"Why... huh? I... I'm not dead?"
"What's going on?"
"We're actually alive!!"
"And that feeling of being controlled by the power of faith is gone."
"What is happening?"
Over there, Yahweh had lost his life to the god-slaying strike of the Spear of Longinus, triggering abnormal celestial phenomena that swept across the entire Inner Sea of Stars.
Yet in the great lake of the Angel Reincarnation Pool, the winged girls noticed none of it. Their attention had been entirely captured by something even more extraordinary.
They examined one another's bodies, feeling the state of being "alive," some uncertain and bewildered, others indescribably excited.
Because they had discovered that they were still alive.
Yes, they were the angels Ye Ting had claimed to have "killed."
Ye Ting's lie had been so convincing that it had fooled not only Yahweh, but even the angels themselves—of course, it had to. Since Yahweh had controlled the angels on a spiritual level, telling them the truth would have been no different from telling Yahweh himself.
And when Ye Ting had recited the incantation that supposedly annihilated the angels, they had truly felt themselves die.
But what was going on now?
Thus, led by the archangel Michael, the angels and fallen angels approached Ye Ting one after another to voice their doubts.
Though they still harbored suspicions, Yahweh's death and their own resurrection had made them realize that Ye Ting's earlier "betrayal" had probably been an act. Still, without understanding everything, they remained somewhat at a loss.
"The answer is simple. I can resurrect you because your lives were never based on what you call your 'physical bodies'—bodies formed through the materialization of souls."
Naturally, Ye Ting gave them the answer.
"Your souls and true selves have always existed within the Angel Reincarnation Pool. Or rather,