Everyone present was undoubtedly bewildered and astonished by everything Kane had said since his "dazzling entrance." The cultists on the brink of despair gaped in shock, the soldiers who had thought victory was within reach stared wide-eyed in horror, and Fisk, gripping his sword hilt tightly, sweated profusely under the soul pressure of the Legendary tier...
Beside Kane, the beautiful "saintess" Gollania, dressed in magnificent fiery-red robes, stared with shining eyes at the "Prince Charming" in gleaming golden armor.
Perhaps the others could not tell what had happened at the center of the explosion because of the swirling dust, but Gollania had seen it clearly—before she could react, a pale golden Battle Qi Shield abruptly appeared around her as if it had always been there. Then, those terrifying attacks capable of tearing apart mountains became nothing more than a breeze that could not even stir a ripple upon that thin, soap-bubble-like shield.
Then, before the billowing dust could spread, the knight who was "shining" from head to toe appeared before her just as abruptly as the pale golden shield had.
"Um... may I ask whether you were sent by the great God of Red Sands to save her devout follower? Thank the omnipotent Lady of Red Sands. At last, the radiance of the gods has blessed this land defiled by heretics."
Even when faced with Kane, a knight with a strange smile and an even stranger origin, the devout Gollania still thought first of the omnipotent "God of Red Sands" in her heart.
To fanatics, every miracle and every scrap of help, all these "natural" things, surely came from the grace of the gods. So whenever they received any pleasant surprise... there was no need to doubt it. Sincerely praising the god they worshipped could never be wrong.
And that