Dazen Gorge.
Wendy, who was conducting the apotheosis ritual, suddenly sensed something, and a burst of divine light surged from his body.
Before him, Aaron's ice-carved divine statue bloomed with dazzling radiance. Its form had already been fixed, transforming into a holy relic!
Divine grace descended!
The next moment, Wendy opened his eyes and spread his hands.
An enormous barrier appeared, shrouding the entire gorge. "Sacred Barrier!"
Within the barrier, everyone let out a long breath. They no longer found the scarlet sunlight in the sky so painfully glaring.
"An instant-cast sixth-circle divine spell?!"
Grise, watching the scene, was dumbfounded.
Being able to instant-cast a sixth-circle divine spell—didn't that mean this Kimo man, originally just a warrior, had become a level-twenty... legendary priest?
Compared to other professions, priests had the lowest requirements. So long as a god was willing to elevate it, even a pig could become a legendary pig!
"Thank you, my Lord!"
Having received divine grace and automatically become the first Pope, Wendy turned to the other believers. "Our Lord has become a true god—one of [Powerful Divine Power]... He has delivered an oracle—The Chaos of Saints will eventually pass, and He will raise His divine kingdom high, bringing an end to all chaos and evil!"
"My Lord!"
Many believers wept bitterly.
Especially the survivors of Dawn; they were the ones who had suffered most under the invasion of [Great Sun Tathagata].
They had been cast adrift through endless hardship, and had even lost their goddess.
Now, upon suddenly hearing that there was hope for the disaster to end, they instantly wept with joy.
"Everyone, let us pray together!"
Wendy forcibly suppressed the excitement and fervor in his heart as he began the final part of the celebration ritual. "Our Lord... Protector of the Kimo People and stories,