Everyone aboard was startled by Archbishop Sonic's sudden appearance. They immediately knelt with Boris, their faces fervent with devotion, as though the one they worshipped was the true deity in their hearts.
"Lost children, you have done well. The great God of Nature will know of your deeds. Keep up your efforts, and the True God's glory will return to the world..." Sonic went on at length about divine matters, but he had used the Mirror Image Art to come aboard for one reason: to inspect the instrument himself and see whether he could pinpoint the location. To his disappointment, it detected Divine Power but still could not determine the source of the Sea God's Divine Power.
Disappointed as he was, Sonic was an old fox who kept his thoughts buried deep. Before the members of the Nature Hermitage, he always played the unshakable Prophet. He treated his followers with patience and kindness, rarely taking his anger out on them. None of them knew that the amiable High Priest Sonic had once sent hundreds of thousands to their deaths for the sake of his ambitions without so much as batting an eye.
Now that High Priest Sonic had absorbed part of the God of Nature's Legacy, he had risen to a new level. He had hidden his claws and taken to playing the kindly divine envoy, much like the people of the Holy Light Church.
Sonic had once gone from scoffing at the Holy Light Church to hating it with a passion. Back then, he probably never imagined he would become the very thing he despised most.
Meanwhile, on Sisoldis Island, Green watched the Sea God festival while hundreds of ravens he had released scanned the island from above. So many ravens appearing at once was rather conspicuous, but the