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“Oh, what can we do?” sighed Anthony with a mix of relief and worry. “The Gods of Light have yet again received credit for the miracle, despite it actually been a miracle performed by our master.”

Anthony knew he could convince the clergy members since they clearly understood there wasn’t a god in their pantheon that provided beauty treatments and financial gains, let alone the distribution of Elf Beans.

However, the general public was ignorant of this. Even if they knew, they didn’t care. They believed that the god they worshipped was omnipotent, and this would only strengthen their faith.

Out of the six to seven hundred thousand inhabitants of the City of Light, less than a hundred thousand were clergy members. The rest were ordinary citizens, some believers, others merchants, craftsmen.

Regardless of their occupation, after this miracle had occurred, the God of Light saw a surge of five to six hundred thousand fervent and devout followers.

The miracle’s scale and number of witnesses were far beyond any other miracles in recorded history.

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A majority of believers never had the chance to personally experience a miracle in their lifetime. They became believers after hearing repeated stories about miracles happening elsewhere. These people are often considered ‘casual believers’, having made a habit out of their faith, unobtrusive and not essential to their lives.

Among the believers, some have experienced the effects of divine arts, have seen pure Holy Water, had minor illness and pain cured – but that’s usually it.

In this world, extraordinary power is not uncommon, ranging from magic to fighting spirit, alchemy, enchantment, potion making, forging, and many more. Such miracles were not so astonishing and miraculous that people were left in awe.

Only particularly incredible and inconceivable phenomena could become revered as miracles. However, over the past thousand years, the number of miracles granted by the God of Light could be counted on one’s fingertips, and many of these were fake.

Don’t think creating fake miracles is difficult. With illusion technique, the miracles produced are indistinguishable to the average believer.

But there was never an occasion in the City of Light where a miracle was experienced personally by the hundreds of thousands of people all at once.

Let alone hundreds of thousands, even achieving a few tens of thousands was difficult.

With this event, however, those hundreds of thousands of people turned into devout believers. When any of these individuals recall the moment the miracle happened, they will uncontrollably become ecstatic with faith unwavering.

Having hundreds of thousands of such believers is more valuable than tens of millions of casual believers, simply because they firmly believe in their god and will never doubt like the casual believers do, wavering and feeling insecure in moments of uncertainty.

If a group of zealous believers emerged from them, they could even alter the entire power hierarchy of the gods.

Like how Oke defined the Barrier of Light and the Burning Vision, and the castrati singer Senlide defined Rebirth, the role played by a zealous believer is substantially greater than tens of thousands of casual believers.

Now, the number of believers who have experienced a miracle has increased by hundreds of thousands, and they firmly believe the miracle was bestowed by the light.

Oh, what to do about this – it’s a headache.

Negris, however, felt empathetic. “Such a large-scale miracle, how much divine power did you have to use this time? You are not running at a deficit, right? You cannot afford such consumption.”

Negris knew too well the cost of wielding divine techniques. Whether it was for growing hair, making one rich, or creating Elf Beans out of thin air, all required the utilization of divine power. ‘Becoming beautiful’ was even more astounding. If the Goddess of Beauty Fist had to be used, the divine power consumption would be in tens of thousands and would require rest for a month or two.

A miracle involving hundreds of thousands of people, how much divine power would that consume exactly?

Ange shook his head, “The power of light. Healing the devout, ignoring the insincere, no loss.”

After some thought, Negris understood what Ange meant, “Are you saying you harnessed the power of the Divine Aspect of Light? Only those who are devout would be healed? So the strength offered by the devotees exceeded the power spent, which means no loss to the Divine Aspect of Light?”

Ange nodded in agreement.

“Wow, you’re aware of cost management now, knowing you can’t be running at a loss.” Negris couldn’t help but commend him. He immediately came to a realization, “You can wield the power of the Divine Aspect of Light?”

Ange scratched his head, unsure how to explain.

In the Consciousness Space of the Divine Aspect of Light, all forces belong to the Aspect. The rules of their operation are also determined by the Aspect. He just manifested some divine spirits.

The god represents the rules. These rules, when corresponding with the rules of the Consciousness Space, result in miracles.

Saying that he could harness the power of the Divine Aspect of Light is simultaneously accurate and inaccurate, as this ‘use’ is indirect.

If he did not have so much understanding of the rules from the gods and sub-aspects, he would not be able to manifest them in the Consciousness Space. If the faith shadows do not correspond, miracles would not occur either.

This knowledge was from the Dragon God. Ange understood it himself but how should it be explained to others? That was difficult.

Seeing him scratching his head, Negris knew what it meant and thus sighed. “Alright, alright, I won’t ask anymore. Be careful, so that your head does not explode due to overthinking. Can you still harness the power of the Divine Aspect of Light in the future?”

Ange nodded, then spread out his arms.

In the space behind him, the Ring of Balance appeared and his arms extended into the Equal Cross, forming a complete Libra.

“Hmm? You have formed the Libra God Statue?” Everyone gathered around, giving a thorough inspection to Ange’s new God Statue.

“Indeed it’s an Equal Cross, a wonderful object. In the past, His Majesty found this thing disgusting and hence was unwilling to interact with the Gods of Light. He would have beaten them to death with his fingers otherwise.” The Great Sage commented.

Indeed, it was quite disgusting. If the Undead King punched it, he would burst, too. Only a fool would be willing to perish with the enemy.

Of course, there were ways to handle it if someone still wanted to attack it. For example, throwing a duplicate over. But the Gods of Light back in the day posed no threat to the Undead King, so the King didn’t bother.

When the time came to clear out the gods, the King gave the command, and soon only a few remained.

While everyone was researching the Equal Cross, a red light suddenly permeated from an unknown source.

This was the core of the Holy Kingdom, where the Trinity of the Divine Aspect of Light was bound. How could light possibly penetrate in here?

Everyone speculated for a while and guessed that it might be light from the outside. Consequently, they all returned to the temple site together. At the moment, the entire Holy Kingdom was being covered with a thin layer of red light, with the glow coming from the void outside.

Looking through the transparent barrier of the Heaven, a red luminous sphere was seen appearing in the void, casting a vibrant red light that illuminated the whole expanse, the Holy Kingdom and the slender Eternal Road.

“Is it getting closer? Why do I feel it is getting brighter?” Durken asked, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

Negris nodded, “Yes, it’s approaching at a high speed, and the red light is intensifying. The penetrating power of this red light is extremely strong, so we can see it in this closed core, but ordinary people can’t see this red light. The goblins call it infrared light.”

“Why would a red light suddenly appear?” The Great Sage asked in bewilderment.

Everyone pondered for a while. Suddenly, a thought flashed across their souls: “Faith Storm?!”

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