The Pope's body rapidly swelled to a full thirty meters, and with a soft pop...
A strange black line appeared in the fleshy growth.
Then the line abruptly opened.
A huge, azure eyeball glowing with white light appeared before everyone.
What kind of eye was it?
Merciless, majestic, terrifying.
Merely looking at it, the believers felt a wild surge of cold dread in their hearts.
A fear originating in the depths of their souls arose unbidden.
But before they could think further or react...
Four fleshy lumps swelled out of the growth-or rather, the fleshy wall of the eyeball-with a series of cracking sounds.
The lumps kept expanding, becoming four pure white wings.
Finally, a scalp-tingling sight appeared.
One eye after another actually began opening on the wings.
There were thousands upon thousands of these eyes, staring at everyone in every direction with incomparably majestic gazes!
The believers involuntarily began trembling all over.
Fear almost overflowed from their hearts, and they opened their mouths to scream.
Fortunately, their minds were linked, and this shock to their souls faded as quickly as it had come.
They soon suppressed it.
Trembling, they murmured:
"So... this is an Ancient Angel... no wonder they are beings specifically meant to terrify and intimidate demons and devils.
Their majesty is enough to make any evil tremble!"
"Ah! Great Ancient Angel... please kill those evil beings!"
"Tremble in fear, fiends!"
The believers shouted wildly.
Worship and fanaticism gradually appeared on their faces.
"What a terrifying thing. What is that?"
Many on the Elf Alliance's side showed disgust, revulsion, and fear.
The knowledgeable Elf Queen knocked back Boliulisi, the Pope of the Earth Mother Goddess Church whom she had been suppressing, with a single blow, then shouted with a grave gaze:
"This is an Ancient Angel, the form