"I-I-I-I'm not ready!" Veronica panicked! "This is too fast! Are you sure it will be safe for us to enter the Ruined Temple when it is filled with so many people who hate our guts?!"
"You are correct to assume that our entry into the Compact will be met with opposition, both overtly and covertly." Cynthia honestly stated. "There will be interlopers who shall challenge our right to take command over their Shrines. This is nothing new. The Compact is not as great as it used to be. With the preparations that I have made over the years and the resources that we have obtained from our initial trade with the Red Ocean, a gap has already formed between myself and the cultivators who have devoted much of their lives to obsessing over past glories."
