The next morning.
Starlight pierced through Meteorite Star's thin atmosphere.
Casting Mystic Star City in a pale golden glow.
Xihua Plaza was already packed with people.
As the venue for the Holy Spirit Cult's once-in-a-decade Saint Appreciation Festival.
This plaza, spanning hundreds of thousands of square meters, had long been decorated as though a Divine Kingdom had descended.
Hundreds of thousands of believers, dressed in white robes, knelt devoutly across the plaza.
Their foreheads pressed against the ground as they muttered prayers, as if welcoming the descent of something sacred.
Above the plaza, hundreds of Holographic Projection devices displayed the Holy Spirit Cult's emblem.
A blooming silver lotus, projected a hundred meters into the sky.
The emblem gleamed beneath the morning light, radiating a dazzling halo.
The ground was covered in red carpets embroidered with sacred patterns, while white jade statues dozens of meters tall stood on either side.
Each one depicted a saint from the Holy Spirit Cult's legends, lifelike in every detail.
A rich fragrance of incense drifted through the air.
Mixed with the believers' fanatical prayers, it created an almost crazed religious atmosphere.
"Great Holy Spirit, grant us eternal life!"
"May the holy light shine forever and cleanse us of our sins!"
"Holy Spirit! Please save us!"
"..."
The believers' cries rose and fell, their voices crashing in wave after wave like the tide.
Amid this sea of fanaticism, three figures stood out conspicuously.
At their head was a tall, upright young man, nearly 1.9 meters in height.
His dark golden Combat Suit outlined the perfect proportions of his broad shoulders and narrow waist.
Beneath his short black hair was a stern, sharply defined face.
Beside him stood an incomparably beautiful elf with cascading silver hair.
She was a head shorter than the young man, standing just