"Great Lord!"
"You are the Spirit of Unknown Void that wanders through the unknown!"
"You are the Absolute Neutral Entity!"
"You are the Silent Observer!"
"Please heed your believer's prayer... Your believer is about to leave Green Forest City and travel to Plymouth to assume the post of cardinal archbishop. I shall surely bear Your name and lead the church that is Your incarnation back toward glory..."
Green Forest City, inside some cheap little hotel with none of the three essentials.
Aaron, lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes. A hazy prayer echoed in his ears.
"This is..."
His expression instantly became incomparably alert as he confirmed that this prayer was not an auditory hallucination, but truly existed!
"This feeling is quite similar to when I heard believers' prayers in the Spirit of Unknown Void state, but back then, I had to be very close... So now, is this... another passive ability of the Furnace?"
Perhaps because there were too few believers, or because they had been too far away, Aaron had never noticed it before.
At that moment, he entered a meditative state, and inspiration immediately surged within him.
A hazy veil of mist appeared before his eyes, seemingly covering most of Green Forest City.
Most of Green Forest City on the "mist map" was vague and indistinct, with only a rough outline visible.
Only at one particular spot was there a pale golden point of light.
Aaron extended his spirituality and touched the point of light.
The next instant, a scene appeared before his eyes—
Inside a train carriage, Nicholas Inam had his fingers interlocked between both hands as he performed his daily prayer.
Beside him, the scenery beyond the train window was constantly flying backward...
"It's Nicholas. He's about to leave Green Forest City...