An unprecedented resolve, fierce and tragic, suddenly blazed in the High Priest's clouded eyes!
So what if his rank had fallen?
So what if his divine power had run dry?
As long as he had a breath left, as long as his heart still beat, he remained the Weeping Madonna's most steadfast sword in this world!
"God said, light shall banish all darkness!"
The High Priest suddenly let out a thunderous roar, his voice brimming with the resolve of a man burning his bridges.
Without hesitation, he raised the Cross Holy Emblem that had accompanied him all his life.
Crack!
Under the shocked gazes of the guards around him, the High Priest summoned every ounce of strength and crushed the holy emblem that symbolized the Divine Hall's supreme authority!
"High Priest! Don't!" the guard captain cried out in anguish.
The High Priest was burning his own life force!
Boom!
As the holy emblem shattered, pure white sacred radiance, more dazzling than daylight, erupted from the High Priest's aged body!
An intensely sickly flush instantly spread across the High Priest's pale face, and his withered, strawlike white hair stood on end in the surging divine power.
"Great Madonna! Please hear your most faithful believer's final prayer!"
"Dispel fear! Restore courageous hearts!"
Hum!
A pure white pillar of light, brilliant as the blazing sun, pierced the thick black fog and the Screaming Golem's mental corruption, then transformed into a precisely directed shower of light that fell upon every player and townsfolk present!
The instant the shower of light descended.
The players' frantically flashing red Sanity warnings vanished, and the suffocating sensation of an icy hand gripping their hearts receded like the tide.
With its source of fear suddenly cut off, the Screaming Golem abruptly stopped growing, and the intense dark red sheen