Chapter 245
After Lancer-Melloi finished his initial introduction to the plan, Sasha returned to Italy, leaving all the detailed work to Lancer-Melloi. The Paradise Fairy pretended to help Animusphia and his daughter take care of Chaldea, and continued the meeting with the Gold Saints who had entered the core decision-making layer because they knew the entire plan.
And now, Lancermello is checking everyone's mission results -
"As expected, ORT is here too." Asclepius, who shared the same vision with Lansemello, looked at the letters Aldiba had sent back to the Sanctuary over the past ten years and summarized the situation in South America. "According to your investigation in Britain, the tombs of spirits and certain special fairy ecosystems also exist - then, what did the Pisces investigation confirm?"
"Wandering in the sea, and confirming the environment of the North and South Poles - although I personally prefer the South Pole." Lansemero put down the letter and picked up another thick stack of survey reports. "I plan to build an anchor here - this has been approved by the world consciousness, and it is part of the reward."
"In this world, the Sea of Wandering should not exist, right?" Asclepius thought of Lansemello's investigation in Britain, "Just like you didn't see the clock tower and the Atlas Court in Britain and Egypt."
"The Wandering Sea is more special than these two places - the interior of the Wandering Sea is a world all on its own." Lansemero turned a page of the investigation report that Abelfica had spent time compiling, "So I suspect it can appear in any world that is related to our roots - after all, you know, because of me, the origin of the earth in this world has become consistent with our world."
"So, what's the result?" Asclepius, who knew very well that the main job the gods had asked him to do was to chat with Lancesmero, chose to skip reading the report and directly confirm the result with Lancesmero.
"No direct witnesses... but found something unusual." Lansemero blinked at the line of Greek letters on the report, "Do you think it's feasible for me to ask them to change the language of the report to Latin? The Wandering Sea should exist. I will go to the Wandering Sea at the end of this year to see what's going on."
"They should be familiar with Latin... You can handle the Wandering Sea on your own." Asclepius' reply was slightly stuck, and he almost couldn't keep up with Lansemello's rapidly jumping thoughts, "What about the exploration of the two poles?"
"Let's go directly to the address in Chaldea." Lansemello smiled and put down the report in his hand. "I think there is no more suitable place than there. Then, next is the problem related to other sanctuaries."
"You didn't prepare the funds for those two?" Asclepius was surprised.
"The communication base and anchor points are for them, but the funds of the Sanctuary are not." Lansemero opened Dieter's mission report and asked Asclepius to call for help. "William should still be resting now... Let him come and help me calculate it. Considering the expenses of those French people, we must at least think of a way to make this money more."
"But, to be honest, I really can't think of what the Sanctuary needs money for." Asclepius glanced at the report held by Lansemello, and sank into the depths of his consciousness to call out to William, who had lifted the seal earlier than Ereshkigal, "Why do you think they must have some money?"
"It does feel like nothing now... but the next Holy War will be at the end of the 20th century." Lansemello paused for a moment and gave his answer, "The Fourth Holy Grail War will be around the same time - although as long as you don't establish too many connections with ordinary people, there's basically nothing to spend money on..."
"But the future Athena is in Japan. Velvet first started to incur debt in order to go to Japan to participate in the Holy Grail War. Although the Saints can consider teleporting directly, that future..." Lancermello sighed helplessly, "If it is an illegal entry like teleportation, it will be very troublesome."
"Travel expenses and passports cost money."
"Then the more reasonable thing to do is to start a side business." William, who had run his side business so successfully that people later believed that criminal consulting was his main business, heard Lansemello's words and gave a feasible direction, "If this money is used for business at least... in two hundred years, it should be able to run a giant enterprise - well, the key is to have a unique feature to attract people to buy."
"Like haute couture?" Lansermero, who only had a few uniforms to change back and forth, gave an example to confirm with William, "Do you think Dieter is capable of doing this job?"
"He should be the most suitable one among this group of people - don't you remember their names?" William was recalling the strange intelligence he had collected in order to deduce the future direction of the Sanctuary's business operations. "But I thought you would let him teach Shion astrology?"
