this belief seems to have some connection with the Luminous Religion, and it is suspected to be a heretical belief of the Luminous Religion. But the strange thing is that this goddess seems to have the "shadow" attribute which is opposite to the Luminous Religion.
The third is that for some unknown reason, this goddess seems to have been targeted by an evil god related to spiders, and the Eight-pointed Nest seems to be able to gain some kind of "influence" by desecrating these abandoned Mirror Moon statues.
Dorothy summarized the information about the Mirror Moon Statue in her mind, sorted out several doubts and key points, and tried to deduce some clues, but in the end, there were too few clues, so she didn't deduce any useful information.
"Huh... Never mind. There's no point in thinking about this for now. Let's just clean up the place and get out of here."
Dorothy let out a long sigh and thought so, and then she quickly searched the battlefield on this level of the ritual field again, and obtained a pile of corpses. From the black level who served as Claudius' substitute, she obtained two Silence Talismans and about 50 pounds in cash.
Afterwards, Dorothy, Vanya and Nefernis gathered together and hurriedly left the scene, and got out of the ruins through the secret passage of the Book Repair Society. After leaving the ruins and coming out under the night sky, the three of them immediately parted ways. Dorothy promised Vanya and Nefernis that after she had sorted out all the spoils and estimated their prices, she would give them some.
After parting, Vanya and Nephthys took a car to the district, but Dorothy did not rest. She took the opportunity to enter the school and sneaked into the office of Andrew, the person Claudius pretended to be, the security bureau's observer in the overseas campus. She searched the office again, and after directing the corpse to search through the boxes, Dorothy got 150 pounds in cash and a secret book.
After searching the office, Dorothy returned to her home at No. 17 Greenshade Town, took a quick and comfortable bath, changed into pajamas, and sat down at her desk.
Dorothy sat down at her desk and rested for a while. Then, as usual after large-scale activities, she began to sort out the expenses and gains of this activity.
First of all, in terms of cash, Dorothy spent a lot of money.
In order to ensure the success of the operation, Dorothy's preparations for the operation against Claudius were very costly, and almost all of Dorothy's cash savings were spent. She spent 350 pounds on vampire intelligence, 100 pounds on equipment for the zombie construction team, 120 pounds on antidote, and another 70 pounds on gas cylinders and steel swords. Later, when she ran out of money, Dorothy was forced to pawn the gold and silver utensils she had collected before.
In short, Dorothy spent almost 640 pounds in cash on this activity. At this time, Dorothy still had 250 pounds in cash left after buying things.
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