Chapter 678: The Road in the Fog

The four major churches had assembled a huge fleet at the border of the civilized world—and they had been doing so for some time now.

The reduction of regular patrol fleets and the massive accumulation of ships, personnel, and supplies near the Eternal Veil had reached a scale that could not be concealed from the City-States on the border, and Lukrecia had learned about these unusual actions of the church from Sala Mel well before today; however, Duncan and she could not comprehend the purpose of such—until now.

The truth of the dead gods, the real purpose of the Pilgrimage Ark, and the current state of the gods entering "the corruption phase" prematurely allowed Duncan to finally guess the purpose of those fleets.

"…We are 'searching for Them'," Helena finally spoke after a moment of silence, "That was one of the purposes, the initial one."