In the central region of the Sea of Miracles, where the Gate of Glory stood.
Two white city gates towered toward the sky, covered in exquisite reliefs that shone gold in the light.
Anyone who braved the dazzling light to look would discover that these reliefs actually formed a single continuous picture, so extraordinarily intricate that it surpassed human capabilities.
For these monochrome golden reliefs depicted a vivid "world within a painting."
At its very center was a woman as radiant as the stars. Though she had no arms, she gave the impression of an embrace, as though she were embracing the entire world.
Around her were the people gathered close and the towns they had built.
All her people basked in the holy light she radiated, their eyes filled with gratitude.
Some believers even knelt outright, praying devoutly to the goddess at the center.
The closer an area was to the goddess's image, the more prosperous its towns became; conversely, the towns rapidly fell into decline, a reflection of this very world.
At that moment, inside the fortress before the entrance to the Gate of Glory.
A circular Magic Array lit up with white light, growing brighter and brighter. Then a figure emerged: Lionheart Knight Reinhardt, along with his partner-the high-ranking Light Fairy Cui Bisi, who hung from his shoulder armor.
He was also carrying a foolish creature.
It was a giant hairless mole, but with a human head and a nose that could open like a flower. This was the captured commander of the New Humanity Fleet-Ito Sho.
He had woken long ago, but neither resisted nor struggled, because struggling was useless.
And so Reinhardt had carried Ito Sho all the way here like a parcel, even stretching out the skin on the back of his neck.
Fortunately,