Chapter 264: History
As he was thinking, he browsed through the books on the shelf. Information was necessary. He needed to know the inner workings of the gates and why they functioned the way they did. Too busy with Marta and David, he hadn’t been able to do a proper scope of the matter.
Architects.
That was his biggest hint. In half an hour he read through a hundred books. The Greek Kazi found the title "Architect" many times. The term architect was mentioned specifically with Athena and the gods that led the parts of the White Abyss.
’Athena allegedly goes to a gate after it is complete and is able to steal the inventory of dead players.’
Athena oversaw the House of Wisdom and yet nobody had seen her in a long time. Kazi tried to find the specific source for this whole rumour about Athena taking stuff from the corpses of players. He flipped through a hundred more books and journals. Every statement on Athena’s theft traced back to the beginning of the Heavenly Era.
’But reality cannot be denied. The weaponry of old players is indeed recycled. In the Hall of Players, you see the weaponry of some of the dead players. Not to mention there is a huge black market for old weapons in the Underground. So someone is bringing the weapons back and...’ Kazi flipped through a couple pages. ’It might not just be Athena either.’
The Underground was as its named suggested: an underground society in the Nebulous Bazaar that hosted the worst of the worst. Somehow, this place was where half the lost weapons of previous eras ended up.
’We have Thoth’s remarks on Cain and now Athena who is said to bring back inventories for the Hall of Players, which contradicts the black market in the Underground. Either Athena is for some reason going against the Architects, she is allowed to do this which would contradict her personality, or another Architect is selling it. Out of the three possibilities, two times the Architects aren’t on the same page. There’s discord.’
Where there was discord, there were differing ideologies. What was the hierarchy, the structure of the Architects that caused this discord?