Central Cathedral


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The Central Cathedral (セントラル・カセドラル), officially known as the Axiom Church Central Cathedral (公理教会セントラル・カセドラル), is the gigantic white tower at the center of the Human Empire where the Administrator of the «Human Empire» resides.

Description
The Central Cathedral is a huge, 100-storey square white tower, with mirror-like marble walls, that towers at the center of the Human Empire, within a vast square plot on a hill at the center of Centoria. Despite the fact that it can be seen from everywhere in the Human Empire, no one can see its top because the upper portion of the cathedral is always covered by clouds. The cathedral's square grounds are surrounded by tall walls, preventing anyone from entering the cathedral. The «Immortal Walls» that extend from Centoria to the «Mountain Range at the Edge» 750 kilometers away from Centoria extend out from the 4 corners of the cathedral's white walls. The main gates to the cathedral's grounds are located to the east, likely because that is the direction that Solus (the Sun in Underworld) rises from. A wide road extends from the gate to the actual Church.

The material used in building the cathedral is marble of the highest grade, like the immortal walls that divided Central Centoria as a cross. The walls of the cathedral have the ability to repair themselves if they are ever pierced. The outside of the top of the cathedral has several small terraces that house statues of gargoyles that can come to life and attack any intruders attempting to climb the cathedral.

Background
As Quinella successfully performed more and more miracles, people were persuaded that she was an emissary sent by the gods themselves. Thus, when she reached thirteen years of age, she began to satisfy her endless desire for domination. She persuaded the people to begin construction of the cathedral under the ruse of being a place to worship the gods to bring about even more miracles. A white marble tower was immediately erected at the middle of the village of Centoria, though it was initially only 3 stories high. However, as Quinella gained more and more power and progress was made in architecture techniques, the tower grew in size over the years, until it reached a hundred floors.

After Quinella failed in her attempt to acquire a new body for her soul and accidentally allowed Cardinal to assume a body of her own, Quinella began turning the test subjects she had used for experimenting the manipulation of Fluctlights into absolutely loyal followers with altered memories who were named Integrity Knights. As Quinella had to limit her memory usage to survive, she delegated all of her tasks to the priests of the Axiom Church and the Integrity Knights while she herself decided to spend most of her day in bed to limit new memory input to the minimum, only going out of her room at scheduled times to check up on the management of the world and to participate in the annual religious events. Since then, the cathedral and the Axiom Church was mostly regulated by the highest priests of the church.

Not even the highest-ranked nobles are allowed to enter the Central Cathedral's ground. Only Integrity Knights and priests of the Axiom Church are allowed to do so.

Trivia

 * The Central Cathedral shares the one hundred floor design concept with Aincrad.

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