Facing the dangerous charge of the Worldburning Demonic Soldiers, Bertie felt from Murphy's scolding that his superior didn't seem to be joking. Somewhat timid by nature, he began praying where he stood, though still uncertain.
The Shadow Elf vampire tentatively called upon Lady Rose's divine name. As a man raised in Shadow Elf society, he knew the prayers to the Spider Lady by heart. From childhood onward, whenever he was bullied for no reason just because he was a boy, whenever some haughty, sharp-tongued woman humiliated him, and whenever he was whipped over some trivial matter and had to tend to his wounds alone, he would instinctively pray to the Spider Lady, hoping that the dark, hopeless life he led might be a little easier the next day.
Not once had his prayers been answered.
Of course, for a long time he had followed Salif Shadowblade in destructive activities that opposed the Spider Lady and the mainstream values of Shadow Elf society. As a result, it had been ages since Bertie last prayed to the Spider Lady.
Just as some rumors claimed, the Spider Lady despised men and wouldn't answer the pleas of filthy men.
But, as Murphy had said, the governor did indeed have some pull with Lady Rose. So, the moment Bertie began to pray after changing allegiance, he received an answer.
The problem was, that answer was a little too "generous." It seemed Lady Rose intended to make up for everything she had previously denied Bertie, all at once.
A vast quantity of information about the Spider Lady's newly developed "reality editing" divine arts flooded into Bertie's skull like a tidal wave. The process was anything but gentle, as rude as a development team dumping a pile of spaghetti code on the testing team and telling them