"It's simply a miracle!"
Back in the Northern Alliance, on the northwest islands of the Central Plains.
Beside the hastily erected medical camp, the crowd was quiet and orderly.
The local people had been gathered here by Lynn.
To use Holy Light for healing, Lynn had called Ria over to wield Holy Light.
Ria, the only Saintess of the Seven Virtues Family to have been formally invested and crowned.
She was not dressed in gorgeous clothes at the moment, but in a simple white nun's robe.
Most followers of the Goddess in the Central Plains were New Church believers. They had heard of the Saintess, but they had never witnessed a miracle.
They knew that the Northern Continent had always had a Saintess.
Now they were meeting her in person and receiving treatment.
The believers changed their Faith very quickly.
No, they were casting aside evil and returning to righteousness.
Why?
As Ria healed them, a soft halo, almost invisible to the naked eye yet soothing to the believers' hearts, enveloped her. Warm milky-white light glowed from her palms as she gently brushed over an elderly woman's ulcerated leg wound. The festering flesh visibly closed up, and new flesh grew in.
Such a miracle made everyone's eyes widen!
The believers' lips trembled, but they could not form complete words. They merely clutched the crude New Church wooden crosses against their chests, then shakily removed them and gripped them tightly in their palms.
This was the Saintess, the inheritor of the Seven Virtues Bloodline bestowed by the Goddess.
Now that they had seen her, how could they not be shaken?
Similar scenes abounded nearby. Broken bones regrew, raging fevers subsided at once, and chronic ailments that had resisted treatment for years crumbled like ice melting under the Holy Light.
For the