The Rise of the Starfire Church

"Sure enough, no one who loves fire can be a bad person."

In Bed City, a flame priest of the Starfire Church smiled as he spoke to a believer who had come to make an offering: "May your endeavors receive the Fire God's blessing and blaze fiercely like a fire fed with kindling."

"Gwyn bless you."

The believer murmured the phrase and respectfully offered up a fiery red envelope with both hands. After the flame priest accepted it, he departed with the utmost reverence.

He left this chapel, which could only be entered by those of considerable status, veteran believers, or the fated.

The flame priest who had received him in this chapel was naturally no ordinary member of the Starfire Church, but someone of considerable standing within it.

He had once followed Leon and the Strategy Group in achieving the first clear of Sain Underground City. He had personally reformed the Fire God's name, established Gwyn as the new Fire God, and founded the new branch of the Starfire Church. He could no longer be called a flame priest; he should now be called a bishop.

His name—Jienosong—remained engraved upon the first-clear monument, where it drew the eyes of every passing adventurer.

As long as the monument of Sain Underground City remained, his name would forever be displayed before the public.

This, too, was one of his methods for promoting the Starfire Church!

Since the day they had first cleared Sain Underground City, Jienosong had thrown himself wholeheartedly into the work of his sect.

Though he looked like an old man, his thinking was remarkably youthful. He had reformed the sect's old and outdated rules one by one, purged disunited members with thunderous measures, and personally set about revising its doctrines once more.

After completing a series of internal