The power filling Ryan's heart, a force that did not belong to the mortal world, dimmed after only a few seconds.
The sun in the sky above Monarch City also became one again. Ryan stood once more inside the Imperial Palace, and the gazes he faced were now entirely different. Hildegard had naturally become the new ruler because of the Holy Relic spear, which showed just how much awe this world held for that seemingly innate power.
What Ryan held was not merely an incomparably powerful weapon, but ancient authority.
Because of his unfamiliar identity, no one knew what to do.
Setting down the Spear of Longinus, Ryan said to Hildegard:
"Your power is already secure. The Holy Flame Empire's stability is only a matter of time. But I think the Sun Sect won't allow their faith to be unable to spread in this world."
Ryan was not speaking without reason. Through intelligence from the Shadow Vanguard, he had learned that the Sun Sect had been anything but quiet in secret lately.
In the lands of the South, they could not defeat Ryan's army or Adriana's Authority of Faith. In the north, Alistair, who had cooperated with them, had also died at Hildegard's hands. The emergence of this monarch had been completely outside the Sun Sect's plans.
Both south and north had suffered setbacks, and the Sun Sect no longer had any manpower left to continue resisting.
For any other force, this would only count as a deathbed struggle, but religion was different.
A religion's transcendent power came from Deities, and the Deities had not been affected by the wars between mortals in this world.
And from the information available so far, that unfamiliar great existence wanted to reign over this world. Chi's only tentacles were the Rune Jinn and