Chapter 225: Temple Run (2)
"What did Lady Maria say about Adrian?" Henry Johnson asked one of Maria’s followers.
"Keep up the security protocols. We can’t take any chances."
Henry sighed. He had already been informed that they had turned Adrian away from the gates and ensured that he had left the premises entirely. It didn’t make sense to deploy even more guards for a risk they had evaded.
’To make things worse, we even had to remove some guards from the hidden facility just for patrolling.’
In the eyes of the public, the open dungeon was a temple. However, it wasn’t the true. It was a secret facility built for Lady Maria to increase the goddess’s influence over the mortals.
However, mere tales of love and kindness weren’t enough to make the populous believe in the goddess. Only fear could make them believe in the goddess. That’s why they had been training mindless warriors away from the prying eyes of the DRA.
These mindless soldiers were like ticking time bombs, trained to ensue chaos everywhere they went. They would cause terror attacks, which would be thwarted by none other than Maria’s Holy Celestial guild.
In this way, they would force the people to believe in the goddess and increase their influence over the world. That was Maria’s ultimate goal. What she had planned after that was a mystery even to someone as devoted as Henry.
Not only that, the temple also housed many relics along with rare ores and minerals that couldn’t be found anywhere on Earth. One could say these were the backbone of Maria’s new operations.