Hao Ren felt he had made two mistakes in total. The first was genuinely believing, when Raven 12345 mentioned holding a "ceremony," that this so-called conversion of divine registry was a serious and proper ritual. The second was developing unnecessary expectations toward this unfamiliar Goddess who could chat and laugh so freely with Raven 12345 after seeing Angel Sister—dammit, even someone with gallstones for brains could figure this out. How could someone who looked so familiar with Goddess Shunzi possibly be a normal person?
The Angel Sister serving as the operator finally managed to calm down, though she looked a complete mess. One of her wings was folded behind her, while the other drooped unnaturally and trembled faintly. Even so, she insisted on sitting behind her desk and began performing Lia's divine-registry conversion.
Raven 12345 inhaled sharply as she looked at her. "I'm asking if you're okay... Why don't you go back and get treated first? I can wait for another operator to come over."
"I'm fine, I'm fine. It's just a little cramp. I can power through it with faith—Your Majesty is watching us, after all." Angel Sister spoke with forced composure while her wings shook. "This opportunity is too rare—she's Mistress Icedis's daughter! I'm the one handling her naturalization into the Xiling Pantheon. How many years might pass before I encounter something like this again? How could I let someone else have it?"
Raven 12345 curled her lips. "You didn't have to get so excited that you cramped up."
"What about you? How much better would you have been?"
As they spoke, the procedures were nearly complete. As Lia's identification data was entered, the pillar of light isolating her from the outside space gradually grew thinner, and the figure of the Creation Goddess within it became clearer. Hao