They Are About to Awaken

December 24th. In Apalis City, the annual Festival of Light of the Divine Eagle Federation was about to arrive. As the most important of the legal holidays, every major city in the Federation had begun making preparations for grand celebrations.

Of course, it was not only the Divine Eagle Federation.

Across Origin Star, in the Old Continent and other places reached by the faith of light, similar spectacles were taking place.

Especially with a recent rumor: on the day of the Festival of Light, the Lord of Light would reveal a Divine Miracle to all believers.

During the century after the Spirit Tide was cut off, major organizations and official authorities had continuously weakened the influence of the Mystic Side, denying and concealing it.

As the most powerful Master Level deity of the Mystic Side, the Lord of Light had gradually been portrayed as unreal, merely a collective delusion—a god created by religion. There were no true gods in this world, and those mysterious incidents were all fake.

But over the past year, the tide of public opinion had begun destroying those fixed notions.

Ordinary people on Origin Star had also gradually begun to realize that beyond the Real World, there was another "Mysterious World."

The various authorities no longer concealed it, instead offering explanations through certain special means.

The smarter and more perceptive members of the public had already guessed something and begun taking proactive action. Most of them would fail, but some lucky ones had emerged. They became Contactees as they wished, then quickly transformed into Transcendentals.

All believers of light were looking forward to the "Divine Miracle" on the day of the Festival of Light.

But in Apalis, the atmosphere was somewhat different. An incomparably grand food festival was being held here, with barely any trace of