Within the sacred chapel, a fierce wave of fanaticism swept through.
The peaceful atmosphere was gone, replaced by passionate fervor and an intense impulse of faith.
The light cast through the stained-glass windows fell across the challengers' faces. Their eyes gradually filled with resolve, as though they had been touched by the divine might of the Goddess.
"Praise be to the Goddess of Fate! If I am a damned cultist and traitor, then please guide my fate toward destruction!"
"May the whole family of every Resurrection Cultist and traitor die! Let the Goddess of Fate bear witness! I swear it!"
Regardless of whether they were followers of the Goddess of Fate Church, everyone began imitating Lanchi and repeating his words!
Normally,
no country or priest of the Goddess of Fate would be bored enough to force everyone to declare their praise of the Goddess of Fate in order to prove their innocence.
Nor would they do it simply to disgust the cultists.
That was because such conduct violated the doctrine of the Goddess of Fate Church—the fate of no living being could ever be forcibly controlled.
The Goddess of Fate Church had never had a priest capable of forced proselytization so heretical that it was worse than a cult's.
But under the current circumstances,
the urgency of the matter went far beyond anything ordinary. It concerned every person's life, whether the world would suffer the calamity brought about by the Shadow World's failure, and whether they could capture the cultists endangering the world!
When the greater good was at stake, there was no room to talk about personal feelings or whether something was despicable.
For an innocent challenger, publicly declaring a passage praising the Goddess of Fate before the Shadow World Recording Program would cost them nothing. They could swear