"I am not suitable to go out to the outside world, just like in Animusphia in the past - unless necessary, all my actions do not represent the inclination of astronomy." Lansemello turned the page after confirming that William had finished reading the content of this page, "And astrology - oh, the name Chaldea represents more than just our observatory. "
"Sisiphos is not suitable to be in charge of negotiations with the outside world." Asclepius commented harshly on the actual spiritual leader of the Saints. "I guess you are planning to let him assist Shion? But he will probably leave the Sanctuary earlier than others... Am I right?"
"That's it - let William draft the business plan, and I'll make some arrangements inside the Sanctuary first." Lansemero flipped through Dieter's report and began to arrange the future movements of the Golden Saints, "Let Libra and Aries come back first - let's talk about something directly related to the Sanctuary."
By the time this long meeting was over, it was already late at night. Dohko, who was in charge of guarding the Demon Star Tower, had just returned to the Pope's Hall. Before he even sat down on the chair, he was asked to leave immediately. Shion, who was lucky enough to sit down and continue to participate in the meeting, was confused by the sudden rapid progress of the meeting.
So, when the meeting was over, Shion, holding the Pope's triple crown, couldn't resist his curiosity and asked Sisifors, who was assigned to teach him, about what happened in the meeting after he left - but was decisively rejected by Sisifors.
Dieter, who was still at the conference table, sorted out the meeting notes in his hand, and said with his back to Shion: "This is the only thing I absolutely cannot tell you - by the way, Sisifus will be responsible for most of your next pope courses, but the teacher of astrology has become that adult."
"I have been assigned some additional work - however, I will tell you about this part after I have achieved results."
During the time when Athena was not in the Sanctuary, although the selection of the Saints was basically all handed over to the Pope - but it was not so detailed that even the reserve candidates were selected by the Pope* himself.
The first step in announcing the restart of the Sanctuary is to let all the Saints find suitable candidates to be the successors of their own constellations.
After being told that the future Gold Saints would almost all be self-taught, Aldebaran was the only one among the current Gold Saints who continued to train the next generation as usual. After all, although the number of Saints during this Holy War was large, it had not reached the level of the full eighty-eight constellations in the past Age of the Gods.
"...But, do special armors have to be arranged like this?" Dieter, who discovered the Paradise Fairy on the roof of Aquarius Palace, stopped outside the door of his residence and looked up at Lancermello sitting on the roof. "Pegasus has been a special existence since the mythical age-"
"Even if you comprehend the microcosm, it may not be recognized by the Saint Cloth - but this part also belongs to the fighting power of the Sanctuary." Lansemello raised his face and looked up at the sea of stars, showing a relaxed attitude that he had never had before. "Just like in the sea of stars, in addition to the 88 constellations that we can see with our naked eyes, there are many stars that we cannot see and do not shine."
"But the reason they work so hard is to obtain the holy cloth..." Before Dieter could finish his words, he was interrupted by Lansemelo.
"Effort is the most useless thing - especially on the mysterious side." Lancer-Melloi turned his gaze from the sea of stars to Dietel's face, but he remembered the thesis that was carefully hidden by El-Melloi II as a dark history and criticized to pieces by the past Lord El-Melloi. "The mysterious side originally emphasized the power of blood and talent - the uniqueness of the soul is also a kind of talent."
"You were chosen by the holy garment because you fit the characteristics of Aquarius. They are all relics from the Age of Gods, created by the forging god Hephaestus based on the beings he saw with his own eyes..." Lansemello seemed to have thought of something funny and asked Dieter, "Do you know why Andromeda fights with chains?"
"Isn't it because of the story about Princess Andromeda being sacrificed to the sea monster?" Dieter found the corresponding content in his memory, but found that the paradise fairy sitting on the roof was laughing happily, "Could it be... am I wrong? Although the chain itself was used to sacrifice her--"
"Because Andromeda's fighting method is to swing the chain connected to the huge rock like a weight - the chain itself represents the anger and curse of the sea nymphs." Lansemero sneered, "The never-ending nature is because the sea nymphs used her as a sacrifice, so the chain must be connected to the reef in the sea - no matter how far she escapes."
"Andromeda can never escape the curse that has been determined. You must know that it is never you who choose the Cloth, but they who choose you." Lansemello fell back to the ground, leaving Dietel behind and ran down. "How to appease these people who cannot obtain the Cloth and turn them into the fighting force of the Sanctuary? That is your business."
"But don't ever forget that I am not a human being."
"I am considering you now only because they asked me to do so - so I did what they asked."
“That’s all.”