Before Gabriel left, she erased every mortal present's memories of the angels' descent.
Their conversation with Jiang Yang had involved many secrets that mortals could not be allowed to know.
But Gabriel did not simply do nothing. Before leaving, after clearing the mortals' memories,
she pretended to have just descended, appeared before Jiang Yang as an Angels’ Shadow, and gently kissed his forehead.
Although Jiang Yang felt embarrassed to be kissed like this by his newfound "older sister" under everyone's eyes, he would not stop her and rebuff her kindness.
They had not seen each other for countless years: the Fourth Epoch, the Fifth Epoch, the Sixth Epoch-two entire epochs had elapsed between them.
But upon seeing her today, Jiang Yang was certain that Gabriel was still the Gabriel he had once known, unchanged in every way except that she had grown stronger.
After Gabriel left, the statue of the female Seraphim returned to normal.
Bright sunlight streamed down through the stained-glass windows in the church's dome.
The salty, damp wind from the Mediterranean Sea swept across this land ravaged by war since ancient times.
Within the Holy City.
Inside the church.
When Gabriel's Angels’ Shadow appeared before the mortals,
the priests and believers all prostrated themselves in devotion once more.
Fervent hymns immediately rang out within the magnificent church.
And the golden-eyed knight from the East, whose forehead the angel had kissed, became the focus of countless reverent and envious gazes.
Thus, Jiang Yang became "one favored by an angel."
"Gabriel's kiss" became the greatest miracle since the founding of the Kingdom of Jerusalem!
Once the pure white holy light had dispersed, the old priest rose and never again mentioned conversion to the Heavenly Lord.
Did being kissed by an angel not prove something?
Of course, his memories were