[Hydro Archon: guilty. Death sentence!]
The moment the verdict was announced, the entire audience erupted into an uproar!
No one had imagined that the first-ever death sentence would be handed down to the person they had worshipped as a god.
But regardless, the verdict had confirmed Furina's guilt in impersonating a god.
Furina slumped helplessly in her seat.
At that moment, she was like a puppet without a soul, drained of every trace of life as tears streamed down her face.
It was not the death sentence that had frightened her.
Through five hundred years of perseverance, she had firmly believed that as long as no one suspected her, she could save everyone in Fontaine.
Now, with the verdict announced, all five hundred years of painful perseverance had come to nothing, and her only hope of saving everyone had been shattered.
The feeling of seeing all her efforts go to waste in an instant left her mind utterly blank.
She sat upon her lofty seat without a word, as though something inside her had broken.
Her expression held an indescribable despair at losing the hope she had clung to for five hundred years.
The ground shook violently. Seawater mixed with Primordial Sea Water gushed up from underground, and the water level rose rapidly before their eyes.
At that moment, the prophecy came true.
"Haah..."
Hidden in a corner of the Opera Epiclese, Ellin let out a sigh.
She had witnessed the entire trial.
Seeing Furina in the distance, bereft of all radiance as she wept upon her divine throne like a broken puppet, made Ellin's heart ache.
She desperately wanted to help Furina, but she could not intervene yet.
Quite a few people might not understand Focalors's method of defying the prophecy or the reasoning behind it.