In Trier's Holy Light Cathedral, twenty-seven priests in clerical robes stood around the altar, gazing solemnly at its summit.
Several months had passed, and Holy Light Cathedral had completely changed. The originally soot-blackened sections had all been replaced, and the stained-glass mosaics had likewise been replaced with religious stories from the Church of Light.
The abstract Sun Scepter symbolizing the Eternal Blazing Sun that had once stood atop the cathedral had long since vanished, replaced by an enormous cross. If there was any flaw, it was that the place on the altar meant to hold a symbol of God had remained empty.
Now, Sno placed a pale golden cross upon the altar. As it was secured in place, he tapped his chest four times. This time, however, he did not make the Aurora Society's inverse cross of down, up, right, left, but an upright cross of up, down, left, right.
"Lord that Created Everything, true reflection of Degradation of True Self, Bearer of All Suffering, I pray for Your hearing, I pray for Your gaze, I pray that You bestow Your divine grace..."
As Sno recited the prayer, the priests gathered in a circle all made prayer gestures. These Oracles and Saints who had gathered from all over the world began praying in near-perfect unison.
Young or old, clear or hoarse, their voices converged as one. As wave after wave of prayers spread outward, people throughout Trier faintly began to pray as well. As the prayers gathered, the golden cross upon the altar seemed like metal being gradually heated, emitting a blazing white radiance.
The light grew brighter and brighter. Throughout this process, everyone in the Church of Light could clearly sense a gaze piercing through space and descending upon this place.
The cross now seemed to have been forged