From Hadecaine’s Yukline castle, Yeriel sighed as she looked up at the solitary moon hanging in the dark night sky.0

"Are you worried about your brother?" Primien asked.0

"No? I was thinking about the future political situation," Yeriel replied, narrowing her eyes and looking back at Primien.0

Yeriel, going over all the political situations—the continent's state, the rampant spread of the Altar's revelation, and the nations, one by one, being swayed to its influence—was contemplating the path Yukline should take.0

"This time, a suppression order was issued from the New Church, wasn't it?"0

Empress Sophien only forbade the unauthorized publication of the revelation and religious incitement. The phenomenon of territorial inhabitants infatuated with the Altar leaving the Land of Destruction—also known as population outflow—was left to the discretion of their respective territories.0

"Forcibly stopping isn't always the most effective course."0

The Altar suppression order, declared directly by the pope, adopted a very strict stance, threatening excommunication for uncooperative nations. The Empire, Leoc, Yuren, and most other nations on the continent, who had believed in the New Church for generations, would now respond vehemently, and the Scarletborn would naturally be caught in that maelstrom.0

"Another witch hunt will begin once more," Yeriel concluded, as she turned toward Primien.0

"Leoc's gas...0