Backlund's reconstruction had gone far faster than expected. By now, no trace of the bombing remained.
"Have faith in the Holy Light!"
"For Justice!"
"May the Holy Light protect you."
The Silver Hand was active not only on the Southern Continent. With the tacit consent of the orthodox churches, it had even spread here.
Spreading the Holy Light might seem like poaching believers from the Eternal Blazing Sun, but the strange thing was that the Silver Hand welcomed everyone. People could keep faith with other religions, and even those who had once worshiped Evil Gods could embrace the Holy Light.
Whenever anyone asked about it, they gave the same answer: [We don't produce the Holy Light. We're merely its porters.]
Perhaps as a gesture of goodwill toward the Light God, the gods remained tolerant of Uther, the ancient god of the Second Epoch who had once been a Demon Lord and was now the Lightbringer.
"..."
Wait a moment.
Klein stopped just as he was taking out money to buy fried sea fish and potato strips from Pritz Harbor. A question had suddenly occurred to him. Back then, Su Lin had only been an ordinary Light God who could cut an Outer Deity down to size for three minutes. So why...
Why could that guy turn a Demon Lord into a Lord of the Holy Light?
Klein remembered that Su Lin had also transformed the Shadow World, the Sefirah corresponding to the Mother Tree of Desire, into the Holy Light World.
And at the time, Su Lin had only been a Light God with cheats.
"Sir?" someone prompted him.
Klein handed over the menu.
"Sorry. I'll also have a ginger beer with small pancakes and oyster soup, a sweet iced tea, and two strawberry ice creams. Please pack the ice