Barbatos's Outrageous Divine Deeds Exposed: Mondstadt Had No Monarch, Sustained Entirely by Faith; the North Wind Wolf King's Last Words Exposed the Truth

Amid the jubilant crowd, someone stopped. He looked up at Barbatos in the sky, then slowly dropped to one knee.

It was not out of fear, nor was it forced submission.

It was the loftiest respect, born from the depths of his heart.

One person, two people, ten people, a hundred people...

More and more people voluntarily knelt before the New God in the sky.

They shouted a name they had only just learned.

"Barbatos!"

"Barbatos!"

At that moment, faith spread through the entire Royal Capital like a wildfire sweeping across the plains.

Before the Light Screen in the Douluo God Realm, there was utter silence.

Everyone was shaken by the pure, heartfelt emotion in the scene.

"So... this is the power of faith?" Tang San murmured.

As a God King, he naturally understood the importance of faith.

But the faith he had seen was more often a kind of transaction, a cycle of prayers and responses.

Mortals prayed for the gods' protection, while deities enjoyed the offerings of mortals.

Yet what was happening on the screen was entirely different.

It was not a plea, but a kind of... recognition.

Recognition of the ideal of "freedom," and the purest gratitude toward Barbatos, who had brought them that freedom.

"What pure power of faith." Rong Nianbing felt it most directly. He himself was the God of Emotion. "There isn't the slightest impurity in it. It is nothing but pure joy, gratitude, and hope."

Ji Dong nodded, his gaze profound. "He liberated them, so they support him. This faith came from his own actions, not the coercion of a divine position."

Lie Yan watched quietly and softly said, "He brought them light, so they followed the light."

Elsewhere, the God Kings also fell into thought.

"Completely improper!" God King Tian Hen frowned.