Everyone's Being So Clingy! / Feng Jin, the Dark Tide Spreads to the Divine Wisdom Tree Court

But now—Phainon and Mydei had only been gone for half a day, yet the Citizens' attitudes had changed completely!

They were so enthusiastic that the two of them could barely handle it.

"The Citizens' Assembly—I remember that being a meeting for voting and resolutions. How could it bring about such a huge change? Just what did Hua Yi do?!"

"Lady Aglaea has uploaded everything that happened at the Demigod Council to the Myrial Network, where it will be permanently preserved as a glorious moment for Okhema. Once you've had a good rest, you may view it yourselves."

Mydei and Phainon could only accept reality in a daze.

Having received Nikador's guidance, they had fought until exhaustion before choosing to return. Right now, they truly had no strength left to investigate further.

Yet the short journey from the edge of the city to their residence was enough for them to glimpse the bigger picture. Whenever passersby saw them, they stopped to offer greetings before busily returning to work with remarkable vigor.

Patching roofs, repairing windows, sweeping streets, carrying all manner of crates...

The whole of Okhema was thriving, leaving Phainon and Mydei momentarily lost in thought.

They nearly had the illusion that if soldiers of Strife were to attack the city again, the Ordinary People who had once been hopeless and helpless—who could only stay where they were and pray, or frantically hide and flee—would howl as they charged at those stone-carved creations they had once feared beyond measure.

Perhaps it was not an illusion.

"Hua Yi..."

Murmuring that person's name, Phainon smiled.

"He really is amazing."

Mydei still wanted to keep a straight face. As the crown prince of Kremnos who had endured countless brushes with death, being cared for like a child by old soldiers was, to some extent,